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The earliest photographic evidence of a baseball uniform number dates back to 1909. In an issue of the Chicago Daily News, star pitcher José Méndez, then playing for the Cuban Stars, a traveling Negro league baseball team of the early 1900s, is seen wearing the number 12 on his left sleeve. [5]
Normally the individual clubs are responsible for retiring numbers. On April 15, 1997, Major League Baseball took the unusual move of retiring a number for all teams. On the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the baseball color line, his number 42 was retired throughout the majors, at the order of Commissioner Bud Selig.
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.One of the "Big Four" major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada, MLB comprises 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
From 1950 through 1999, it happened a total of 574 times, [3] an average of slightly less than 12 times a season, typically late in blowouts. [4] Exceptions include the earliest years of the modern baseball era (it happened 236 times from 1901 through 1903) and during the player shortage of World War II (e.g. 71 times during 1942). [3]
Squad number, as depicted on an association football jersey. In team sports, the number, often referred to as the uniform number, squad number, jersey number, shirt number, sweater number, or similar (with such naming differences varying by sport and region) is the number worn on a player's uniform, to identify and distinguish each player (and sometimes others, such as coaches and officials ...
In 1939, Gehrig was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame [4] and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number retired by a team when his number 4 was retired by the Yankees. A native of New York City and a student at Columbia University , Gehrig signed with the Yankees on April 29, 1923.
Gibson amassed career totals of 838 hits in 2,255 at-bats and 628 games, [12] and is also the MLB all-time career leader in Slugging (SLG) percentage and On-Base Plus Slugging (OPS) percentage. Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers , holds the second highest career batting average of .367, and led the AL in average in 11 (or 12) seasons. [ 13 ]
The numbers retired by the Red Sox are red on a white circle. Jackie Robinson's 42, which was retired by Major League Baseball, is blue on a white circle. The two are further delineated through the font difference; Boston numbers are in the same style as the Red Sox jerseys, while Robinson's number is in the more traditional "block" numbering ...