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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.
(The last player to wear the Number 42 regularly was Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees, who retired at the end of the 2013 season. [19]) Selig embraced Griffey's gesture and encouraged other Major League Baseball clubs to have a player wear number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day as well. [12] [17]
The Yankees' Mariano Rivera, who retired at the end of the 2013 season, [283] [284] was the last player in Major League Baseball to wear jersey number 42 on a regular basis. Since 1997, only Wayne Gretzky 's number 99, retired by the NHL in 2000, and Bill Russell 's number 6, retired by the NBA in 2022, have been retired league-wide in any of ...
Two numbers, 8 and 42, were retired twice. National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Bill Dickey (1954) and Yogi Berra (1972) both wore 8 before the number was officially retired on July 22, 1972.
In 2008, Princeton University retired the number 42 for all Princeton Tigers sports teams in honor of Bill Bradley and Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier. [13] UCLA retired the same number in 2014 for all Bruins sports teams in honor of Jackie Robinson, who had played in four sports at the school before his Hall of Fame baseball career ...
Rivera has been ranked among the greatest baseball players of all time, with The Athletic ranking him 91st in 2019, [265] and ESPN.com ranking him 31st in 2022. [266] Two years later, ESPN.com ranked him 59th on its list of the top 100 professional athletes of the 21st century. [267] Mariano Rivera's number 42 was retired by the New York ...
The jersey number of Jackie Robinson, which is the only number retired by all Major League Baseball teams. Although the number was retired in 1997, Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees , the last professional baseball player to wear number 42, continued to wear it until he retired at the end of the 2013 season.
Bruce Sutter's number 42 was retired by the St. Louis Cardinals in 2006. Sutter's number 42, which he wore throughout his career, was retired by the St. Louis Cardinals during a ceremony at Busch Stadium on September 17, 2006. He shares his retired number with Jackie Robinson, whose number 42 was retired by all MLB teams in 1997. [37]