lou gehrig was the first baseball player to have their number retired.
lou gehrig was the first baseball player to have their number retired.
who was the first baseball player to have their number retired?
lou gehrig
the first major league baseball player to have his number retired was lou gehrig (#4). #4 and #5 have each been retired by 8 teams, more than any other number. the highest player uniform number to be retired was carlton fisk's #72, but the cardinals retired #85 in honor of their one-time owner august busch, jr.. though he never wore a uniform, that is how old he was at the time of the honor. the cleveland indians retired the #455 in 2001 in honor of "the fans", to commemorate the then-longest home sellout streak ever (although mlb does not allow any team to issue three-digit uniform numbers).
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the chiefs retired four numbers: the numbers of don hall, dick roberge, galen head and reg kent, all of whom had played for the johnstown jets. former chiefs forward dmitri tarabrin had his number retired by the wheeling nailers in december 2010, during a "split home game" played in johnstown.









































bullet::::- 7 – reg kent, number retired in 2009.









































bullet::::- 8 – galen head, number retired in 2003









































bullet::::- 9 – don hall, number retired in 1990









































bullet::::- 11 – dick roberge, number retired in 1990









































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