{"id":16799,"date":"2021-04-18T07:55:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16799"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:09:58","slug":"by-the-numbers-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/by-the-numbers-59\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 59"},"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 #59.\u00a0 15 players have donned #59 while playing in Chicago, 6 for the White Sox and 3 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

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Acquired in 1984 from the Mariners for\u00a0Salome Barojas, Gleaton put up good numbers in Triple A for the White Sox and was eventually called up to the big leagues, appearing in 11 games.\u00a0\u00a0Gleaton again split the 1985 season between Triple A and the White Sox, with more success in Triple A. \u00a0He made it in to 31 games for the White Sox, but put up a 5.76 ERA.\u00a0 He then\u00a0spent all of 1986 in Triple A before leaving the White Sox organization as a free agent.<\/p>\n

On the north side of town, Rodney Myers donned #59 from 1996 through 1999, putting up a 5-2 record with a 4.90 ERA, before being traded to the Padres for Gary Matthews Jr.<\/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":[120,2447,115,4124,124,231,9321,4125,49,51],"class_list":["post-16799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-gary-matthews-jr","tag-indians","tag-jerry-don-gleaton","tag-mariners","tag-padres","tag-rodney-myers","tag-salome-barojas","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799","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=16799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17176,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16799\/revisions\/17176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}