Winning Percentage : 1915 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)
 

1915 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Joe Wood .750 (.75000) Boston Red Sox 1
Rube Foster .704 (.70370) Boston Red Sox 2
Ernie Shore .704 (.70370) Boston Red Sox  
Babe Ruth .692 (.69231) Boston Red Sox 4
Jim Scott .686 (.68571) Chicago White Sox 5
Dutch Leonard .682 (.68182) Boston Red Sox 6
Walter Johnson .675 (.67500) Washington Senators 7
Bernie Boland .650 (.65000) Detroit Tigers 8
Hooks Dauss .649 (.64865) Detroit Tigers 9
Red Faber .632 (.63158) Chicago White Sox 10
Harry Coveleski .629 (.62857) Detroit Tigers 11
Ray Fisher .621 (.62069) New York Yankees 12
Doc Ayers .609 (.60870) Washington Senators 13
Bert Gallia .607 (.60714) Washington Senators 14
Jean Dubuc .586 (.58621) Detroit Tigers 15
Joe Benz .577 (.57692) Chicago White Sox 16
Ray Caldwell .543 (.54286) New York Yankees 17
Reb Russell .524 (.52381) Chicago White Sox 18
Eddie Cicotte .520 (.52000) Chicago White Sox 19
Joe Boehling .519 (.51852) Washington Senators 20
Bill James .519 (.51852) St. Louis Browns  
Detroit Tigers  
Guy Morton .516 (.51613) Cleveland Indians 22
Carl Weilman .486 (.48649) St. Louis Browns 23
Willie Mitchell .440 (.44000) Cleveland Indians 24
Bob Shawkey .435 (.43478) Philadelphia Athletics 25
New York Yankees  



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.