Top 25 On Base Percentage in 1914 in the American League

On Base Percentage : 1914 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)

1914 On Base Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

Eddie Collins .452 (.45151) Philadelphia Athletics 1

Tris Speaker .423 (.42290) Boston Red Sox 2

Joe Jackson .399 (.39880) Cleveland Naps 3

Sam Crawford .388 (.38804) Detroit Tigers 4

Frank Baker .380 (.38019) Philadelphia Athletics 5

Eddie Murphy .379 (.37946) Philadelphia Athletics 6

Donie Bush .373 (.37271) Detroit Tigers 7

Tilly Walker .365 (.36538) St. Louis Browns 8

Amos Strunk .364 (.36443) Philadelphia Athletics 9

Jack Graney .362 (.36226) Cleveland Naps 10

Duffy Lewis .357 (.35664) Boston Red Sox 11

Doc Cook .356 (.35564) New York Yankees 12

Ray Morgan .352 (.35169) Washington Senators 13

George Burns .351 (.35057) Detroit Tigers 14

Eddie Foster .348 (.34808) Washington Senators 15

Clyde Milan .346 (.34607) Washington Senators 16

Burt Shotton .344 (.34419) St. Louis Browns 17

Ray Demmitt .344 (.34364) Detroit Tigers 18

Chicago White Sox

Del Pratt .341 (.34119) St. Louis Browns 19

Bobby Veach .341 (.34075) Detroit Tigers 20

Stuffy McInnis .341 (.34057) Philadelphia Athletics 21

Danny Moeller .341 (.34052) Washington Senators 22

Harry Hooper .336 (.33615) Boston Red Sox 23

Roy Hartzell .335 (.33514) New York Yankees 24

Fritz Maisel .334 (.33387) New York Yankees 25

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number.

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

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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