Winning Percentage : 1964 American League Top 25

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1964 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the American League

Wally Bunker .792 (.79167) Baltimore Orioles 1
Whitey Ford .739 (.73913) New York Yankees 2
Gary Peters .714 (.71429) Chicago White Sox 3
Milt Pappas .696 (.69565) Baltimore Orioles 4
Dean Chance .690 (.68966) Los Angeles Angels 5
Juan Pizarro .679 (.67857) Chicago White Sox 6
Mickey Lolich .667 (.66667) Detroit Tigers 7
Robin Roberts .650 (.65000) Baltimore Orioles 8
Sam McDowell .647 (.64706) Cleveland Indians 9
Jack Kralick .632 (.63158) Cleveland Indians 10
Al Downing .619 (.61905) New York Yankees 11
Dave Wickersham .613 (.61290) Detroit Tigers 12
Jim Kaat .607 (.60714) Minnesota Twins 13
Joe Horlen .591 (.59091) Chicago White Sox 14
Jim Bouton .581 (.58065) New York Yankees 15
Fred Newman .565 (.56522) Los Angeles Angels 16
John Buzhardt .556 (.55556) Chicago White Sox 17
Camilo Pascual .556 (.55556) Minnesota Twins  
Claude Osteen .536 (.53571) Washington Senators 19
Mudcat Grant .519 (.51852) Cleveland Indians 20
Minnesota Twins  
Bill Monbouquette .481 (.48148) Boston Red Sox 21
Earl Wilson .478 (.47826) Boston Red Sox 22
Orlando Pena .462 (.46154) Kansas City Athletics 23
Bennie Daniels .444 (.44444) Washington Senators 24
John O'Donoghue .417 (.41667) Kansas City Athletics 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.

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.

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).