{"id":18892,"date":"2022-06-19T05:18:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T11:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=18892"},"modified":"2022-03-27T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T21:37:28","slug":"by-the-numbers-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/by-the-numbers-5\/","title":{"rendered":"By The Numbers \u2013 5"},"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 #5.\u00a0 75 different players have donned #5 while playing in Chicago, 42 for the White Sox and 33 for the Cubs.<\/p>\n

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Selected in the fifth round of the 1990 draft, Ray Durham broke camp with the White Sox in 1995 and, wearing #5, made his major league debut on Opening Day, leading off and going 1-4 in the 12-3 loss to the Brewers at County Stadium.\u00a0 Durham stuck in the leadoff spot and finished the year with a .257 average, 7 home runs, and 51 RBI, good enough for a 6th place finish in Rookie of the Year voting.\u00a0 He\u00a0saw improvement in 1996, raising his average to .275 and his OBP to .350.\u00a0 His home run and RBI totals also jumped, going to 10 and 65 respectively.\u00a0 1997 was another good year for Durham, as he hit .271 with 11 home runs.<\/p>\n

In 1998, Durham earned his first All Star nod and finished the year setting career highs with a .285 average, 19 home runs, 67 RBIs, and 36 stolen bases.\u00a0 Durham improved his average again in 1999, raising it to .296, his career best.\u00a0 It was also his second of seven straight years with an OPS over .800.\u00a0 Durham nabbed his second All Star selection in 2000.\u00a0 When the season came to an end, Durham had a .280 average with 17 home runs and 75 RBIs and the White Sox were atop the AL Central for the first time.\u00a0 Like the rest of his teammates, Durham struggled during the ALDS, hitting .200 in the three game sweep against the Mariners.<\/p>\n

2001 saw Durham\u2019s average drop to .267, his lowest total since his rookie year.\u00a0 He did manage to set a new career high with 20 home runs as the White Sox failed to repeat.\u00a0 Durham was hitting .299 with 9 home runs at the trade deadline in 2002 when, facing free agency,\u00a0he was shipped to the A\u2019s for Jon Adkins. \u00a0At the time of the trade, Durham\u00a0was the club\u2019s all-time leader in leadoff home runs, while placing in the top 10 in franchise history in steals (5th), doubles (7th), extra base hits (7th), and runs (8th).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Michael Barrett wore #5 for the Cubs when he was acquired for the 2004 season.\u00a0 Barrett gave up his cherished # 5 in early August, handing it over to the newly acquired shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, while switching to #8, in tribute to former Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra.<\/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":[123,2180,121,614,120,44,115,4090,124,874,5161,876,6580,49,51,5649],"class_list":["post-18892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-as","tag-alds","tag-brewers","tag-county-stadium","tag-cubs","tag-hof","tag-indians","tag-jon-adkins","tag-mariners","tag-michael-barrett","tag-nomar-garciaparra","tag-ray-durham","tag-rookie-of-the-year-award","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees","tag-yogi-berra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892","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=18892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18894,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18892\/revisions\/18894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}