{"id":16801,"date":"2021-04-25T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=16801"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:21:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:21:25","slug":"by-the-numbers-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/by-the-numbers-58\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 58"},"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 #58.\u00a0 25 players have donned #58 while playing in Chicago, 20 for the White Sox and 5 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Catcher Geovany Soto donned #58 during three cups of coffee with the Cubs, in 2005 – 2007.\u00a0 Earning increased playing time each year, he garnered a single at bat in 05, 25 in 06, and 54 in 07.\u00a0 He finally broke through in 2008, changing his number to #18 while earning Rookie of the Year honors.\u00a0 He remained the main backstop for the team until the 2012 season, when he was traded to the Rangers in August.<\/p>\n

On the south side of town, Bobby Thigpen wore #58 during his first go-around with the team, going 2-0 with a 1.77 ERA in 20 games for the 1986 White Sox.\u00a0 He switched to #37 the following year, which he wore for the remainder of his White Sox career, which ended with a 1993 trade to the Phillies.<\/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":[4591,120,143,115,254,111,6580,49,51],"class_list":["post-16801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-bobby-thigpen","tag-cubs","tag-geovany-soto","tag-indians","tag-phillies","tag-rangers","tag-rookie-of-the-year-award","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16801","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=16801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17178,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16801\/revisions\/17178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}