Winning Percentage : 1913 American 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)
 

1913 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Walter Johnson .837 (.83721) Washington Senators 1
Joe Bush .714 (.71429) Philadelphia Athletics 2
Joe Boehling .708 (.70833) Washington Senators 3
Ray Collins .704 (.70370) Boston Red Sox 4
Byron Houck .700 (.70000) Philadelphia Athletics 5
Cy Falkenberg .697 (.69697) Cleveland Naps 6
Chief Bender .677 (.67742) Philadelphia Athletics 7
Eddie Plank .643 (.64286) Philadelphia Athletics 8
Willie Mitchell .636 (.63636) Cleveland Naps 9
Boardwalk Brown .607 (.60714) Philadelphia Athletics 10
Vean Gregg .606 (.60606) Cleveland Naps 11
Fred Blanding .600 (.60000) Cleveland Naps 12
Eddie Cicotte .600 (.60000) Chicago White Sox  
Reb Russell .579 (.57895) Chicago White Sox 14
Ray Caldwell .529 (.52941) New York Yankees 15
Hooks Dauss .520 (.52000) Detroit Tigers 16
Earl Hamilton .520 (.52000) St. Louis Browns  
Hugh Bedient .517 (.51724) Boston Red Sox 18
Jean Dubuc .517 (.51724) Detroit Tigers  
Bob Groom .500 (.50000) Washington Senators 20
Jim Scott .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox  
Ed Willett .481 (.48148) Detroit Tigers 22
Joe Engel .471 (.47059) Washington Senators 23
Dutch Leonard .467 (.46667) Boston Red Sox 24
Marc Hall .455 (.45455) Detroit Tigers 25



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).

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 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?