{"id":16570,"date":"2020-12-20T02:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T08:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16570"},"modified":"2020-11-24T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:49:52","slug":"by-the-numbers-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/by-the-numbers-75\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 75"},"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 #75.\u00a0 Once again, a single player has donned #75 while playing in Chicago, debuting in 2000 for the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ymercedes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16692\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ymercedes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ymercedes.jpg 512w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ymercedes-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a>Yermin Mercedes appeared in 1 game for the 2020 White Sox, going hitless in his lone at bat.<\/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":[120,115,49,51,9092],"class_list":["post-16570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees","tag-yermin-mercedes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570","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=16570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16693,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570\/revisions\/16693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}