Top 25 Saves in 1972 in the National League

Saves : 1972 National League Top 25

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"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)

1972 Saves Leaders
Top 25 in the National League

Name Saves Team Rank

Clay Carroll 37 Cincinnati Reds 1

Tug McGraw 27 New York Mets 2

Dave Giusti 22 Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Mike Marshall 18 Montreal Expos 4

Jack Aker 17 Chicago Cubs 5

Jim Brewer 17 Los Angeles Dodgers

Fred Gladding 14 Houston Astros 7

Ramon Hernandez 14 Pittsburgh Pirates

Cecil Upshaw 13 Atlanta Braves 9

Pedro Borbon 11 Cincinnati Reds 10

Danny Frisella 9 New York Mets 11

Diego Segui 9 St. Louis Cardinals

Tom Hall 8 Cincinnati Reds 13

Jerry Johnson 8 San Francisco Giants

Jim Ray 8 Houston Astros

Mike Corkins 6 San Diego Padres 16

Tom Phoebus 6 San Diego Padres

Chicago Cubs

Pete Richert 6 Los Angeles Dodgers

Joe Hoerner 5 Philadelphia Phillies 19

Atlanta Braves

Don McMahon 5 San Francisco Giants

Pete Mikkelsen 5 Los Angeles Dodgers

Bill Bonham 4 Chicago Cubs 22

Dan McGinn 4 Chicago Cubs

Randy Moffitt 4 San Francisco Giants

Mac Scarce 4 Philadelphia Phillies

Name Saves Team Rank

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.

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

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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