On Base Percentage : 1914 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)
 

1914 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Casey Stengel .404 (.40381) Brooklyn Robins 1
George Burns .403 (.40305) New York Giants 2
Gavvy Cravath .402 (.40171) Philadelphia Phillies 3
Miller Huggins .396 (.39614) St. Louis Cardinals 4
Jack Dalton .396 (.39558) Brooklyn Robins 5
Heinie Groh .391 (.39098) Cincinnati Reds 6
Johnny Evers .390 (.38966) Boston Braves 7
Sherry Magee .380 (.38040) Philadelphia Phillies 8
Zack Wheat .377 (.37736) Brooklyn Robins 9
Jake Daubert .375 (.37525) Brooklyn Robins 10
Beals Becker .370 (.37024) Philadelphia Phillies 11
Vic Saier .357 (.35748) Chicago Cubs 12
Tommy Leach .353 (.35312) Chicago Cubs 13
Jim Viox .351 (.35079) Pittsburgh Pirates 14
Butch Schmidt .350 (.35025) Boston Braves 15
Dode Paskert .349 (.34902) Philadelphia Phillies 16
Buck Herzog .348 (.34791) Cincinnati Reds 17
Red Smith .346 (.34615) Brooklyn Robins 18
Boston Braves  
Hans Lobert .343 (.34291) Philadelphia Phillies 19
Larry Doyle .343 (.34267) New York Giants 20
Wilbur Good .341 (.34063) Chicago Cubs 21
Dots Miller .339 (.33929) St. Louis Cardinals 22
Bobby Byrne .339 (.33852) Philadelphia Phillies 23
Lee Magee .337 (.33741) St. Louis Cardinals 24
Bob Bescher .336 (.33570) New York Giants 25



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.

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).

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