Top 25 Saves in 1962 in the National League

Saves : 1962 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"Although baseball decided to extend the regular season deeper into October to play 162 games (after the 09-11 disaster), why not just play 154? Baseball has dealt with shortened seasons before. (Bud) Selig spoke about the sanctity of playing 162 games, but baseball played 154 games until 1961. Baseball should have just let the games go and continued with the current schedule." - Joe Morgan on ESPN (September 19, 2001)

1962 Saves Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Saves Team Rank

Roy Face 28 Pittsburgh Pirates 1

Ron Perranoski 20 Los Angeles Dodgers 2

Stu Miller 19 San Francisco Giants 3

Lindy McDaniel 14 St. Louis Cardinals 4

Jack Baldschun 13 Philadelphia Phillies 5

Jim Brosnan 13 Cincinnati Reds

Bill Henry 11 Cincinnati Reds 7

Don Larsen 11 San Francisco Giants

Larry Sherry 11 Los Angeles Dodgers

Claude Raymond 10 Milwaukee Braves 10

Ed Roebuck 9 Los Angeles Dodgers 11

Don Elston 8 Chicago Cubs 12

Don McMahon 8 Milwaukee Braves

Houston Colt .45s

Diomedes Olivo 7 Pittsburgh Pirates 14

Bobby Bolin 5 San Francisco Giants 15

Barney Schultz 5 Chicago Cubs

Bob Anderson 4 Chicago Cubs 17

Craig Anderson 4 New York Mets

Don Cardwell 4 Chicago Cubs

Turk Farrell 4 Houston Colt .45s

Hank Fischer 4 Milwaukee Braves

Johnny Klippstein 4 Cincinnati Reds

Bobby Shantz 4 Houston Colt .45s

St. Louis Cardinals

Dennis Bennett 3 Philadelphia Phillies 24

Roger Craig 3 New York Mets

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.

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.

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.

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