{"id":16815,"date":"2022-07-31T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T12:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16815"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T20:42:08","slug":"by-the-numbers-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/by-the-numbers-0\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7973\" 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 conclude our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams with #0.\u00a0 Only three players have donned #0 while playing in Chicago, all for the White Sox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Billy-Hamilton-White-Sox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18005 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Billy-Hamilton-White-Sox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Billy-Hamilton-White-Sox.jpg 600w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Billy-Hamilton-White-Sox-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Billy Hamilton signed with the White Sox during spring training of 2021 after being released by the Indians.\u00a0 He quickly became valuable outfield depth following the injuries to Adam Engel and Eloy Jimenez.\u00a0 He quickly became ingrained in the team&#8217;s culture and played his way into the fan&#8217;s hearts, thanks to, surprisingly, a pair of home runs over Memorial Day weekend and a tremendous catch in the rain and mud in Minnesota.<\/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],"class_list":["post-16815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815","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=16815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18006,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16815\/revisions\/18006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}