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Dominic Paul DiMaggio (February 12, 1917 – May 8, 2009), nicknamed "the Little Professor", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 11-year baseball career for the Boston Red Sox (1940–1953).
The sculpture depicts Boston Red Sox teammates (from left to right): Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams. The statue was erected in honor of not only their time together as teammates - they were teammates for seven seasons - and also the friendship formed between them long after they all retired.
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.
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]
Joe DiMaggio * 100 15 Ginger Beaumont † 99 16 Rebel Oakes: 92 Burt Shotton: 92 18 Sam Chapman: 91 19 Taylor Douthit: 90 20 Dom DiMaggio: 89 21 Earle Combs * 88 22 Hy Myers: 87 23 Baby Doll Jacobson: 86 24 Hack Wilson * 84 25 Sam Rice * 80 26 Kenny Lofton: 78 Willie McGee: 78 Lloyd Waner * 78 29 Bill Bruton: 77 Johnny Mostil: 77 Vada Pinson ...
Larry Jones (1967-68) and Bob Zarr (1964-65) only did so as their alternate road jersey numbers back when the Lobos had an even number for their home whites and odd number for their road dark jerseys.
His jersey number 1 was retired by the Red Sox on May 21, 1988. ... Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky, Doerr was honored with The Teammates statue outside Fenway Park ...
The former mayor was gifted the number-five-emblazoned jersey in 2002 at the Joe DiMaggio Award Gala, contemporary reports reveal. The event was hosted by Brooklyn’s Xaverian High School .