Luis Castillo has become the catalyst of the offense, holding the National League's third-highest batting average, .352, the third-highest on-base percentage, .437, and the most stolen bases, 47.

McGwire ended up ninth in the voting, trailing far behind Gwynn, who received 532 votes, or 97.6 percent, and even farther behind Ripken, who was chosen on 537 ballots, or 98.5 percent, the third-highest percentage ever.

Thirty-six percent of Atlantic City's housing stock is already subsidized -the third-highest percentage per capita in the United States.

While Bronx County still has the third-highest percentage of single mothers in America, and while rates of childhood asthma are among the nation's highest, low-income families in the Bronx are now finding it possible to work their way up.

As of the 2010 United States Census, West New York had the third-highest percentage of Hispanics in the state, at 78.1%, and accounts for 2.5% of the state's Hispanic population.

In its State of World Population 2006 report, the United Nations Population Fund lists Germany with hosting the third-highest percentage of the main international migrants worldwide, about 5% or 10 million of all 191 million migrants.

According to data published in The Telegraph Bristol has the third-highest percentage of 'good honours' of any UK university, behind Oxford and Cambridge.

He was elected in his first year of eligibility, and appeared on 96% of the ballots, the third-highest percentage at that time.

The riding has the third-highest percentage of francophones in Manitoba.

Blacks now make up nearly 25 percent of Maryland's population, according to 1990 census data, and the state is projected to have the third-highest percentage of blacks of any state, after Mississippi and Louisiana, by the turn of the century.