1961 Winning Percentage Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Winning Percentage	Team	Rank
Whitey Ford	.862 (.86207)	New York Yankees	1
Ralph Terry	.842 (.84211)	New York Yankees	2
Barry Latman	.722 (.72222)	Cleveland Indians	3
Frank Lary	.719 (.71875)	Detroit Tigers	4
Rollie Sheldon	.688 (.68750)	New York Yankees	5
Don Mossi	.682 (.68182)	Detroit Tigers	6
Don Schwall	.682 (.68182)	Boston Red Sox
Juan Pizarro	.667 (.66667)	Chicago White Sox	8
Hal Brown	.625 (.62500)	Baltimore Orioles	9
Chuck Estrada	.625 (.62500)	Baltimore Orioles
Mudcat Grant	.625 (.62500)	Cleveland Indians
Bill Stafford	.609 (.60870)	New York Yankees	12
Jim Bunning	.607 (.60714)	Detroit Tigers	13
Steve Barber	.600 (.60000)	Baltimore Orioles	14
Milt Pappas	.591 (.59091)	Baltimore Orioles	15
Jack Kralick	.542 (.54167)	Minnesota Twins	16
Billy Pierce	.526 (.52632)	Chicago White Sox	17
Paul Foytack	.524 (.52381)	Detroit Tigers	18
Bennie Daniels	.522 (.52174)	Washington Senators	19
Norm Bass	.500 (.50000)	Kansas City Athletics	20
Dick Donovan	.500 (.50000)	Washington Senators
Ray Herbert	.500 (.50000)	Kansas City Athletics
		Chicago White Sox
Bill Monbouquette	.500 (.50000)	Boston Red Sox
Camilo Pascual	.484 (.48387)	Minnesota Twins	24
Ron Kline	.471 (.47059)	Los Angeles Angels	25
		Detroit Tigers
Name	Winning Percentage	Team	Rank

	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). 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.