{"id":16543,"date":"2020-10-11T10:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16543"},"modified":"2020-10-11T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:21:47","slug":"by-the-numbers-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/by-the-numbers-99\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers – 99"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the Cubs boast 76.<\/p>\n

Today, we begin our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams, starting with #99.\u00a0 A grand total of 3 players have donned #99 while playing in Chicago, 1 for the White Sox and 2 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Manny Ramirez<\/a> spent a little more than a month with the White Sox, acquired off waivers from the Dodgers at the end of August in 2010.\u00a0 The White Sox were hoping there was still some life in the 38-year old slugger as they hoped to make up a 4 game deficit and overtake the Twins for the AL Central title, but he managed just a single home run and only 2 RBI.\u00a0 Following the season, he became a free agent.<\/p>\n

On the north side of town, of the two instances of a player wearing #99, the nod has to go to So Taguchi.\u00a0 Appearing in 6 games in 2009, Taguchi hit .273 as he wound down his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1929, uniform numbers appeared on the back of baseball jerseys for the first time, thanks to the Indians and the Yankees.\u00a0 By 1937, numbers finally appeared across all uniforms, both home and away, across both major leagues.\u00a0 Since that time, 81 distinct numbers have been worn by members of the White Sox, while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[120,116,115,2451,6198,118,49,51],"class_list":["post-16543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-indians","tag-manny-ramirez","tag-so-taguchi","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16544,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions\/16544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}