Wins : 1938 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:

"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)
 

1938 Wins Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Bill Lee 22 Chicago Cubs 1
Paul Derringer 21 Cincinnati Reds 2
Clay Bryant 19 Chicago Cubs 3
Bob Weiland 16 St. Louis Cardinals 4
Mace Brown 15 Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Harry Gumbert 15 New York Giants  
Johnny Vander Meer 15 Cincinnati Reds  
Bucky Walters 15 Philadelphia Phillies  
Cincinnati Reds  
Danny MacFayden 14 Boston Bees 9
Cliff Melton 14 New York Giants  
Jim Tobin 14 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Jim Turner 14 Boston Bees  
Russ Bauers 13 Pittsburgh Pirates 13
Carl Hubbell 13 New York Giants  
Hal Schumacher 13 New York Giants  
Lon Warneke 13 St. Louis Cardinals  
Curt Davis 12 St. Louis Cardinals 17
Luke Hamlin 12 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Bob Klinger 12 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Vito Tamulis 12 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Cy Blanton 11 Pittsburgh Pirates 21
Lou Fette 11 Boston Bees  
Freddie Fitzsimmons 11 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Claude Passeau 11 Philadelphia Phillies  
Tot Pressnell 11 Brooklyn Dodgers  



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.

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