{"id":16602,"date":"2021-04-04T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16602"},"modified":"2021-01-30T16:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T22:13:30","slug":"by-the-numbers-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/by-the-numbers-60\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 60"},"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 #60.\u00a0 23 players have donned #60 while playing in Chicago, 17 for the White Sox and 6 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dallas Keuchel is the latest member of the White Sox to don #60.\u00a0 He joined the team in 2020 after signing a 3 year deal during the offseason.\u00a0 He went 6-2 with a 1.99 ERA in the corona virus shortened season, helping the White Sox to the postseason for the first time since 2008.\u00a0 He is expected to be a big part of the rotation this year as the team looks to make the postseason in consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Manny Corpas spent one season with the Cubs, wearing #60 during the 2012 campaign.\u00a0 He was not very good, going 0-2 with an ERA over 5.00, but he’s one of the few #60s for the Cubs that I recognized.<\/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":[120,6023,115,9302,49,51],"class_list":["post-16602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubs","tag-dallas-keuchel","tag-indians","tag-manny-corpas","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16602","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=16602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17073,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16602\/revisions\/17073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}