Winning Percentage : 1925 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:

"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)
 

1925 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Bill Sherdel .714 (.71429) St. Louis Cardinals 1
Dazzy Vance .710 (.70968) Brooklyn Robins 2
Vic Aldridge .682 (.68182) Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Ray Kremer .680 (.68000) Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Larry Benton .667 (.66667) Boston Braves 5
Eppa Rixey .656 (.65625) Cincinnati Reds 6
Lee Meadows .655 (.65517) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Emil Yde .654 (.65385) Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Pete Donohue .600 (.60000) Cincinnati Reds 9
Kent Greenfield .600 (.60000) New York Giants  
Grover Alexander .577 (.57692) Chicago Cubs 11
Virgil Barnes .577 (.57692) New York Giants  
Jack Bentley .550 (.55000) New York Giants 13
Art Nehf .550 (.55000) New York Giants  
Johnny Morrison .548 (.54839) Pittsburgh Pirates 15
Joe Genewich .545 (.54545) Boston Braves 16
Johnny Cooney .500 (.50000) Boston Braves 17
Tony Kaufmann .500 (.50000) Chicago Cubs  
Jesse Petty .500 (.50000) Brooklyn Robins  
Allen Sothoron .500 (.50000) St. Louis Cardinals  
Jack Scott .483 (.48276) New York Giants 21
Hal Carlson .481 (.48148) Philadelphia Phillies 22
Jesse Haines .481 (.48148) St. Louis Cardinals  
Dolf Luque .471 (.47059) Cincinnati Reds 24
Jimmy Ring .467 (.46667) Philadelphia Phillies 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.