Unlucky #28

Crash Course · 07-14-2004, 12:24 AM

Can anyone name 5 great - or very, very, good - players to have worn the #28 in their career?

KCBOOMER · 07-14-2004, 09:18 AM

The following HoF players wore #28: Nellie Fox, Waite Hoyt, Joe Medwick, Gaylord Perry, Al Simmons, Duke Snider, and Bill Williams.

None of these guys had it with their prime years. It was a number they got when they first came up (Fox, Medwick, Perry), with another team late in their careers (Hoyt, Snider, and Williams), or when they returned to their primary team in the twilight of their careers (Simmons). Bucky Harris wore the number, but as a manager only.

Crash Course · 07-14-2004, 10:21 AM

Good work Boom.
I don't think a star ever wore it FT.

07-14-2004, 12:24 AM	#1
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07-14-2004, 10:21 AM	#3
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Good work Boom. I don't think a star ever wore it FT. __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

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07-14-2004, 09:18 AM	#2
KCBOOMER NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Home of the T-Bones Posts: 11,116	The following HoF players wore #28: Nellie Fox, Waite Hoyt, Joe Medwick, Gaylord Perry, Al Simmons, Duke Snider, and Bill Williams. None of these guys had it with their prime years. It was a number they got when they first came up (Fox, Medwick, Perry), with another team late in their careers (Hoyt, Snider, and Williams), or when they returned to their primary team in the twilight of their careers (Simmons). Bucky Harris wore the number, but as a manager only. __________________ KCBOOMER *Buck O'Neil: The Monarch of Baseball*

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