1972 Saves Leaders Top 25 in the American League
Name	Saves	Team	Rank
Sparky Lyle	35	New York Yankees	1
Terry Forster	29	Chicago White Sox	2
Rollie Fingers	21	Oakland Athletics	3
Wayne Granger	19	Minnesota Twins	4
Ken Sanders	17	Milwaukee Brewers	5
Horacio Pina	15	Texas Rangers	6
Chuck Seelbach	14	Detroit Tigers	7
Frank Linzy	12	Milwaukee Brewers	8
Fred Scherman	12	Detroit Tigers
Darold Knowles	11	Oakland Athletics	10
Dave LaRoche	10	Minnesota Twins	11
Bob Locker	10	Oakland Athletics
Steve Mingori	10	Cleveland Indians
Tom Burgmeier	9	Kansas City Royals	14
Paul Lindblad	9	Texas Rangers
Grant Jackson	8	Baltimore Orioles	16
Ed Farmer	7	Cleveland Indians	17
Eddie Watt	7	Baltimore Orioles
Ted Abernathy	5	Kansas City Royals	19
Cy Acosta	5	Chicago White Sox
Lloyd Allen	5	California Angels
Bobby Bolin	5	Boston Red Sox
Phil Hennigan	5	Cleveland Indians
Bill Lee	5	Boston Red Sox
Casey Cox	4	Texas Rangers	25
		New York Yankees
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. 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. 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).