Winning Percentage : 1939 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:

"What people don't understand is, one day off for Cal Ripken would not recharge his batteries. One day would not do it. He's not playing 2,130 games in a row. Cal is ONLY playing 162 games a year." - Frank Robinson in The Sporting News (September 11, 1995)
 

1939 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Atley Donald .813 (.81250) New York Yankees 1
Lefty Grove .789 (.78947) Boston Red Sox 2
Red Ruffing .750 (.75000) New York Yankees 3
Bob Feller .727 (.72727) Cleveland Indians 4
Dutch Leonard .714 (.71429) Washington Senators 5
Tommy Bridges .708 (.70833) Detroit Tigers 6
Ted Lyons .700 (.70000) Chicago White Sox 7
Bump Hadley .667 (.66667) New York Yankees 8
Johnny Rigney .652 (.65217) Chicago White Sox 9
Bobo Newsom .645 (.64516) St. Louis Browns 10
Detroit Tigers  
Mel Harder .625 (.62500) Cleveland Indians 11
Fritz Ostermueller .611 (.61111) Boston Red Sox 12
Lefty Gomez .600 (.60000) New York Yankees 13
Thornton Lee .577 (.57692) Chicago White Sox 14
Johnny Allen .563 (.56250) Cleveland Indians 15
Al Milnar .538 (.53846) Cleveland Indians 16
Jack Wilson .500 (.50000) Boston Red Sox 17
Eddie Smith .476 (.47619) Philadelphia Athletics 18
Chicago White Sox  
Dizzy Trout .474 (.47368) Detroit Tigers 19
Schoolboy Rowe .455 (.45455) Detroit Tigers 20
Lynn Nelson .435 (.43478) Philadelphia Athletics 21
Joe Haynes .400 (.40000) Washington Senators 22
Nels Potter .400 (.40000) Philadelphia Athletics  
Joe Krakauskas .393 (.39286) Washington Senators 24
Bill Beckmann .389 (.38889) Philadelphia Athletics 25



Did you know that more than forty players have worn the number twenty-five for the Boston Red Sox — including Jack Clark, Denny Galehouse, Dizzy Trout and Tony Conigliaro.

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

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.