On Base Percentage : 1926 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1926 On Base Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Paul Waner .413 (.41254) Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Ray Blades .409 (.40900) St. Louis Cardinals 2
Hack Wilson .406 (.40563) Chicago Cubs 3
George Grantham .400 (.40000) Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Dave Bancroft .399 (.39884) Boston Braves 5
Rogers Hornsby .388 (.38776) St. Louis Cardinals 6
Les Bell .383 (.38268) St. Louis Cardinals 7
Kiki Cuyler .380 (.38039) Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Babe Herman .375 (.37523) Brooklyn Robins 9
Taylor Douthit .375 (.37479) St. Louis Cardinals 10
Curt Walker .372 (.37242) Cincinnati Reds 11
Bob O'Farrell .371 (.37071) St. Louis Cardinals 12
Sparky Adams .367 (.36711) Chicago Cubs 13
Edd Roush .366 (.36606) Cincinnati Reds 14
Johnny Mokan .365 (.36527) Philadelphia Phillies 15
Billy Southworth .365 (.36464) New York Giants 16
St. Louis Cardinals  
Jim Bottomley .364 (.36391) St. Louis Cardinals 17
Pie Traynor .361 (.36052) Pittsburgh Pirates 18
Gus Felix .360 (.36008) Brooklyn Robins 19
Eddie Brown .355 (.35479) Boston Braves 20
Frankie Frisch .353 (.35294) New York Giants 21
Cliff Heathcote .353 (.35263) Chicago Cubs 22
George Kelly .352 (.35196) New York Giants 23
Wally Pipp .352 (.35191) Cincinnati Reds 24
Freddy Leach .352 (.35167) Philadelphia Phillies 25



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.

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).