Saves : 1965 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"The baseball season - six months & 2,106 games - is flat out long, and it's a rare one of those games that doesn't ramble or sputter or digress or somehow violate the rules of dramatic narrative. Baseball takes its own sweet time reaching its conclusions." - Dwight Allen in Reds, Yanks and O's (1989)
 

1965 Saves Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Ted Abernathy 31 Chicago Cubs 1
Frank Linzy 21 San Francisco Giants 2
Billy McCool 21 Cincinnati Reds  
Al McBean 18 Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Billy O'Dell 18 Milwaukee Braves  
Hal Woodeshick 18 Houston Astros  
St. Louis Cardinals  
Ron Perranoski 17 Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Bob Miller 9 Los Angeles Dodgers 8
Masanori Murakami 8 San Francisco Giants 9
Jim Owens 8 Houston Astros  
Gary Wagner 7 Philadelphia Phillies 11
Jack Baldschun 6 Philadelphia Phillies 12
Don Dennis 6 St. Louis Cardinals  
Phil Niekro 6 Milwaukee Braves  
Dan Osinski 6 Milwaukee Braves  
Claude Raymond 5 Houston Astros 16
Ron Taylor 5 St. Louis Cardinals  
Houston Astros  
Nelson Briles 4 St. Louis Cardinals 18
Frank Carpin 4 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Bill Henry 4 Cincinnati Reds  
San Francisco Giants  
Don Schwall 4 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Roger Craig 3 Cincinnati Reds 22
Dave Giusti 3 Houston Astros  
Dennis Ribant 3 New York Mets  
Ed Roebuck 3 Philadelphia Phillies  



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.

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

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).