What athlete do you associate with each number?

[YankeeFan]

Number 9 is a tough one. Is it Ted Williams or Gordie Howe?

Let's start it off with #1. To me, it's Billie Martin, but I'm sure there are better answers.

My bias will show in many of the single digit numbers, as they belonged to Hall of Fame Yankees.

 

[wicked]

Great idea for a thread. Are we doing this numerically, or just throwing stuff out there?

The obvious:
3 -- Ruth
7 -- Mantle

A little different:
27/72 -- Fisk

 

[Songbird]

I did a story on this years ago but localized it. I also found a newspaper article that did it from 0 to 99 -- I think it was a Florida paper ca. 2006.

Here's a more recent one ...

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[heyabbott]

23 Jordan
32 Brown
33 Jabbar

 

[Songbird]

3 -- Earnhardt?

 

[Songbird]

32 Magic > Brown

 

[wicked]

12 Brady
2 Ellsbury/Bogaerts (I kid)

 

[wicked]

43 Petty

Brown and Magic are a push. They both made significant cultural contributions (The Magic Johnson Show is the best worst TV of all time).

 

[Rainman]

99 - Gretzky

What do I win?

 

[Spartan Squad]

16 - Montana
80 - Rice

No. 2 is hard, do you go with Jeter or Bob Sheppard?

 

[Huggy]

4 - Bobby Orr
13 - Marino

 

[YankeeFan]

43 Petty

Brown and Magic are a push. They both made significant cultural contributions (The Magic Johnson Show is the best worst TV of all time).

Chevy Chase?

 

[wicked]

True, that was brutal.

 

[YankeeFan]

66 - Lemieux
68 - Jagr
77 - Esposito (I know he didn't wear it his whole career.)

 

[Gator]

When I was a kid and at a place with my mom where I didn't want to (say, the grocery store), I would pass the time by thinking of at least two players with a number, going from 1 to as high as I could. Just quickly off the top of my head (and this is off the top of my head, making it a very personal list):

1. Moon
2. Jetes
3. Ruth
4. Orr
5. Nomaahhhh
6. Bubby Brister (absolutely no idea why)
7. Elway
8. Bo Jackson (with the White Sox)
9. Williams

Others:
12. Brady
13. Marino
18. Manning
19. Yzerman
20. Barry Sanders
21. Deion Sanders
22. Emmitt Smith
23. Jordan
32. Magic
33. Bird
34. Bo Jackson (Raiders)
40. Shawn Kemp
56. Lawrence Taylor
99. Gretzky

 

[Jake_Taylor]

For me:

5 is George Brett
42 Jackie Robinson
16 Joe Montana
58 Derrick Thomas
00 Greg Ostertag

 

[Vombatus]

50 Ralph Sampson

 

[Killick]

I think number 2 should be Najeh Davenport.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

34 is not Bo Jackson. It's Sweetness.

 

[BTExpress]

13 - Marino

No!
No!
A thousand times no!
20,000 times no!