Winning Percentage : 1946 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)
 

1946 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Dave Ferriss .806 (.80645) Boston Red Sox 1
Hal Newhouser .743 (.74286) Detroit Tigers 2
Spud Chandler .714 (.71429) New York Yankees 3
Mickey Harris .654 (.65385) Boston Red Sox 4
Joe Dobson .650 (.65000) Boston Red Sox 5
Tex Hughson .645 (.64516) Boston Red Sox 6
Bob Feller .634 (.63415) Cleveland Indians 7
Virgil Trucks .609 (.60870) Detroit Tigers 8
Dizzy Trout .567 (.56667) Detroit Tigers 9
Jesse Flores .563 (.56250) Philadelphia Athletics 10
Mickey Haefner .560 (.56000) Washington Senators 11
Fred Hutchinson .560 (.56000) Detroit Tigers  
Bill Bevens .552 (.55172) New York Yankees 13
Jack Kramer .542 (.54167) St. Louis Browns 14
Bobo Newsom .519 (.51852) Philadelphia Athletics 15
Washington Senators  
Dutch Leonard .500 (.50000) Washington Senators 16
Ed Lopat .500 (.50000) Chicago White Sox  
Sam Zoldak .450 (.45000) St. Louis Browns 18
Phil Marchildon .448 (.44828) Philadelphia Athletics 19
Joe Haynes .438 (.43750) Chicago White Sox 20
Allie Reynolds .423 (.42308) Cleveland Indians 21
Red Embree .400 (.40000) Cleveland Indians 22
Denny Galehouse .400 (.40000) St. Louis Browns  
Ray Scarborough .389 (.38889) Washington Senators 24
Orval Grove .381 (.38095) Chicago White Sox 25



The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry.

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.

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.