Winning Percentage : 1943 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:

"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)
 

1943 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Spud Chandler .833 (.83333) New York Yankees 1
Al Smith .708 (.70833) Cleveland Indians 2
Mickey Haefner .688 (.68750) Washington Senators 3
Nels Potter .667 (.66667) St. Louis Browns 4
Tiny Bonham .652 (.65217) New York Yankees 5
Oscar Judd .647 (.64706) Boston Red Sox 6
Tommy Bridges .632 (.63158) Detroit Tigers 7
Orval Grove .625 (.62500) Chicago White Sox 8
Dizzy Trout .625 (.62500) Detroit Tigers  
Virgil Trucks .615 (.61538) Detroit Tigers 10
Milo Candini .611 (.61111) Washington Senators 11
Hank Borowy .609 (.60870) New York Yankees 12
Early Wynn .600 (.60000) Washington Senators 13
Steve Sundra .577 (.57692) St. Louis Browns 14
Jim Bagby .548 (.54839) Cleveland Indians 15
Bill Dietrich .545 (.54545) Chicago White Sox 16
Butch Wensloff .542 (.54167) New York Yankees 17
Bob Muncrief .520 (.52000) St. Louis Browns 18
Denny Galehouse .500 (.50000) St. Louis Browns 19
Johnny Humphries .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox  
Johnny Niggeling .500 (.50000) St. Louis Browns  
Washington Senators  
Eddie Smith .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox  
Allie Reynolds .478 (.47826) Cleveland Indians 23
Jesse Flores .462 (.46154) Philadelphia Athletics 24
Dutch Leonard .458 (.45833) Washington Senators 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).