Top 25 Earned Run Average in 1941 in the American League

Earned Run Average : 1941 American 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)

1941 Earned Run Average Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Earned Run Average Team Rank

Thornton Lee 2.37 (2.3674) Chicago White Sox 1

Al Benton 2.97 (2.9683) Detroit Tigers 2

Charlie Wagner 3.07 (3.0747) Boston Red Sox 3

Marius Russo 3.09 (3.0906) New York Yankees 4

Bob Feller 3.15 (3.1487) Cleveland Indians 5

Eddie Smith 3.18 (3.1785) Chicago White Sox 6

Spud Chandler 3.19 (3.1894) New York Yankees 7

Mickey Harris 3.25 (3.2474) Boston Red Sox 8

Dutch Leonard 3.45 (3.4453) Washington Senators 9

Sid Hudson 3.46 (3.4606) Washington Senators 10

Red Ruffing 3.54 (3.5386) New York Yankees 11

Atley Donald 3.57 (3.5660) New York Yankees 12

Phil Marchildon 3.57 (3.5677) Philadelphia Athletics 13

Denny Galehouse 3.64 (3.6410) St. Louis Browns 14

Bob Muncrief 3.65 (3.6532) St. Louis Browns 15

Ted Lyons 3.70 (3.6993) Chicago White Sox 16

Lefty Gomez 3.74 (3.7420) New York Yankees 17

Johnny Niggeling 3.80 (3.7960) St. Louis Browns 18

Al Smith 3.83 (3.8323) Cleveland Indians 19

Johnny Rigney 3.84 (3.8354) Chicago White Sox 20

Jim Bagby 4.04 (4.0365) Cleveland Indians 21

Dick Newsome 4.13 (4.1279) Boston Red Sox 22

Al Milnar 4.36 (4.3561) Cleveland Indians 23

Jack Knott 4.40 (4.3997) Philadelphia Athletics 24

Johnny Gorsica 4.47 (4.4737) Detroit Tigers 25

Name Earned Run Average 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.

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).

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.

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