{"id":16588,"date":"2021-02-14T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16588"},"modified":"2021-01-29T17:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T23:47:26","slug":"by-the-numbers-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/by-the-numbers-67\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 67"},"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 continue our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams with #67.\u00a0 9 players have donned #67 while playing in Chicago, 8 for the White Sox and 1 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

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Jim Kern joined the White Sox in a August 1982 trade with the Reds, becoming the first player in Chicago baseball history to wear #67.\u00a0 He did not pitch particularly well for the South Siders down the stretch, putting up a 5.14 ERA in 13 games.\u00a0 He was expected back in the bullpen in 1983, but he blew out his elbow in the second game of the season and missed the rest of the year.\u00a0 When he was released towards the end of spring training in 1984, he accused the team of \u201cdestroying my arm and then shucking me off like last year\u2019s shotgun shells.\u201d\u00a0 GM Roland Hemond claimed it was strictly a business decision, as the team saved nearly $300,000 by releasing Kern.<\/p>\n

Tsuyoshi Wada, who appeared in 13 games and went 4-4 for the 2014 Cubs, is the only Cub to ever don #67.\u00a0 He switched to #18 the following year, appeared in only 8 games, and never played in the big leagues again.<\/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":[120,115,4133,53,4136,9297,49,51],"class_list":["post-16588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-jim-kern","tag-reds","tag-roland-hemond","tag-tsuyoshi-wada","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588","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=16588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17051,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16588\/revisions\/17051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}