Retired numbers

[wdm1219inpenna]

I just read where the Yankees are going to retire Joe Torre's uniform number 6 sometime this August during a ceremony at Yankee Stadium. I believe he is most deserving of this honor.

It is all but a foregone conclusion that the Yankees will also retire Derek Jeter's uniform number 2 sometime in the future. This will mean that the Yankees will no longer have any single digit uniform numbers to assign to new players or managers or coaches, unless the number "0" is allowed. I don't see that happening.

1- Billy Martin

2 - Derek Jeter (future)

3- George Herman "Babe" Ruth

4- Henry Louis Gehrig

5 - "Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio

6 - Joe Torre (future)

7 - Mickey Mantle

8 - Bill Dickey

8 - Yogi Berra

9 - Roger Maris

10 - Phil Rizzuto

So the numbers 1-10 will be out of commission. 42 for Jackie Robinson is gone, and it also seems a foregone conclusion that the Yankees will also re-retire 42 in honor of Mariano Rivera.

[McCall]

0 is allowed to be worn, at least by MLB. Adam Ottavino wears it with the Rockies. Whether the Yankees would issue it out themselves is another thing.

[NJTank]

Carlos Quintania wwas wearing it for the Mets earlier this year, but I have never seen a 0 on the Yankees

[wdm1219inpenna]

Somehow I can't picture the Yankees assigning the number 0 to a player. A mascot perhaps, but not a player. I never understood why any player would even want the number 0. I remember Jim Otto of the Oakland Raiders wearing 00 (double zero) which was amusing and awkward too. If nothing else, it made him memorable, or his uniform anyway.

[NJTank]

I think some players do it because they have a name that begins with O Al Oliver for instence, perhaps the best player ever to be a Zero. (Borderline HOF)

[BBTV]

Omar Olivaris used to say that he didn't wear a number, but rather his initials.

[The_Admiral]

Relief pitcher Rick White wore #00 with several teams.

Obligatory mention of how wearing 0 or 00 BSODs the NHL's player database.

[Cosmic]

Relief pitcher Rick White wore #00 with several teams.

Obligatory mention of how wearing 0 or 00 BSODs the NHL's player database.

Maybe when they update their computers to Windows: Millennium Edition, we can have players wear 00 again.

[TheRicSlick]

Relief pitcher Rick White wore #00 with several teams.

Obligatory mention of how wearing 0 or 00 BSODs the NHL's player database.

Maybe when they update their computers to Windows: Millennium Edition, we can have players wear 00 again.

They still need to updated to Windows:Stone Age Edition.

[sportsfan0518]

Carlos Quintania wwas wearing it for the Mets earlier this year, but I have never seen a 0 on the Yankees

Don't you mean Omar Quintanilla? I know who you are talking about initially, I just wanted to confirm it.

[infrared41]

Ken Burrough of the Oilers wore 00.

Jeffrey Leonard wore 00 with the SF Giants and the Mariners

They're the only other ones I can remember off the top of my head.

[Gothamite]

The Brewers have had players wear #0 and 00.

In the early 1990s, Franklin Stubbs switched from his #28 to #0.

More recently, Curtis Leskanic wore the double.

So the numbers 1-10 will be out of commission. 42 for Jackie Robinson is gone, and it also seems a foregone conclusion that the Yankees will also re-retire 42 in honor of Mariano Rivera.

Indeed - they did it last year.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/nyy/new-york-yankees-retire-mariano-riveras-no-42-on-special-day-in-bronx?ymd=20130922&content_id=61380690

[DC in Da House w/o a Doubt]

Not too related but this story made me chuckle:

@pgammo: Fave Elijah Dukes story:during a game, noting how many parks had 42 blaques, said, "Jackie sure played for a lot of teams."