Winning Percentage : 1930 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:

"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)
 

1930 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Lefty Grove .848 (.84848) Philadelphia Athletics 1
Firpo Marberry .750 (.75000) Washington Senators 2
Bill Shores .750 (.75000) Philadelphia Athletics  
Sam Jones .682 (.68182) Washington Senators 4
Wes Ferrell .658 (.65789) Cleveland Indians 5
Red Ruffing .652 (.65217) Boston Red Sox 6
New York Yankees  
Roy Mahaffey .643 (.64286) Philadelphia Athletics 7
George Earnshaw .629 (.62857) Philadelphia Athletics 8
Lefty Stewart .625 (.62500) St. Louis Browns 9
Herb Pennock .611 (.61111) New York Yankees 10
Ted Lyons .595 (.59459) Chicago White Sox 11
Vic Sorrell .593 (.59259) Detroit Tigers 12
Bump Hadley .577 (.57692) Washington Senators 13
Lloyd Brown .571 (.57143) Washington Senators 14
Earl Whitehill .567 (.56667) Detroit Tigers 15
Rip Collins .563 (.56250) St. Louis Browns 16
Hank Johnson .560 (.56000) New York Yankees 17
Alvin Crowder .529 (.52941) St. Louis Browns 18
Washington Senators  
Mel Harder .524 (.52381) Cleveland Indians 19
Waite Hoyt .524 (.52381) New York Yankees  
Detroit Tigers  
Rube Walberg .520 (.52000) Philadelphia Athletics 21
Pat Caraway .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox 22
George Pipgras .500 (.50000) New York Yankees  
George Uhle .500 (.50000) Detroit Tigers  
Roy Sherid .480 (.48000) New York Yankees 25



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.

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).

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?