Top 25 Shutouts in 1940 in the National League

Shutouts : 1940 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)

1940 Shutouts Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Shutouts Team Rank

Manny Salvo 5 Boston Bees 1

Whit Wyatt 5 Brooklyn Dodgers

Freddie Fitzsimmons 4 Brooklyn Dodgers 3

Bill Lohrman 4 New York Giants

Vern Olsen 4 Chicago Cubs

Claude Passeau 4 Chicago Cubs

Mort Cooper 3 St. Louis Cardinals 7

Paul Derringer 3 Cincinnati Reds

Dick Errickson 3 Boston Bees

Larry French 3 Chicago Cubs

Bill McGee 3 St. Louis Cardinals

Hugh Mulcahy 3 Philadelphia Phillies

Junior Thompson 3 Cincinnati Reds

Bucky Walters 3 Cincinnati Reds

Max Butcher 2 Pittsburgh Pirates 15

Hugh Casey 2 Brooklyn Dodgers

Harry Gumbert 2 New York Giants

Luke Hamlin 2 Brooklyn Dodgers

Ken Heintzelman 2 Pittsburgh Pirates

Carl Hubbell 2 New York Giants

Max Lanier 2 St. Louis Cardinals

Rip Sewell 2 Pittsburgh Pirates

Mace Brown 1 Pittsburgh Pirates 23

Tex Carleton 1 Brooklyn Dodgers

Tom Earley 1 Boston Bees

Name Shutouts 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.

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.

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

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