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Old Tue Jun 12, 2007, 02:18pm
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Yeah, it was too easy. I had heard that, but forgotten until today when I read that the numbers were introduced in '29 on the Yankees. Other teams had used them much earlier (the Reds in 1888; the Indians in '16), but it never caught on until the Yankees did it.
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