Winning Percentage : 1922 American 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:

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1922 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Joe Bush .788 (.78788) New York Yankees 1
Ray Kolp .778 (.77778) St. Louis Browns 2
Eddie Rommel .675 (.67500) Philadelphia Athletics 3
Dixie Davis .647 (.64706) St. Louis Browns 4
Bob Shawkey .625 (.62500) New York Yankees 5
Waite Hoyt .613 (.61290) New York Yankees 6
Herman Pillette .613 (.61290) Detroit Tigers  
Guy Morton .609 (.60870) Cleveland Indians 8
Tom Zachary .600 (.60000) Washington Senators 9
Elam Vangilder .594 (.59375) St. Louis Browns 10
Urban Shocker .585 (.58537) St. Louis Browns 11
George Mogridge .581 (.58065) Washington Senators 12
George Uhle .579 (.57895) Cleveland Indians 13
Dixie Leverett .565 (.56522) Chicago White Sox 14
Rasty Wright .563 (.56250) St. Louis Browns 15
Rip Collins .560 (.56000) Boston Red Sox 16
Red Faber .553 (.55263) Chicago White Sox 17
Stan Coveleski .548 (.54839) Cleveland Indians 18
Hooks Dauss .500 (.50000) Detroit Tigers 19
Howard Ehmke .500 (.50000) Detroit Tigers  
Sam Jones .500 (.50000) New York Yankees  
Walter Johnson .484 (.48387) Washington Senators 22
Charlie Robertson .483 (.48276) Chicago White Sox 23
Carl Mays .462 (.46154) New York Yankees 24
Jack Quinn .448 (.44828) Boston Red Sox 25



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.

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.