Who were the last three MLB players to wear #42?
Who will be the last man to wear it?
What is the only numbers retired for two players on the same team?
I think we all know which team has the most retired numbers, but which is #2?
What was the first number retired and who wore it?
Extra Credit: What was the second number retired?
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#8, worn by two stellar Yankee catchers, Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra
First retired…42 Jackie Robinson
Second…3 Babe Ruth ?
second most… Red Sox (been around a long time and did not move)?
Mariano Rivera. It’s way too late to come up with a new question at the moment, but maybe tomorrow…
ETA: Actually, I remembered one:
If a catcher uses a piece of equipment (i.e. his mask) to scoop up a live ball, what’s the penalty?
I don’t know which team is #2 in most numbers retired, but I know it isn’t the Red Sox, who only retired four numbers. And I have a question that relates to that:
The Red Sox actually changed the order in which their retired numbers were displayed in Fenway Park. Why?
It was originally in order of retirement. This looked like 1918.
You are right, but I am wrong. That was a typo, there are two other pairs of numbers, but both have technicalities.
I think the team would be one with a long history in one spot. It would be Cubs,Tigers,Indians,Redsox etc.
I now guess the Chicago Cubs.
Pretty sure it’s the Cardinals.
Lou Gehrig’s # 4
Babe Ruth’s # 3?
My questions for you folks:
What’s the only number (in baseball) that has ever been retired for a still-active player?
What’s the only number that has been retired to honor a man who never played or managed major league baseball?
For some reason Butch Huskey comes to mind.
Harold Baines is the player, but I don’t recall the number.
Correct, his # 3 was retired by the White Sox when it looked as if he had left the team for good. He came back later and wore it again.
Like hawkeyeop said, Harold Baines had his number retired a few times while he was still an active player.
Augustus Busch had number 85 retired for him by the Cardinals, despite the fact that he was only an owner. I’m suprised to hear he’s the only one, what with the number of Presidents and announcers who get honored by teams, that none of them have been similarly given a number.
Two bases, if he’s taken the mask off to scoop. If he can scoop the ball up while the mask’s still in its normal place, it’s in play as normal.
The Florida Marlins retired #5 in honor of Carl Barger, their president, who died in 1992 before the franchise played a game. The #5 is because his favorite player was Joe DiMaggio.
Huh, I’m out of date I guess. When I first heard this trivia question, the proper answer was Gene Autry, in whose honor “26” was retired by the <nebulous southern California location> Angels. (26 because he was like the 26th man on the roster to them.)
Tom and Jean Yawkey had their Morse Code initials “retired” in Boston, if that counts.
I don’t know what the second sentence was supposed to mean, but regarding the first half: close… but no cigar!
[spoiler]It’s an award of three bases to the batter (and runners, if applicable).
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2008/official_rules/07_the_runner.pdf (look at rule 7.05)
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ETA: Last year, Curtis Granderson and Jimmy Rollins became the third and fourth players in MLB history to have had 20 homers, 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 steals in a single season. Who was the last person to have accomplished this feat?
I guess it depends on whether the ball was thrown or not. The second half of my sentence referred to the idea that if the mask isn’t taken off his body, the watcher can still use it legally. 
Willie Mays ( I know he’s one of them… hopefully, he was the most recent)
Which brings up this one:
Other than Babe Ruth, what other member of the Baseball Hall of Fame wore #3 for the New York Yankees?
(This is not a trick question, BTW, so don’t look for obscure variations for any of the terms in it. They mean exactly what they seem to mean.)
Damn, that is good. Babe Ruth was the first to where #3 and five men wore it before it was retired in 1948. None of them of in the Hall of Fame.
George Selkirk(1935-42), Bud Methany(1943-46), Allie Clark(1947), Frank Colman(1947), Cliff Mapes(1947)
I am stumped or you are mistaken.