Saves : 1917 National League Top 25

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"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)
 

1917 Saves Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Slim Sallee 4 New York Giants 1
Red Ames 3 St. Louis Cardinals 2
Fred Anderson 3 New York Giants  
Rube Benton 3 New York Giants  
Leon Cadore 3 Brooklyn Robins  
Sherry Smith 3 Brooklyn Robins  
Vic Aldridge 2 Chicago Cubs 7
Chief Bender 2 Philadelphia Phillies  
Paul Carter 2 Chicago Cubs  
Larry Cheney 2 Brooklyn Robins  
Bill Doak 2 St. Louis Cardinals  
Elmer Jacobs 2 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Lee Meadows 2 St. Louis Cardinals  
Gene Packard 2 Chicago Cubs  
St. Louis Cardinals  
Jimmy Ring 2 Cincinnati Reds  
Jeff Tesreau 2 New York Giants  
Jesse Barnes 1 Boston Braves 17
Hal Carlson 1 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Wilbur Cooper 1 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Wheezer Dell 1 Brooklyn Robins  
Al Demaree 1 Chicago Cubs  
New York Giants  
Phil Douglas 1 Chicago Cubs  
Hod Eller 1 Cincinnati Reds  
Claude Hendrix 1 Chicago Cubs  
Oscar Horstmann 1 St. Louis Cardinals  



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