Winning Percentage : 1908 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:

"When you're playing 162 baseball games, you're playing almost every day, it's nice to have a guy (Jose Lima) like that around to lighten things up and have fun. It's a huge plus for us." - Detroit Tigers Pitcher Matt Anderson
 

1908 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Ed Reulbach .774 (.77419) Chicago Cubs 1
Christy Mathewson .771 (.77083) New York Giants 2
Mordecai Brown .763 (.76316) Chicago Cubs 3
Nick Maddox .742 (.74194) Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Sam Leever .682 (.68182) Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Vic Willis .676 (.67647) Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Howie Camnitz .640 (.64000) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Hooks Wiltse .622 (.62162) New York Giants 8
Joe McGinnity .611 (.61111) New York Giants 9
Bob Spade .586 (.58621) Cincinnati Reds 10
Frank Corridon .583 (.58333) Philadelphia Phillies 11
Orval Overall .577 (.57692) Chicago Cubs 12
George McQuillan .575 (.57500) Philadelphia Phillies 13
Chick Fraser .550 (.55000) Chicago Cubs 14
Jack Pfiester .545 (.54545) Chicago Cubs 15
Bob Ewing .531 (.53125) Cincinnati Reds 16
Lefty Leifield .517 (.51724) Pittsburgh Pirates 17
Tully Sparks .516 (.51613) Philadelphia Phillies 18
Doc Crandall .500 (.50000) New York Giants 19
George Ferguson .500 (.50000) Boston Doves  
Billy Campbell .480 (.48000) Cincinnati Reds 21
Nap Rucker .472 (.47222) Brooklyn Superbas 22
Lew Moren .471 (.47059) Philadelphia Phillies 23
Vive Lindaman .429 (.42857) Boston Doves 24
Kaiser Wilhelm .421 (.42105) Brooklyn Superbas 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.

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.