[Mick]

I don't know a thing about baseball, etc.

Here's a list of the most famous players in MLB history who wore each number:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1004...and-beyond

Looks like no 0.

BC

I think that was originally because the first numbers went with the batting order, so the 1927 Yankees batting order and their jersey numbers were identical:

1. Combs (.925)
2. Koenig (.702)
3. Ruth (1.258)
4. Gehrig (1.240)
5. Meusel (.902)
6. Lazzeri (.866)
7. Collins (.825)
8. Dugan (.683)

Oddball statistic for the 1927 Yanks.  Pitching staff strikeout leader Waite Hoyt only struck out 86 in 256 innings.  Other pitching oddity is that they used a five man rotation (Hoyt, Pennock, Shocker, Ruether, Pipgras) with Wilcy Moore and Myles Thomas making starts when the other starters needed a day off.

BTW, the OPS for the 1927 Yanks was legendary.  I left their OPS by each name in parens.

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I love the Cardboard so don't take this as a negative comment, but this is a pretty typical thread where we have pretty big news (first grad transfer in a few years) and there are only a couple comments on the football impact and three times as many comments talking about history (of jersey numbers in this case).

It's almost as if the threads drift away from the OP's focus...

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I love the Cardboard so don't take this as a negative comment, but this is a pretty typical thread where we have pretty big news (first grad transfer in a few years) and there are only a couple comments on the football impact and three times as many comments talking about history (of jersey numbers in this case).

It's almost as if the threads drift away from the OP's focus...

[Mick]

I don't know a thing about baseball, etc.

Here's a list of the most famous players in MLB history who wore each number:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1004...and-beyond

Looks like no 0.

BC

I think that was originally because the first numbers went with the batting order, so the 1927 Yankees batting order and their jersey numbers were identical:

1. Combs (.925)
2. Koenig (.702)
3. Ruth (1.258)
4. Gehrig (1.240)
5. Meusel (.902)
6. Lazzeri (.866)
7. Collins (.825)
8. Dugan (.683)

Oddball statistic for the 1927 Yanks.  Pitching staff strikeout leader Waite Hoyt only struck out 86 in 256 innings.  Other pitching oddity is that they used a five man rotation (Hoyt, Pennock, Shocker, Ruether, Pipgras) with Wilcy Moore and Myles Thomas making starts when the other starters needed a day off.

BTW, the OPS for the 1927 Yanks was legendary.  I left their OPS by each name in parens.

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I love the Cardboard so don't take this as a negative comment, but this is a pretty typical thread where we have pretty big news (first grad transfer in a few years) and there are only a couple comments on the football impact and three times as many comments talking about history (of jersey numbers in this case).

It's almost as if the threads drift away from the OP's focus...

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I love the Cardboard so don't take this as a negative comment, but this is a pretty typical thread where we have pretty big news (first grad transfer in a few years) and there are only a couple comments on the football impact and three times as many comments talking about history (of jersey numbers in this case).

It's almost as if the threads drift away from the OP's focus...