{"id":16596,"date":"2021-03-14T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16596"},"modified":"2021-01-30T15:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:36:28","slug":"by-the-numbers-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/by-the-numbers-63\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 63"},"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 #63.\u00a0 8 players have donned #63 while playing in Chicago, 5 for the White Sox and 3 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mattfoster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17065\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mattfoster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mattfoster.jpg 799w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mattfoster-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mattfoster-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt Foster made his major league debut for the White Sox in 2020, becoming the fifth player to wear #63 while going 6-1 with a 2.20 ERA en route to helping the White Sox earn their first playoff berth since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>On the north side of town, Kevin Gregg wore #63 during both of his stints with the Cubs, in 2009 and again in 2013.\u00a0 He notched 56 saves despite a 4.13 ERA.<\/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":[120,115,2631,9300,49,51],"class_list":["post-16596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-indians","tag-kevin-gregg","tag-matt-foster","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596","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=16596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17066,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16596\/revisions\/17066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}