Saves : 1953 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)
 

1953 Saves Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Al Brazle 18 St. Louis Cardinals 1
Hoyt Wilhelm 15 New York Giants 2
Jim Hughes 9 Brooklyn Dodgers 3
Lew Burdette 8 Milwaukee Braves 4
Dutch Leonard 8 Chicago Cubs  
Clem Labine 7 Brooklyn Dodgers 6
Hal White 7 St. Louis Cardinals  
Johnny Klippstein 6 Chicago Cubs 8
Joe Black 5 Brooklyn Dodgers 9
Jim Konstanty 5 Philadelphia Phillies  
Murry Dickson 4 Pittsburgh Pirates 11
Stu Miller 4 St. Louis Cardinals  
Jerry Staley 4 St. Louis Cardinals  
Jackie Collum 3 St. Louis Cardinals 14
Cincinnati Redlegs  
Karl Drews 3 Philadelphia Phillies  
Carl Erskine 3 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Andy Hansen 3 Philadelphia Phillies  
Johnny Hetki 3 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Turk Lown 3 Chicago Cubs  
Warren Spahn 3 Milwaukee Braves  
Ben Wade 3 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Al Corwin 2 New York Giants 22
Warren Hacker 2 Chicago Cubs  
Bob Kelly 2 Chicago Cubs  
Cincinnati Redlegs  
Clyde King 2 Cincinnati Redlegs  



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.

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).

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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