Winning Percentage : 1926 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:

"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)
 

1926 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Ray Kremer .769 (.76923) Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Jesse Haines .765 (.76471) St. Louis Cardinals 2
Flint Rhem .741 (.74074) St. Louis Cardinals 3
Lee Meadows .690 (.68966) Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Eppa Rixey .636 (.63636) Cincinnati Reds 5
Percy Jones .632 (.63158) Chicago Cubs 6
Red Lucas .615 (.61538) Cincinnati Reds 7
Carl Mays .613 (.61290) Cincinnati Reds 8
Guy Bush .591 (.59091) Chicago Cubs 9
Jakie May .591 (.59091) Cincinnati Reds  
Pete Donohue .588 (.58824) Cincinnati Reds 11
Hal Carlson .586 (.58621) Philadelphia Phillies 12
Freddie Fitzsimmons .583 (.58333) New York Giants 13
Bill Sherdel .571 (.57143) St. Louis Cardinals 14
Tony Kaufmann .563 (.56250) Chicago Cubs 15
Johnny Werts .550 (.55000) Boston Braves 16
Grover Alexander .545 (.54545) Chicago Cubs 17
St. Louis Cardinals  
Emil Yde .533 (.53333) Pittsburgh Pirates 18
Vic Keen .526 (.52632) St. Louis Cardinals 19
Hugh McQuillan .524 (.52381) New York Giants 20
Jimmy Ring .524 (.52381) New York Giants  
Kent Greenfield .520 (.52000) New York Giants 22
Charlie Root .514 (.51429) Chicago Cubs 23
Larry Benton .500 (.50000) Boston Braves 24
Jesse Petty .500 (.50000) Brooklyn Robins  



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

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?