Winning Percentage : 1928 National 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)
 

1928 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Larry Benton .735 (.73529) New York Giants 1
Guy Bush .714 (.71429) Chicago Cubs 2
Jesse Haines .714 (.71429) St. Louis Cardinals  
Freddie Fitzsimmons .690 (.68966) New York Giants 4
Dazzy Vance .688 (.68750) Brooklyn Robins 5
Bill Sherdel .677 (.67742) St. Louis Cardinals 6
Art Nehf .650 (.65000) Chicago Cubs 7
Burleigh Grimes .641 (.64103) Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Grover Alexander .640 (.64000) St. Louis Cardinals 9
Percy Jones .625 (.62500) Chicago Cubs 10
Carmen Hill .615 (.61538) Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Sheriff Blake .607 (.60714) Chicago Cubs 12
Red Lucas .591 (.59091) Cincinnati Reds 13
Pat Malone .581 (.58065) Chicago Cubs 14
Flint Rhem .579 (.57895) St. Louis Cardinals 15
Watty Clark .571 (.57143) Brooklyn Robins 16
Ray Kolp .565 (.56522) Cincinnati Reds 17
Joe Genewich .560 (.56000) Boston Braves 18
New York Giants  
Ray Kremer .536 (.53571) Pittsburgh Pirates 19
Dolf Luque .524 (.52381) Cincinnati Reds 20
Eppa Rixey .514 (.51351) Cincinnati Reds 21
Doug McWeeny .500 (.50000) Brooklyn Robins 22
Jesse Petty .500 (.50000) Brooklyn Robins  
Fred Fussell .471 (.47059) Pittsburgh Pirates 24
Clarence Mitchell .471 (.47059) Philadelphia Phillies  
St. Louis Cardinals  



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?

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