Top 25 Winning Percentage in 1910 in the American League

Winning Percentage : 1910 American League Top 25

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"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1910 Winning Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

Chief Bender .821 (.82143) Philadelphia Athletics 1

Russ Ford .813 (.81250) New York Highlanders 2

Jack Coombs .775 (.77500) Philadelphia Athletics 3

Bill Donovan .708 (.70833) Detroit Tigers 4

Charlie Smith .647 (.64706) Boston Red Sox 5

George Mullin .636 (.63636) Detroit Tigers 6

Eddie Plank .615 (.61538) Philadelphia Athletics 7

Ed Karger .611 (.61111) Boston Red Sox 8

Willie Mitchell .600 (.60000) Cleveland Naps 9

Cy Morgan .600 (.60000) Philadelphia Athletics

Jack Quinn .600 (.60000) New York Highlanders

Walter Johnson .595 (.59524) Washington Senators 12

Ed Willett .593 (.59259) Detroit Tigers 13

Eddie Cicotte .577 (.57692) Boston Red Sox 14

Charley Hall .571 (.57143) Boston Red Sox 15

Ray Collins .542 (.54167) Boston Red Sox 16

Hippo Vaughn .542 (.54167) New York Highlanders

Doc White .536 (.53571) Chicago White Sox 18

Ed Summers .520 (.52000) Detroit Tigers 19

Cy Falkenberg .519 (.51852) Cleveland Naps 20

Doc Reisling .500 (.50000) Washington Senators 21

Dixie Walker .500 (.50000) Washington Senators

Jack Warhop .500 (.50000) New York Highlanders

Joe Wood .480 (.48000) Boston Red Sox 24

Ed Walsh .474 (.47368) Chicago White Sox 25

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number.

The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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