Saves : 1955 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)
 

1955 Saves Leaders

Top 25 in the National League
Jack Meyer 16 Philadelphia Phillies 1
Ed Roebuck 12 Brooklyn Dodgers 2
Hersh Freeman 11 Cincinnati Redlegs 3
Clem Labine 11 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Marv Grissom 8 New York Giants 5
Jim Hughes 6 Brooklyn Dodgers 6
Hal Jeffcoat 6 Chicago Cubs  
Roy Face 5 Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Howie Pollet 5 Chicago Cubs  
Ernie Johnson 4 Milwaukee Braves 10
Barney Schultz 4 St. Louis Cardinals  
Don Bessent 3 Brooklyn Dodgers 12
Joe Black 3 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Cincinnati Redlegs  
Jim Davis 3 Chicago Cubs  
Warren Hacker 3 Chicago Cubs  
Paul LaPalme 3 St. Louis Cardinals  
Windy McCall 3 New York Giants  
Joe Nuxhall 3 Cincinnati Redlegs  
Robin Roberts 3 Philadelphia Phillies  
Roger Craig 2 Brooklyn Dodgers 20
Art Fowler 2 Cincinnati Redlegs  
Bob Friend 2 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Larry Jackson 2 St. Louis Cardinals  
Ron Kline 2 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Herb Moford 2 St. Louis Cardinals  



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.

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).
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