Top 25 On Base Percentage in 1912 in the National League

On Base Percentage : 1912 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)

1912 On Base Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name On Base Percentage Team Rank

Johnny Evers .431 (.43141) Chicago Cubs 1

Miller Huggins .422 (.42197) St. Louis Cardinals 2

Dode Paskert .420 (.42006) Philadelphia Phillies 3

Heinie Zimmerman .418 (.41764) Chicago Cubs 4

Bill Sweeney .416 (.41592) Boston Braves 5

John Titus .416 (.41582) Philadelphia Phillies 6

Boston Braves

Honus Wagner .395 (.39486) Pittsburgh Pirates 7

Larry Doyle .393 (.39286) New York Giants 8

Jimmy Sheckard .392 (.39231) Chicago Cubs 9

Ed Konetchy .389 (.38907) St. Louis Cardinals 10

Sherry Magee .388 (.38783) Philadelphia Phillies 11

Bob Bescher .381 (.38148) Cincinnati Reds 12

Fred Merkle .374 (.37429) New York Giants 13

Max Carey .372 (.37213) Pittsburgh Pirates 14

Jake Daubert .369 (.36868) Brooklyn Dodgers 15

Herbie Moran .368 (.36770) Brooklyn Dodgers 16

Zack Wheat .367 (.36747) Brooklyn Dodgers 17

Art Devlin .367 (.36735) Boston Braves 18

Otto Knabe .366 (.36646) Philadelphia Phillies 19

Ed McDonald .363 (.36330) Boston Braves 20

Fred Snodgrass .362 (.36215) New York Giants 21

Red Smith .362 (.36213) Brooklyn Dodgers 22

Bobby Byrne .358 (.35836) Pittsburgh Pirates 23

Gavvy Cravath .358 (.35802) Philadelphia Phillies 24

Steve Evans .353 (.35294) St. Louis Cardinals 25

Name On Base Percentage 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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