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Cliff Johnson never wore 99. So says Baseball Almanac. I've removed this reference. 99.237.62.225 ( talk) 02:07, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Some of the expansion teams of the 1960s had a free hand in establishing uniform numbering, and generally reserved 1-5 for the manager and coaches, 7, 8 and 9 for catchers, 10-19 for infielders, 20s for outfielders, 30s and 40s for pitchers and rarely anything higher. One could still see vestiges of that system in the years following. WHPratt ( talk) 15:27, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
The entire article should be rewritten. I'm not going to go through each point here, but I'm going to add citation needed tags to the areas that I think need a source. — X96lee15 ( talk) 02:00, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
This is Buu Huu speaking. I don't think it says it on the article, but is it legal for a baseball player to wear a 3-digit number? Buu Huu
"Detroit Tigers center fielder Gabe Kapler also played a game with a blank jersey,[4] though it that case the Tigers were playing the final game at Tiger Stadium and the players were honoring the famous Tigers in each position. In Kapler's case he was honoring Ty Cobb, who's career pre-dated uniform numbers."
The Tigers did not retire any numbers until Al Kaline retired, and the alleged reason for this was the inability to so honor Cobb, who never had a number. One sportswriter argued that Cobb's non-number had a de facto retirement, in that nobody would ever wear no number for the Tigers again. WHPratt ( talk) 17:42, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Catcher Benito Santiago wore number "09" (zero-nine) for a time. He didn't like the way that the back strap of his chest protector covered a single-digit, centered number. This raises the question; is 09 different from just plain 9? It's mathematically the same, but graphically different. Could a team have both a 9 and an 09 (or any similiarly-paired numbers) on the roster? Allowing such semi-duplication could help matters when numbers are in short supply, as in football. WHPratt ( talk) 17:50, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
"On Jackie Robinson Day, teams across the MLB all wear uniform number 42 to honor him. The MLB has taken this tribute so far that, on that day only, all 30 team websites' active rosters say that every player on the team is number 42."
I'd be curious as to how they handle the display of the local lineups and of the out-of-town pitchers on the scoreboard. Do they show everybody as 42 (rendering these displays rather worthless) or instead use the players' usual numbers. It might vary by ballpark. WHPratt ( talk) 14:43, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Isn't #49 mostly worn by a knuckleball pitcher? -- Full steam ( talk) 17:05, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
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Cliff Johnson never wore 99. So says Baseball Almanac. I've removed this reference. 99.237.62.225 ( talk) 02:07, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Some of the expansion teams of the 1960s had a free hand in establishing uniform numbering, and generally reserved 1-5 for the manager and coaches, 7, 8 and 9 for catchers, 10-19 for infielders, 20s for outfielders, 30s and 40s for pitchers and rarely anything higher. One could still see vestiges of that system in the years following. WHPratt ( talk) 15:27, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
The entire article should be rewritten. I'm not going to go through each point here, but I'm going to add citation needed tags to the areas that I think need a source. — X96lee15 ( talk) 02:00, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
This is Buu Huu speaking. I don't think it says it on the article, but is it legal for a baseball player to wear a 3-digit number? Buu Huu
"Detroit Tigers center fielder Gabe Kapler also played a game with a blank jersey,[4] though it that case the Tigers were playing the final game at Tiger Stadium and the players were honoring the famous Tigers in each position. In Kapler's case he was honoring Ty Cobb, who's career pre-dated uniform numbers."
The Tigers did not retire any numbers until Al Kaline retired, and the alleged reason for this was the inability to so honor Cobb, who never had a number. One sportswriter argued that Cobb's non-number had a de facto retirement, in that nobody would ever wear no number for the Tigers again. WHPratt ( talk) 17:42, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Catcher Benito Santiago wore number "09" (zero-nine) for a time. He didn't like the way that the back strap of his chest protector covered a single-digit, centered number. This raises the question; is 09 different from just plain 9? It's mathematically the same, but graphically different. Could a team have both a 9 and an 09 (or any similiarly-paired numbers) on the roster? Allowing such semi-duplication could help matters when numbers are in short supply, as in football. WHPratt ( talk) 17:50, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
"On Jackie Robinson Day, teams across the MLB all wear uniform number 42 to honor him. The MLB has taken this tribute so far that, on that day only, all 30 team websites' active rosters say that every player on the team is number 42."
I'd be curious as to how they handle the display of the local lineups and of the out-of-town pitchers on the scoreboard. Do they show everybody as 42 (rendering these displays rather worthless) or instead use the players' usual numbers. It might vary by ballpark. WHPratt ( talk) 14:43, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
Isn't #49 mostly worn by a knuckleball pitcher? -- Full steam ( talk) 17:05, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
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