Top 25 Winning Percentage in 1926 in the American League

Winning Percentage : 1926 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)

1926 Winning Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

George Uhle .711 (.71053) Cleveland Indians 1

Herb Pennock .676 (.67647) New York Yankees 2

Urban Shocker .633 (.63333) New York Yankees 3

Red Faber .625 (.62500) Chicago White Sox 4

Dutch Ruether .609 (.60870) Washington Senators 5

New York Yankees

Joe Shaute .583 (.58333) Cleveland Indians 6

Sam Gibson .571 (.57143) Detroit Tigers 7

Waite Hoyt .571 (.57143) New York Yankees

Ted Blankenship .565 (.56522) Chicago White Sox 9

Stan Coveleski .560 (.56000) Washington Senators 10

Tommy Thomas .556 (.55556) Chicago White Sox 11

Dutch Levsen .552 (.55172) Cleveland Indians 12

Earl Whitehill .552 (.55172) Detroit Tigers

Ed Wells .545 (.54545) Detroit Tigers 14

Sam Jones .529 (.52941) New York Yankees 15

Ted Lyons .529 (.52941) Chicago White Sox

Win Ballou .524 (.52381) St. Louis Browns 17

Sherry Smith .524 (.52381) Cleveland Indians

Howard Ehmke .517 (.51724) Boston Red Sox 19

Philadelphia Athletics

Lefty Grove .500 (.50000) Philadelphia Athletics 20

Eddie Rommel .500 (.50000) Philadelphia Athletics

Walter Johnson .484 (.48387) Washington Senators 22

Tom Zachary .483 (.48276) St. Louis Browns 23

Jack Quinn .476 (.47619) Philadelphia Athletics 24

Elam Vangilder .450 (.45000) St. Louis Browns 25

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

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.

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.

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