Top 25 Winning Percentage in 1955 in the American League

Winning Percentage : 1955 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)

1955 Winning Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the American League

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

Tommy Byrne .762 (.76190) New York Yankees 1

Whitey Ford .720 (.72000) New York Yankees 2

Billy Hoeft .696 (.69565) Detroit Tigers 3

Bob Lemon .643 (.64286) Cleveland Indians 4

Dick Donovan .625 (.62500) Chicago White Sox 5

Virgil Trucks .619 (.61905) Chicago White Sox 6

Herb Score .615 (.61538) Cleveland Indians 7

Jack Harshman .611 (.61111) Chicago White Sox 8

Early Wynn .607 (.60714) Cleveland Indians 9

Billy Pierce .600 (.60000) Chicago White Sox 10

Frank Sullivan .581 (.58065) Boston Red Sox 11

Alex Kellner .579 (.57895) Kansas City Athletics 12

Bob Turley .567 (.56667) New York Yankees 13

Steve Gromek .565 (.56522) Detroit Tigers 14

Willard Nixon .545 (.54545) Boston Red Sox 15

Tom Brewer .524 (.52381) Boston Red Sox 16

Art Ditmar .500 (.50000) Kansas City Athletics 17

Mickey McDermott .500 (.50000) Washington Senators

Frank Lary .483 (.48276) Detroit Tigers 19

Harry Byrd .467 (.46667) Baltimore Orioles 20

Chicago White Sox

Mike Garcia .458 (.45833) Cleveland Indians 21

Ned Garver .429 (.42857) Detroit Tigers 22

Johnny Schmitz .412 (.41176) Washington Senators 23

Jim Wilson .400 (.40000) Baltimore Orioles 24

Bob Porterfield .370 (.37037) Washington Senators 25

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

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.

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

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