Winning Percentage : 1943 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)
 

1943 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Whit Wyatt .737 (.73684) Brooklyn Dodgers 1
Mort Cooper .724 (.72414) St. Louis Cardinals 2
Rip Sewell .700 (.70000) Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Howie Krist .688 (.68750) St. Louis Cardinals 4
Max Lanier .682 (.68182) St. Louis Cardinals 5
Elmer Riddle .656 (.65625) Cincinnati Reds 6
Schoolboy Rowe .636 (.63636) Philadelphia Phillies 7
Hi Bithorn .600 (.60000) Chicago Cubs 8
Bob Klinger .579 (.57895) Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Kirby Higbe .565 (.56522) Brooklyn Dodgers 10
Hank Wyse .563 (.56250) Chicago Cubs 11
Max Butcher .556 (.55556) Pittsburgh Pirates 12
Claude Passeau .556 (.55556) Chicago Cubs  
Ray Starr .524 (.52381) Cincinnati Reds 14
Al Javery .515 (.51515) Boston Braves 15
Jim Tobin .500 (.50000) Boston Braves 16
Bucky Walters .500 (.50000) Cincinnati Reds  
Johnny Vander Meer .484 (.48387) Cincinnati Reds 18
Wally Hebert .476 (.47619) Pittsburgh Pirates 19
Ed Head .474 (.47368) Brooklyn Dodgers 20
Dick Barrett .435 (.43478) Chicago Cubs 21
Philadelphia Phillies  
Curt Davis .435 (.43478) Brooklyn Dodgers  
Paul Derringer .417 (.41667) Chicago Cubs 23
Nate Andrews .412 (.41176) Boston Braves 24
Cliff Melton .409 (.40909) New York Giants 25



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