1972 Home Runs Leaders Top 25 in the National League
Name	Home Runs	Team	Rank
Johnny Bench	40	Cincinnati Reds	1
Nate Colbert	38	San Diego Padres	2
Billy Williams	37	Chicago Cubs	3
Hank Aaron	34	Atlanta Braves	4
Willie Stargell	33	Pittsburgh Pirates	5
Dave Kingman	29	San Francisco Giants	6
Lee May	29	Houston Astros
Earl Williams	28	Atlanta Braves	8
Bobby Bonds	26	San Francisco Giants	9
Jimmy Wynn	24	Houston Astros	10
Cesar Cedeno	22	Houston Astros	11
Doug Rader	22	Houston Astros
Tony Perez	21	Cincinnati Reds	13
Willie Davis	19	Los Angeles Dodgers	14
Darrell Evans	19	Atlanta Braves
Richie Hebner	19	Pittsburgh Pirates
Frank Robinson	19	Los Angeles Dodgers
Ken Henderson	18	San Francisco Giants	18
Greg Luzinski	18	Philadelphia Phillies
Dusty Baker	17	Atlanta Braves	20
Jose Cardenal	17	Chicago Cubs
Ron Fairly	17	Montreal Expos
Jim Hickman	17	Chicago Cubs
John Milner	17	New York Mets
Ron Santo	17	Chicago Cubs
Name	Home Runs	Team	Rank

	Jose Cruz of the Houston Astros had his number twenty-five retired on October 3, 1992, and became the first Major League player with that particular retired number. 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).