Top 25 Winning Percentage in 1882 in the National League

Winning Percentage : 1882 National 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)

1882 Winning Percentage Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

Larry Corcoran .692 (.69231) Chicago White Stockings 1

Old Hoss Radbourn .623 (.62264) Providence Grays 2

Fred Goldsmith .622 (.62222) Chicago White Stockings 3

John Ward .613 (.61290) Providence Grays 4

Bobby Mathews .559 (.55882) Boston Red Caps 5

Stump Wiedman .556 (.55556) Detroit Wolverines 6

Pud Galvin .549 (.54902) Buffalo Bisons 7

Jim McCormick .545 (.54545) Cleveland Blues 8

Jim Whitney .533 (.53333) Boston Red Caps 9

Hugh Daily .517 (.51724) Buffalo Bisons 10

Mickey Welch .467 (.46667) Troy Trojans 11

George Derby .459 (.45946) Detroit Wolverines 12

George Bradley .400 (.40000) Cleveland Blues 13

Jim Egan .400 (.40000) Troy Trojans

Tim Keefe .395 (.39535) Troy Trojans 15

Lee Richmond .298 (.29787) Worcester Ruby Legs 16

Frank Mountain .154 (.15385) Worcester Ruby Legs 17

Fred Corey .071 (.07143) Worcester Ruby Legs 18

Name Winning Percentage Team Rank

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.

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?

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