{"id":18820,"date":"2022-04-03T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2022-03-27T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:19:41","slug":"by-the-numbers-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/by-the-numbers-15\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers – 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 #15.\u00a0 98 different players have donned #15 while playing in Chicago, 44 for the White Sox and 54 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dick Allen was acquired after the 1971 season, when attendance at Comiskey Park had cratered and the team had finished 22\u00bd games out of first place.\u00a0 The addition of Allen, donning #15, sparked an unforeseen pennant race in 1972, with the Sox in contention for most of the season, finishing 5\u00bd games behind the A\u2019s in the AL West and drawing more than 1.18 million fans, more than double what they drew in 1970.\u00a0 Allen only spent 3 years in Chicago, making the All Star team each time.\u00a0 A broken leg cut short his 1973 campaign and, with two weeks to go in the 1974 season, Allen left the team over a feud with teammate Ron Santo.\u00a0 Not knowing if Allen planned to return to baseball, the Sox sold his contract to the Braves for $5000, at which point Allen temporarily retired.<\/p>\n

Acquired by the Cubs for the stretch run in 1984, Davey Lopes switched to his familiar #15 in 1985.\u00a0 Appearing in 99 games in his age 40 season, Lopes stole 47 bases, his highest total since 1977.\u00a0 He made his way into 59 games in 1986 before being traded to the Astros for Frank DiPino.<\/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":[123,113,125,597,120,10017,2837,10018,115,1551,49,51],"class_list":["post-18820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-astros","tag-braves","tag-comiskey-park","tag-cubs","tag-davey-lopes","tag-dick-allen","tag-frank-dipino","tag-indians","tag-ron-santo","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820","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=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18874,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/18874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}