It’s been a while since the Houston Astros retired a number. But for the first ... (Note: Every MLB team retired Jackie Robinson’s No. 42 in 1997 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ...
Seeing the number featured in the ballpark with the rest of the retired numbers is cool and it's always an opportunity to ...
A couple of numbers, such as Jackie Robinson’s, have been retired by an entire league. However, not every retired number tracks entirely. They might make you pause for a second. We are ...
Fresh off his election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his final year on the ballot, Billy Wagner will receive the ...
Days after Billy Wagner was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Houston Astros are planning to retire Wagner’s number.
Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
Gene Kahane writes, "It seems this month, Black History Month, is the best time to look at race and sports because, to put it ...
Major League Baseball continues to make sure no one who cares about the game ever forgets Jackie Robinson ... coach and manager on April 15. Robinson's number is retired all across MLB.
Every MLB team has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the anniversary of his first appearance for the Dodgers, every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career ...
Billy Wagner is one of baseball's newest Hall of Famers, and he received another honor this week. The Houston Astros will retire his No. 13 this summer, the team announced Tuesday. The ceremony will ...
Ichiro will join fellow Hall of Famers Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, and Jackie Robinson as the only players to have their uniform number retired by the Mariners. The team announced Tuesday ...
Throughout Ichiro Suzuki’s Major League career, the now-Hall of Fame outfielder cloaked himself in an aura of mysticism. Ichiro acted like he knew something everyone else didn’t, from the psychedelic, ...