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Roy Halladay 's #32 was retired by the Blue Jays, and his #34 is retired by the Phillies. Jackie Robinson ’s #42 has been retired by every team in MLB, due to him breaking the color barrier in baseball. Gil Hodges ' #14 was retired by the Mets and Dodgers. Willie Mays ' #24 was retired by the Giants and Mets.
Squad number, as depicted on an association football jersey. In team sports, the number, often referred to as the uniform number, squad number, jersey number, shirt number, sweater number, or similar (with such naming differences varying by sport and region) is the number worn on a player's uniform, to identify and distinguish each player (and sometimes others, such as coaches and officials ...
Saina Nehwal ( pronunciation ⓘ; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking, thereby becoming the only ...
In Major League Baseball, player and manager numbers are always located on the back of the jersey. A smaller number is often found on the front of the jersey, while umpires wear their numbers on the uniform shirt sleeve. According to common tradition, single-digit numbers are worn by position players but rarely by pitchers, and numbers 60 and ...
1. This table shows the number of athletes who have appeared at exactly (or at least) n Olympic Games between 1896 and 2022, as n varies from 5 to 10. For example, 26 men have appeared at exactly seven Olympics while 38 men have appeared in at least seven Olympics. Appearances at the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included.
There are 32 teams, with 25 in the U.S. and 7 in Canada. The most popular sports league in Canada, and widely followed across the northern and northeastern U.S., the NHL has expanded westward and southward in recent decades to attempt to gain a more national following in the United States, in cities such as Denver, San Jose, Dallas, Miami ...
The world's most valuable sports teams, as ranked annually by the American magazine Forbes, include teams from association football, American football, baseball, and basketball . In 2016, the National Football League (NFL)'s Dallas Cowboys simultaneously became both the first team to surpass $4 billion in value and the first non–association ...
40 – Oldham Athletic reserve the number for their fans. 55 – Rochdale retired the number on 13 January 2017 in honour of five-year old Joshua McCormack who died of cancer. 58 – Portsmouth retired the number for their mascot Nelson, with Nelson’s name and number appearing on club issued match day programmes