Winning Percentage : 1973 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)
 

1973 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Tommy John .696 (.69565) Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Don Gullett .692 (.69231) Cincinnati Reds 2
Ron Bryant .667 (.66667) San Francisco Giants 3
Jack Billingham .655 (.65517) Cincinnati Reds 4
Tom Seaver .655 (.65517) New York Mets  
Don Sutton .643 (.64286) Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Jim Rooker .625 (.62500) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Dave Roberts .607 (.60714) Houston Astros 8
Carl Morton .600 (.60000) Atlanta Braves 9
Claude Osteen .593 (.59259) Los Angeles Dodgers 10
Ken Brett .591 (.59091) Philadelphia Phillies 11
Alan Foster .591 (.59091) St. Louis Cardinals  
Wayne Twitchell .591 (.59091) Philadelphia Phillies  
Reggie Cleveland .583 (.58333) St. Louis Cardinals 14
Andy Messersmith .583 (.58333) Los Angeles Dodgers  
Roric Harrison .579 (.57895) Atlanta Braves 16
Steve Renko .577 (.57692) Montreal Expos 17
Rick Wise .571 (.57143) St. Louis Cardinals 18
Ross Grimsley .565 (.56522) Cincinnati Reds 19
Phil Niekro .565 (.56522) Atlanta Braves  
Mike Marshall .560 (.56000) Montreal Expos 21
Jerry Reuss .552 (.55172) Houston Astros 22
Bob Gibson .545 (.54545) St. Louis Cardinals 23
Ron Schueler .533 (.53333) Atlanta Braves 24
Tom Bradley .520 (.52000) San Francisco Giants 25



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

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

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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