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Normally the individual clubs are responsible for retiring numbers. On April 15, 1997, Major League Baseball took the unusual move of retiring a number for all teams. On the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the baseball color line, his number 42 was retired throughout the majors, at the order of Commissioner Bud Selig.
During the 2007 regular season, Ken Griffey Jr. called Bud Selig to ask for permission to wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day. [12] [17] Griffey received special permission from Rachel Robinson to wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day of 2007. [18] Number 42 had been retired for all Major League Baseball teams. This meant that no future Major ...
The last person to wear #42 in the Major Leagues was Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees, who retired following the 2013 season; the last person to wear #42 in Minor League Baseball was Art Silber, owner of and occasional coach for the Potomac Nationals until his retirement from coaching in 2012. [51]
As of April 15, 1997 #42 was retired except for players wearing the number prior to it being retired. Mariano Rivera was the last player to wear #42 when he retired in 2013. Every April 15 since 2009 every player, manager, and umpire wears #42 to commemorate Jackie Robinson. April 15 is now known as Jackie Robinson day. [11]
It is wholly appropriate that Mariano was the last Major League player to wear Jackie Robinson's sacred number 42." [210] A ball onto which Roy Halladay traced Rivera's cutter grip as a reference, as seen in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Rivera's cut fastball was a respected pitch among major league players.
League 42 — named for Robinson’s uniform number when he became the first Black player to get into the Major Leagues — is based at McAdams Park in the heart of Wichita’s Black community.
As a Met, Huskey started out his career in 1993 wearing number 10, and then wore the number 42 for the rest of his Met career from 1995 to 1998 when Major League Baseball retired the number in honor of Jackie Robinson on April 15, 1997, in a game between the Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers at Shea Stadium.
The jersey with number 42 was taken from him at the end of the season — the Dodgers were planning to retire Jackie Robinson's number — and at the start of the 1970 season, he was given number 34. Wearing his new number, he never quite regained the magic of his first two months, finishing the 1970 season with a 6-1 record and a 3.79 ERA. [3]