# EZ Baseball Q: Who Was NY #8? Yogi?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 26, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ez-baseball-q-who-was-ny-8-yogi/145049 "2002-12-26T23:21:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ez-baseball-q-who-was-ny-8-yogi/145049/1 "2002-12-26T23:21:42Z")

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Was Yogi Beara (sp?) #8 for the NY Yankees? Whoever it was, he was in the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn(?) Dodgers. Can someone confirm if all this info is correct?

- Thanks, Jinx

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**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ez-baseball-q-who-was-ny-8-yogi/145049/2 "2002-12-26T23:25:38Z")

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Yes, and yes.

And it’s spelled Berra.

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**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ez-baseball-q-who-was-ny-8-yogi/145049/3 "2002-12-27T08:12:38Z")

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Yogi-\*\* whoever it was \*\*? What planet did you come from?He’s still doing commercials fercrissake.

The best bad ball hitter \*\* ever \*\* in the game.

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ez-baseball-q-who-was-ny-8-yogi/145049/4 "2002-12-27T14:24:19Z")

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And, just to add to the trivia quotient of this thread, Bill Dickey was also # 8 for the Yankees…and Yankees # 8 is the only number in baseball that’s been retired by the same club for two different players.

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**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ez-baseball-q-who-was-ny-8-yogi/145049/5 "2002-12-27T15:13:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by cmkeller \*  
> \*\*and Yankees # 8 is the only number in baseball that’s been retired by the same club for two different players. \*\*

Except for the Expos #10, for both Andre Dawson and Rusty Staub.

Zev Steinhardt

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ez-baseball-q-who-was-ny-8-yogi/145049/6 "2002-12-27T23:27:35Z")

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> xxx is the only number in baseball that’s been retired by the same club for two different players.

…as opposed to the **six** players who have have their (same) number retired by _two different_ clubs.