{"id":16564,"date":"2020-11-29T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T08:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16564"},"modified":"2020-11-24T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:27:19","slug":"by-the-numbers-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/by-the-numbers-79\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7973 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi-300x182.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/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<p>Today, we continue our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams with #79.\u00a0 Once again, a single player has donned #79 while playing in Chicago, debuting in 2014 for the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6924\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu.jpg 819w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/abreu-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s a shame that Jose Abreu is the only player to wear #79 in White Sox history, as he would easily beat out the competition had there been any.\u00a0 He was signed by the White Sox in October of 2013 after defecting from Cuba in August.\u00a0 He made his major league debut the following March and took home Rookie of the Year honors in 2014.\u00a0 He topped that this past season, bringing home the <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/mvpito\/\">MVP<\/a> in the corona virus shortened season, leading the White Sox to the post-season for the first time since 2008.\u00a0 He wears #79 because it was picked by his mother. so that people would remember him.\u00a0 She wasn&#8217;t wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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":[8844,120,115,4187,79,6580,49,51],"class_list":["post-16564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-corona-virus","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-jose-abreu","tag-mvp","tag-rookie-of-the-year-award","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564","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=16564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16685,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16564\/revisions\/16685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}