{"id":16549,"date":"2020-10-18T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16549"},"modified":"2020-10-11T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T16:47:01","slug":"by-the-numbers-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/by-the-numbers-96\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 96"},"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=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cws-chi.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/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 continue our look at those players, picking our favorite, if not the best, player to wear each uniform number for both Chicago teams with #96.\u00a0 A single players has donned #96 while playing in Chicago, for the 1950 Cubs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=16554\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16554\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16554\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/voiselle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Bill Voiselle, by default, is the best #96 in Chicago baseball history.\u00a0 Acquired prior to the 1950 season for future big league manager Gene Mauch, Voiselle went winless with an ERA over 5 before making his final big league appearance on July 8th.<\/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":[9070,120,9071,115,49,51],"class_list":["post-16549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-bill-voiselle","tag-cubs","tag-gene-mauch","tag-indians","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16555,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16549\/revisions\/16555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}