Top 25 Winning Percentage in 1881 in the National League

Winning Percentage : 1881 National League Top 25

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"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)

1881 Winning Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

Blondie Purcell .800 (.80000) Buffalo Bisons 1

Old Hoss Radbourn .694 (.69444) Providence Grays 2

Larry Corcoran .689 (.68889) Chicago White Stockings 3

Fred Goldsmith .649 (.64865) Chicago White Stockings 4

Stump Wiedman .615 (.61538) Detroit Wolverines 5

Pud Galvin .538 (.53846) Buffalo Bisons 6

Mickey Welch .538 (.53846) Troy Trojans

George Derby .527 (.52727) Detroit Wolverines 8

Jack Lynch .526 (.52632) Buffalo Bisons 9

John Ward .500 (.50000) Providence Grays 10

Lee Richmond .490 (.49020) Worcester Ruby Legs 11

Jim Whitney .484 (.48438) Boston Red Caps 12

Jim McCormick .464 (.46429) Cleveland Blues 13

John Fox .429 (.42857) Boston Red Caps 14

Frank Mountain .429 (.42857) Detroit Wolverines

Tim Keefe .400 (.40000) Troy Trojans 16

Bobby Mathews .385 (.38462) Providence Grays 17

Boston Red Caps

The Only Nolan .364 (.36364) Cleveland Blues 18

Fred Corey .286 (.28571) Worcester Ruby Legs 19

Harry McCormick .111 (.11111) Worcester Ruby Legs 20

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

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

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.

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.

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