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On April 16, 1929, the Yankees opening game was cancelled due to rain while the Indians played, becoming the first team to wear numbers on the back. By the mid-1930s every team in Major League Baseball was wearing numbers on the back of jerseys except the Philadelphia Athletics. The Athletics later added numbers to their jerseys in 1939. [10]
Plaques of numbers retired by the New York Yankees in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. Major League Baseball (MLB) and its participating clubs have retired various uniform numbers over the course of time, ensuring that those numbers are never worn again and thus will always be associated with particular players or managers of note.
(Okkonen, p. 36, p. 120) [3] In 1929, numbers were first added on the backs of uniforms by the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians. By 1932, all major league baseball teams had numbers on their players' uniforms. [3] The Brooklyn Dodgers, in 1952, became the first baseball team to add numbers to the fronts of their uniforms.
The Indians played their game as scheduled, in the process becoming the first major league team to wear uniform numbers on the back of the jersey. [5] The practice of adding uniform numbers to home and road jerseys became universal in the American and National Leagues in 1937, when the Philadelphia Athletics became the last team to do so. [5] [7]
The University of Florida football team wore throwback uniforms in a single game on September 30, 2006, in honor of Florida's teams in the 1960s. [16] The University of Washington football team wore throwback uniforms on September 29, 2007, to honor the 1960 national championship team. The throwback jerseys were dark blue with gold helmets.
August 11, 2006, in Washington, the New York Mets and Nationals wore uniforms of the New York Cubans and the Grays. [9] August 3, 2007, The Nationals and Cardinals wore uniforms of the Grays and Stars. July 28, 2012, in Milwaukee, the Nationals and the Milwaukee Brewers wore uniforms of the Grays and the Milwaukee Bears. [10]
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Turn Back the Clock is the name associated with the promotion by Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises when they wear throwback uniforms. Often, the uniforms signify a special event in the team or regions history. The promotion was originated in 1990 by the Chicago White Sox. Since then, multiple other teams have made it a yearly tradition.