{"id":17521,"date":"2021-07-11T04:02:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T10:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2021-06-12T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T20:20:10","slug":"by-the-numbers-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/by-the-numbers-47\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 47"},"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 #47.\u00a0 73 players have donned #47 while playing in Chicago, 38 for the White Sox and 35 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The somewhat unfortunately named Rusty Kuntz spent parts of 5 seasons with the White Sox, wearing #47 the entire time.\u00a0 He was\u00a0selected by the White Sox in the 11th round of the 1977 draft and made his major league debut 2 years later as a September call-up in 1979, starting in left field and going 0-3 in a 4-3 victory over the Tigers en route to 5 appearances and an anemic .091 average.\u00a0 Kuntz split time between Triple A Iowa and Chicago in 1980, with slightly better results, before spending the entire strike-shortened 1981 season with the White Sox, appearing in 67 games and batting .255 in a mere 55 at bats.\u00a0 Both 1982 and 1983 saw Kuntz back splitting time between Triple A and Chicago, until he was finally traded to the Twins for a minor leaguer.<\/p>\n

Catcher Miguel Montero wore #47 during his 2 1\/2 years on the North side.\u00a0 He had a few highlights, including his Game One grand slam in the 2016 NLCS against the Dodgers to give the Cubs the win.\u00a0 His tenure with the Cubs came to an abrupt end<\/a> the following June when, after\u00a0the Nationals stole 7 bases in one game to leave him at 0-31 at nabbing would-be base stealers for the season, he placed the blame on the pitching staff.\u00a0 The next day, he was designated for assignment.<\/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":[5205,120,116,2501,115,5254,5172,117,1647,5255,230,118,49,51],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-1981-strike","tag-cubs","tag-dodgers","tag-draft","tag-indians","tag-iowa-oaks","tag-miguel-montero","tag-nationals","tag-nlcs","tag-rusty-kuntz","tag-tigers","tag-twins","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521","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=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17522,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}