Winning Percentage : 1938 National League Top 25

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"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)
 

1938 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Bill Lee .710 (.70968) Chicago Cubs 1
Bob Klinger .706 (.70588) Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Vito Tamulis .667 (.66667) Brooklyn Dodgers 3
Clay Bryant .633 (.63333) Chicago Cubs 4
Hal Schumacher .619 (.61905) New York Giants 5
Lon Warneke .619 (.61905) St. Louis Cardinals  
Cy Blanton .611 (.61111) Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Danny MacFayden .609 (.60870) Boston Bees 8
Curt Davis .600 (.60000) St. Louis Cardinals 9
Paul Derringer .600 (.60000) Cincinnati Reds  
Bill Lohrman .600 (.60000) New York Giants  
Johnny Vander Meer .600 (.60000) Cincinnati Reds  
Bob Weiland .593 (.59259) St. Louis Cardinals 13
Freddie Fitzsimmons .579 (.57895) Brooklyn Dodgers 14
Carl Hubbell .565 (.56522) New York Giants 15
Jim Tobin .538 (.53846) Pittsburgh Pirates 16
Harry Gumbert .536 (.53571) New York Giants 17
Charlie Root .533 (.53333) Chicago Cubs 18
Tex Carleton .526 (.52632) Chicago Cubs 19
Bucky Walters .517 (.51724) Philadelphia Phillies 20
Cincinnati Reds  
Cliff Melton .500 (.50000) New York Giants 21
Russ Bauers .481 (.48148) Pittsburgh Pirates 22
Lou Fette .458 (.45833) Boston Bees 23
Luke Hamlin .444 (.44444) Brooklyn Dodgers 24
Tot Pressnell .440 (.44000) Brooklyn Dodgers 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.

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?

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.
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