Winning Percentage : 1966 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)
 

1966 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Dave Boswell .706 (.70588) Minnesota Twins 1
Dave McNally .684 (.68421) Baltimore Orioles 2
Sonny Siebert .667 (.66667) Cleveland Indians 3
Jim Kaat .658 (.65789) Minnesota Twins 4
Earl Wilson .621 (.62069) Boston Red Sox 5
Detroit Tigers  
Jim Perry .611 (.61111) Minnesota Twins 6
Lew Krausse .609 (.60870) Kansas City Athletics 7
Jim Palmer .600 (.60000) Baltimore Orioles 8
Denny McLain .588 (.58824) Detroit Tigers 9
Steve Hargan .565 (.56522) Cleveland Indians 10
Tommy John .560 (.56000) Chicago White Sox 11
Gary Peters .545 (.54545) Chicago White Sox 12
Sam McDowell .529 (.52941) Cleveland Indians 13
Fritz Peterson .522 (.52174) New York Yankees 14
George Brunet .500 (.50000) California Angels 15
Mudcat Grant .500 (.50000) Minnesota Twins  
Mickey Lolich .500 (.50000) Detroit Tigers  
Jim Lonborg .500 (.50000) Boston Red Sox  
Phil Ortega .500 (.50000) Washington Senators  
Pete Richert .500 (.50000) Washington Senators  
Fred Talbot .500 (.50000) Kansas City Athletics  
New York Yankees  
Gary Bell .483 (.48276) Cleveland Indians 22
Jose Santiago .480 (.48000) Boston Red Sox 23
Al Downing .476 (.47619) New York Yankees 24
Lee Stange .471 (.47059) Cleveland Indians 25
Boston Red Sox  



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.

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.