1939 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Johnny Murphy	19	New York Yankees	1
Clint Brown	18	Chicago White Sox	2
Chubby Dean	7	Philadelphia Athletics	3
Joe Heving	7	Boston Red Sox
Pete Appleton	6	Washington Senators	5
Al Benton	5	Detroit Tigers	6
Emerson Dickman	5	Boston Red Sox
Archie McKain	4	Detroit Tigers	8
Fritz Ostermueller	4	Boston Red Sox
Willis Hudlin	3	Cleveland Indians	10
Thornton Lee	3	Chicago White Sox
Al Milnar	3	Cleveland Indians
Tommy Bridges	2	Detroit Tigers	13
Alex Carrasquel	2	Washington Senators
Harry Eisenstat	2	Detroit Tigers
		Cleveland Indians
Bump Hadley	2	New York Yankees
Oral Hildebrand	2	New York Yankees
Johnny Humphries	2	Cleveland Indians
Lefty Mills	2	St. Louis Browns
Bobo Newsom	2	St. Louis Browns
		Detroit Tigers
Nels Potter	2	Philadelphia Athletics
Marius Russo	2	New York Yankees
Dizzy Trout	2	Detroit Tigers
Jack Wilson	2	Boston Red Sox
Joe Dobson	1	Cleveland Indians	25
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). 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. 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.