Top 25 Wins in 1940 in the National League

Wins : 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 Wins Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Wins Team Rank

Bucky Walters 22 Cincinnati Reds 1

Paul Derringer 20 Cincinnati Reds 2

Claude Passeau 20 Chicago Cubs

Freddie Fitzsimmons 16 Brooklyn Dodgers 4

Bill McGee 16 St. Louis Cardinals

Rip Sewell 16 Pittsburgh Pirates

Junior Thompson 16 Cincinnati Reds

Lon Warneke 16 St. Louis Cardinals

Whit Wyatt 15 Brooklyn Dodgers 9

Larry French 14 Chicago Cubs 10

Kirby Higbe 14 Philadelphia Phillies

Jim Turner 14 Cincinnati Reds

Hugh Mulcahy 13 Philadelphia Phillies 13

Vern Olsen 13 Chicago Cubs

Hal Schumacher 13 New York Giants

Clyde Shoun 13 St. Louis Cardinals

Joe Beggs 12 Cincinnati Reds 17

Dick Errickson 12 Boston Bees

Harry Gumbert 12 New York Giants

Bill Posedel 12 Boston Bees

Hugh Casey 11 Brooklyn Dodgers 21

Mort Cooper 11 St. Louis Cardinals

Carl Hubbell 11 New York Giants

Mace Brown 10 Pittsburgh Pirates 24

Bill Lohrman 10 New York Giants

Name Wins 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.

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

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.

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