List of Major League Baseball win leaders by birthplace

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The following is a list of the Major League Baseball pitchers with the highest career total of wins by birth state (or country, where applicable) as of June 15, 2009.

Boldface indicates an active player in the 2009 season.

Total number of career wins
≥ 300
250-299
200-249
150-199
100-149
0-99

Contents

[edit] United States

Birth state Player Career win total
 Alabama Don Sutton 324
 Alaska Curt Schilling 216
 Arizona John Denny 123
 Arkansas Lon Warneke 192
 California Tom Seaver 311
 Colorado Rich Gossage 124
 Connecticut Bill Hutchison 183
 Delaware Sadie McMahon 173
 Florida Steve Carlton 329
 Georgia Kenny Rogers 219
 Hawaiʻi Charlie Hough[1] 216
 Idaho Larry Jackson 194
 Illinois Robin Roberts 286
 Indiana Tommy John 288
 Iowa Bob Feller 266
 Kansas Walter Johnson 417
 Kentucky Gus Weyhing 264
 Louisiana Ted Lyons 260
 Maine Bob Stanley 115
 Maryland Lefty Grove 300
 Massachusetts Tim Keefe 342
 Michigan Jim Kaat 283
 Minnesota Jack Morris 254
 Mississippi Guy Bush 176
 Missouri Pud Galvin 364
 Montana Dave McNally 184
 Nebraska Grover Cleveland Alexander 373
 Nevada Barry Zito 126
 New Hampshire Mike Flanagan 167
 New Jersey Al Leiter 162
 New Mexico Wade Blasingame 46
 New York Warren Spahn 363
 North Carolina Gaylord Perry 314
 North Dakota Rick Helling 93
 Ohio Cy Young 511
 Oklahoma Allie Reynolds 182
 Oregon Mickey Lolich 217
 Pennsylvania Christy Mathewson 373
 Rhode Island Tom Lovett 88
 South Carolina Bobo Newsom 211
 South Dakota Floyd Bannister 134
 Tennessee Bob Caruthers 218
 Texas Greg Maddux 355
 Utah Bruce Hurst 145
 Vermont Ray Fisher 100
 Virginia Eppa Rixey 266
 Washington Todd Stottlemyre 138
 West Virginia Wilbur Cooper 216
 Wisconsin Kid Nichols 361
 Wyoming Tom Browning 123

[edit] Territories of the United States

Birth territory Player Career win total
 District of Columbia Doc White 189
 Puerto Rico Juan Pizarro 131
 U.S. Virgin Islands Al McBean 67

[edit] Outside the United States

[edit] Canada

Birth province Player Career win total
 Alberta Mike Johnson 7
 British Columbia Ryan Dempster 80
 Manitoba Russ Ford 99
 New Brunswick Rheal Cormier 71
 Nova Scotia Vince Horsman 4
 Ontario Ferguson Jenkins 284
 Quebec Claude Raymond 46
 Saskatchewan Reggie Cleveland 105

[edit] Mexico

Birth state Player Career win total
 Baja California Esteban Loaiza 126
 Chihuahua Juan Acevedo 28
 Coahuila Joakim Soria 5
 Guanajuato Max León 14
 Jalisco Jesse Flores 44
 México Rodrigo López 65
 Michoacán Yovani Gallardo 15
 Nuevo León Jorge de la Rosa 27
 Puebla Aurelio López 62
 San Luis Potosí Armando Reynoso 68
 Sinaloa Teddy Higuera 94
 Sonora Fernando Valenzuela 173
 Tamaulipas Ismael Valdez 104
 Veracruz Francisco Córdova 42

[edit] Other Countries

Birth country Player Career win total
 Afghanistan Jeff Bronkey 2
 Aruba[2] Sidney Ponson 91
 Australia Graeme Lloyd 30
 Austria–Hungary[3] Jack Quinn[4] 247
 Bahamas Wenty Ford 1
 Colombia Emiliano Fruto 2
 Cuba Luis Tiant 229
 Curaçao[5] Jair Jurrjens 21
 Czechoslovakia[6] Joe Hovlik 2
 Dominican Republic Juan Marichal 243
 England Danny Cox 74
 France Charlie Lea 62
 East Germany Mickey Scott 8
 Germany Charlie Getzein 145
 Indonesia Tom Mastny 9
 Ireland[7] Tony Mullane 284
 Italy Marino Pieretti 30
 Jamaica Justin Masterson 8
 Japan Hideo Nomo 123
 Netherlands Bert Blyleven 287
 Nicaragua Dennis Martínez 245
 Northern Ireland[8] John Tener 25
 Norway Jimmy Wiggs 3
 Panama Mariano Rivera 69
 Philippines Bobby Chouinard 11
 Poland Moe Drabowsky 88
 Russia Rube Schauer 10
 Scotland Jim McCormick 265
 South Korea Chan Ho Park 120
 South Vietnam[9] Danny Graves 43
 Spain Bryan Oelkers 3
 Sweden Eric Erickson 34
 Switzerland Otto Hess 70
 Taiwan Chien-Ming Wang 54
 Ukraine[10] Izzy Goldstein 3
 Venezuela Freddy García 118
 Wales Ted Lewis 94


[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Hough was born in Hawaii when it was still a U.S. territory. The most wins for a pitcher born in the State of Hawaii is 136 by Ron Darling.
  2. ^ Aruba is an autonomous region within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
  3. ^ The Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved in 1918 at the end of World War I.
  4. ^ Quinn was born in what is now  Slovakia.
  5. ^ Curaçao is a part of the Netherlands Antilles, an autonomous region within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands Antilles was scheduled to be dissolved on December 15, 2008, at which time Curaçao would become its own region with the same status as Aruba; this dissolution is still planned, but has been postponed to an indefinite future date.
  6. ^ Partitioned in 1993 into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  7. ^ Mullane was born in 1859, when the entire island of Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom. His birthplace lies within the modern  Republic of Ireland, which became independent as the Irish Free State in 1922, adopted its current official name of "Ireland" in 1937, and declared itself a republic in 1949.
  8. ^ Tener was born in 1863, when the entire island of Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom. His birthplace lies within the modern  Northern Ireland, which remained as a part of the United Kingdom when the rest of the island of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State in 1922.
  9. ^ Merged with North Vietnam to create modern-day  Vietnam.
  10. ^ The Ukraine formed part of the Russian Empire, then formed part of the  Soviet Union until 1991, when The Ukraine became an independent country.
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