Winning Percentage : 1941 American League Top 25

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1941 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League
Lefty Gomez .750 (.75000) New York Yankees 1
Al Benton .714 (.71429) Detroit Tigers 2
Spud Chandler .714 (.71429) New York Yankees  
Red Ruffing .714 (.71429) New York Yankees  
Thornton Lee .667 (.66667) Chicago White Sox 5
Bob Feller .658 (.65789) Cleveland Indians 6
Dick Newsome .655 (.65517) Boston Red Sox 7
Atley Donald .643 (.64286) New York Yankees 8
Charlie Wagner .600 (.60000) Boston Red Sox 9
Bob Muncrief .591 (.59091) St. Louis Browns 10
Marius Russo .583 (.58333) New York Yankees 11
Dutch Leonard .581 (.58065) Washington Senators 12
Ted Lyons .545 (.54545) Chicago White Sox 13
Jack Knott .542 (.54167) Philadelphia Athletics 14
Johnny Rigney .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox 15
Elden Auker .483 (.48276) St. Louis Browns 16
Sid Hudson .481 (.48148) Washington Senators 17
Al Smith .480 (.48000) Cleveland Indians 18
Denny Galehouse .474 (.47368) St. Louis Browns 19
Bob Harris .462 (.46154) St. Louis Browns 20
Johnny Gorsica .450 (.45000) Detroit Tigers 21
Hal Newhouser .450 (.45000) Detroit Tigers  
Johnny Niggeling .438 (.43750) St. Louis Browns 23
Eddie Smith .433 (.43333) Chicago White Sox 24
Les McCrabb .409 (.40909) 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.

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.

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).
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