Saves : 1939 National League Top 25

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"I don't think I stayed for a complete game that first year (in Arizona). But something happened. During the second year, I started watching more intently, listening to the broadcasters talk about strategy. I started getting it. Suddenly, a 162-game season didn't seem ridiculously long anymore." - Richard Ruelas in The Arizona Republic (11-07-2001)
 

1939 Saves Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Bob Bowman 9 St. Louis Cardinals 1
Clyde Shoun 9 St. Louis Cardinals  
Jumbo Brown 7 New York Giants 3
Mace Brown 7 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Curt Davis 7 St. Louis Cardinals  
Cliff Melton 5 New York Giants 6
Mort Cooper 4 St. Louis Cardinals 7
Fred Frankhouse 4 Boston Bees  
Johnny Lanning 4 Boston Bees  
Hugh Mulcahy 4 Philadelphia Phillies  
Charlie Root 4 Chicago Cubs  
Bill Swift 4 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Vito Tamulis 4 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Boom-Boom Beck 3 Philadelphia Phillies 14
Dick Coffman 3 New York Giants  
Freddie Fitzsimmons 3 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Whitey Moore 3 Cincinnati Reds  
Claude Passeau 3 Philadelphia Phillies  
Chicago Cubs  
Jack Russell 3 Chicago Cubs  
Peaches Davis 2 Cincinnati Reds 20
Kirby Higbe 2 Chicago Cubs  
Philadelphia Phillies  
Carl Hubbell 2 New York Giants  
Syl Johnson 2 Philadelphia Phillies  
Danny MacFayden 2 Boston Bees  
Tot Pressnell 2 Brooklyn Dodgers  



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.

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 most recognizable Detroit Tiger to wear the number twenty-five was probably Norm Cash (who wore it from 1960 through 1974), but did you know that Hall of Famer Larry Doby also wore it during his single season with Detroit?
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