Top 25 Winning Percentage in 1920 in the American League

Winning Percentage : 1920 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)

1920 Winning Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

Jim Bagby .721 (.72093) Cleveland Indians 1

Carl Mays .703 (.70270) New York Yankees 2

Dickey Kerr .700 (.70000) Chicago White Sox 3

Elmer Myers .688 (.68750) Cleveland Indians 4

Boston Red Sox

Eddie Cicotte .677 (.67742) Chicago White Sox 5

Ray Caldwell .667 (.66667) Cleveland Indians 6

Urban Shocker .667 (.66667) St. Louis Browns

Jack Quinn .643 (.64286) New York Yankees 8

Red Faber .639 (.63889) Chicago White Sox 9

Rip Collins .636 (.63636) New York Yankees 10

Stan Coveleski .632 (.63158) Cleveland Indians 11

Lefty Williams .611 (.61111) Chicago White Sox 12

Bob Shawkey .606 (.60606) New York Yankees 13

Dixie Davis .600 (.60000) St. Louis Browns 14

Herb Pennock .552 (.55172) Boston Red Sox 15

Joe Bush .500 (.50000) Boston Red Sox 16

Eddie Rommel .500 (.50000) Philadelphia Athletics

Tom Zachary .484 (.48387) Washington Senators 18

Howard Ehmke .455 (.45455) Detroit Tigers 19

Sam Jones .448 (.44828) Boston Red Sox 20

Eric Erickson .429 (.42857) Washington Senators 21

Harry Courtney .421 (.42105) Washington Senators 22

Carl Weilman .409 (.40909) St. Louis Browns 23

Slim Harriss .391 (.39130) Philadelphia Athletics 24

Hooks Dauss .382 (.38235) Detroit Tigers 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).

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.

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.

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