Top 25 Shutouts in 1939 in the National League

Shutouts : 1939 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)

1939 Shutouts Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Shutouts Team Rank

Lou Fette 6 Boston Bees 1

Paul Derringer 5 Cincinnati Reds 2

Bill Posedel 5 Boston Bees

Bill McGee 4 St. Louis Cardinals 4

Curt Davis 3 St. Louis Cardinals 5

Junior Thompson 3 Cincinnati Reds

Bob Weiland 3 St. Louis Cardinals

Bob Bowman 2 St. Louis Cardinals 8

Max Butcher 2 Philadelphia Phillies

Pittsburgh Pirates

Mort Cooper 2 St. Louis Cardinals

Dizzy Dean 2 Chicago Cubs

Larry French 2 Chicago Cubs

Harry Gumbert 2 New York Giants

Luke Hamlin 2 Brooklyn Dodgers

Bob Klinger 2 Pittsburgh Pirates

Cliff Melton 2 New York Giants

Whitey Moore 2 Cincinnati Reds

Claude Passeau 2 Philadelphia Phillies

Chicago Cubs

Tot Pressnell 2 Brooklyn Dodgers

Bucky Walters 2 Cincinnati Reds

Lon Warneke 2 St. Louis Cardinals

Whit Wyatt 2 Brooklyn Dodgers

Joe Bowman 1 Pittsburgh Pirates 23

Mace Brown 1 Pittsburgh Pirates

Carl Doyle 1 Brooklyn Dodgers

Name Shutouts 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.

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.

The most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?

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