Winning Percentage : 1933 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:

"The guys who made up this schedule must have been in a room with a bottle of Wild Turkey and 40 straws." - Dave Bergman
 

1933 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Lefty Grove .750 (.75000) Philadelphia Athletics 1
Russ Van Atta .750 (.75000) New York Yankees  
Earl Whitehill .733 (.73333) Washington Senators 3
Lefty Stewart .714 (.71429) Washington Senators 4
Johnny Allen .682 (.68182) New York Yankees 5
Monte Weaver .667 (.66667) Washington Senators 6
Alvin Crowder .615 (.61538) Washington Senators 7
Lefty Gomez .615 (.61538) New York Yankees  
Oral Hildebrand .593 (.59259) Cleveland Indians 9
Firpo Marberry .593 (.59259) Detroit Tigers  
Hank Johnson .571 (.57143) Boston Red Sox 11
Roy Mahaffey .565 (.56522) Philadelphia Athletics 12
Tommy Bridges .538 (.53846) Detroit Tigers 13
George Pipgras .524 (.52381) New York Yankees 14
Boston Red Sox  
Sugar Cain .520 (.52000) Philadelphia Athletics 15
Clint Brown .478 (.47826) Cleveland Indians 16
Wes Ferrell .478 (.47826) Cleveland Indians  
Mel Harder .469 (.46875) Cleveland Indians 18
Sam Jones .455 (.45455) Chicago White Sox 19
Gordon Rhodes .444 (.44444) Boston Red Sox 20
George Blaeholder .441 (.44118) St. Louis Browns 21
Bump Hadley .429 (.42857) St. Louis Browns 22
Carl Fischer .423 (.42308) Detroit Tigers 23
Vic Sorrell .423 (.42308) Detroit Tigers  
Rube Walberg .409 (.40909) Philadelphia Athletics 25



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?

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).