Winning Percentage : 1919 American League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1919 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Eddie Cicotte .806 (.80556) Chicago White Sox 1
Hooks Dauss .700 (.70000) Detroit Tigers 2
Lefty Williams .676 (.67647) Chicago White Sox 3
Stan Coveleski .667 (.66667) Cleveland Indians 4
Herb Pennock .667 (.66667) Boston Red Sox  
Dickey Kerr .650 (.65000) Chicago White Sox 6
Bob Shawkey .645 (.64516) New York Yankees 7
Howard Ehmke .630 (.62963) Detroit Tigers 8
Allen Russell .625 (.62500) New York Yankees 9
Boston Red Sox  
Jim Bagby .607 (.60714) Cleveland Indians 10
Allen Sothoron .606 (.60606) St. Louis Browns 11
Walter Johnson .588 (.58824) Washington Senators 12
George Mogridge .588 (.58824) New York Yankees  
Red Faber .550 (.55000) Chicago White Sox 14
Hank Thormahlen .545 (.54545) New York Yankees 15
Urban Shocker .542 (.54167) St. Louis Browns 16
Dutch Leonard .519 (.51852) Detroit Tigers 17
Jack Quinn .517 (.51724) New York Yankees 18
Carl Mays .500 (.50000) Boston Red Sox 19
New York Yankees  
Jim Shaw .500 (.50000) Washington Senators  
Bernie Boland .467 (.46667) Detroit Tigers 21
Bert Gallia .462 (.46154) St. Louis Browns 22
Jing Johnson .375 (.37500) Philadelphia Athletics 23
Sam Jones .375 (.37500) Boston Red Sox  
Walt Kinney .375 (.37500) Philadelphia Athletics  



Future Hall of Famer Sammy Sosa is best known for wearing number twenty-one; however, when the young slugger played for the Chicago White Sox (1989-1991) he only wore number twenty-five.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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.