Winning Percentage : 1905 National League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1905 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Sam Leever .800 (.80000) Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Christy Mathewson .775 (.77500) New York Giants 2
Red Ames .733 (.73333) New York Giants 3
Carl Lundgren .722 (.72222) Chicago Cubs 4
Hooks Wiltse .714 (.71429) New York Giants 5
Bob Wicker .684 (.68421) Chicago Cubs 6
Mike Lynch .680 (.68000) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Bob Ewing .645 (.64516) Cincinnati Reds 8
Dummy Taylor .640 (.64000) New York Giants 9
Togie Pittinger .622 (.62162) Philadelphia Phillies 10
Deacon Phillippe .606 (.60606) Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Mordecai Brown .600 (.60000) Chicago Cubs 12
Jake Weimer .600 (.60000) Chicago Cubs  
Joe McGinnity .583 (.58333) New York Giants 14
Ed Reulbach .563 (.56250) Chicago Cubs 15
Tully Sparks .560 (.56000) Philadelphia Phillies 16
Doc Scanlan .538 (.53846) Brooklyn Superbas 17
Bill Duggleby .514 (.51429) Philadelphia Phillies 18
Buttons Briggs .500 (.50000) Chicago Cubs 19
Charlie Case .500 (.50000) Pittsburgh Pirates  
Charlie Chech .500 (.50000) Cincinnati Reds  
Patsy Flaherty .500 (.50000) Pittsburgh Pirates  
Kid Nichols .500 (.50000) St. Louis Cardinals  
Philadelphia Phillies  
Irv Young .488 (.48780) Boston Beaneaters 24
Jake Thielman .484 (.48387) St. Louis Cardinals 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.

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