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(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]
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. This meant that no future player on any major league team could wear number 42, although players wearing #42 at the time were allowed to continue wearing it ( Mariano Rivera was ...
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 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 ...
Here is a list of every player in the long history of the Philadelphia 76ers who has worn the No. 42 uniform.
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]
The number 10 he wore was retired by Napoli in 2000 [24] Association football has a far shorter history of players wearing squad numbers; from the introduction of numbers of shirts in the 1930s until the 1990s, the players on a team almost always wore numbers 1 to 11, irrespective of which players were selected. This meant that players often ...
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.