List of Major League Baseball retired numbers
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List of Major League Baseball retired numbers
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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 use of numbers on uniforms to better identify one player from another, and hence to boost sales of scorecards, was tried briefly by the Cleveland Indians of 1916, but this failed. The first team to permanently adopt the practice was the New York Yan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_retired_numbers
date created:
2004-05-20T07:58:39Z
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2024-09-11T01:58:41Z
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