1979 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Mike Marshall	32	Minnesota Twins	1
Jim Kern	29	Texas Rangers	2
Aurelio Lopez	21	Detroit Tigers	3
Don Stanhouse	21	Baltimore Orioles
Sid Monge	19	Cleveland Indians	5
Goose Gossage	18	New York Yankees	6
Mark Clear	14	California Angels	7
Ed Farmer	14	Texas Rangers
		Chicago White Sox
Byron McLaughlin	14	Seattle Mariners
Dick Drago	13	Boston Red Sox	10
Sparky Lyle	13	Texas Rangers
Al Hrabosky	11	Kansas City Royals	12
Shane Rawley	11	Seattle Mariners
Victor Cruz	10	Cleveland Indians	14
Dave LaRoche	10	California Angels
Bill Campbell	9	Boston Red Sox	16
Ron Davis	9	New York Yankees
Dave Heaverlo	9	Oakland Athletics
John Hiller	9	Detroit Tigers
Mike Proly	9	Chicago White Sox
Tom Buskey	7	Toronto Blue Jays	21
John Montague	7	Seattle Mariners
		California Angels
Bill Castro	6	Milwaukee Brewers	23
Jerry Augustine	5	Milwaukee Brewers	24
Dave Hamilton	5	Oakland Athletics
Name	Saves	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. The first player from the Angels franchise (they were the California Angels at the time) to wear the number twenty-five was Bob Perry. 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.