Winning Percentage : 1965 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)
 

1965 Winning Percentage Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Sandy Koufax .765 (.76471) Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Bobby Bolin .700 (.70000) San Francisco Giants 2
Jim Maloney .690 (.68966) Cincinnati Reds 3
Sammy Ellis .688 (.68750) Cincinnati Reds 4
Tony Cloninger .686 (.68571) Milwaukee Braves 5
Jim Bunning .679 (.67857) Philadelphia Phillies 6
Don Drysdale .657 (.65714) Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Vern Law .654 (.65385) Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Bob Shaw .640 (.64000) San Francisco Giants 9
Juan Marichal .629 (.62857) San Francisco Giants 10
Bob Gibson .625 (.62500) St. Louis Cardinals 11
Chris Short .621 (.62069) Philadelphia Phillies 12
Wade Blasingame .615 (.61538) Milwaukee Braves 13
Ken Johnson .615 (.61538) Houston Astros  
Milwaukee Braves  
Bob Veale .586 (.58621) Pittsburgh Pirates 15
Ray Culp .583 (.58333) Philadelphia Phillies 16
Tracy Stallard .579 (.57895) St. Louis Cardinals 17
Ron Herbel .571 (.57143) San Francisco Giants 18
Don Cardwell .565 (.56522) Pittsburgh Pirates 19
Bob Buhl .542 (.54167) Chicago Cubs 20
Turk Farrell .500 (.50000) Houston Astros 21
Claude Osteen .500 (.50000) Los Angeles Dodgers  
Dick Ellsworth .483 (.48276) Chicago Cubs 23
Cal Koonce .438 (.43750) Chicago Cubs 24
Bob Friend .400 (.40000) Pittsburgh Pirates 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.

Jim Thome wore number twenty-five since he first came up with the Cleveland Indians making him the franchise record holder for that particular number (Mike Garcia is second).

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.