1971 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Ken Sanders	31	Milwaukee Brewers	1
Ted Abernathy	23	Kansas City Royals	2
Fred Scherman	20	Detroit Tigers	3
Tom Burgmeier	17	Kansas City Royals	4
Rollie Fingers	17	Oakland Athletics
Sparky Lyle	16	Boston Red Sox	6
Lloyd Allen	15	California Angels	7
Phil Hennigan	14	Cleveland Indians	8
Bart Johnson	14	Chicago White Sox
Eddie Watt	11	Baltimore Orioles	10
Tom Hall	9	Minnesota Twins	11
Darold Knowles	9	Washington Senators
		Oakland Athletics
Dave LaRoche	9	California Angels
Ken Tatum	9	Boston Red Sox
Paul Lindblad	8	Oakland Athletics	15
		Washington Senators
Casey Cox	7	Washington Senators	16
Ron Perranoski	7	Minnesota Twins
		Detroit Tigers
Bobby Bolin	6	Boston Red Sox	18
Steve Kealey	6	Chicago White Sox
Bob Locker	6	Oakland Athletics
Joe Grzenda	5	Washington Senators	21
Vicente Romo	5	Chicago White Sox
Jack Aker	4	New York Yankees	23
Tom Dukes	4	Baltimore Orioles
Ed Farmer	4	Cleveland Indians
Name	Saves	Team	Rank

	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). The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry. 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.