The New York Yankees were the first team to begin
regularly wearing uniform numbers. A tradition dating
back to 1929. Other teams before 1929 tried putting
numbers on their uniforms, but mostly on an experimental
only basis, usually not lasting longer than a season or
sometimes even past a few games. The Yankees were
the first to implement uniform numbers and maintain the
practice indefinitely.
This website attempts to make it easy to find
who wore what numbers in what year since they began
wearing numbers in 1929. It's not 100% complete,
so if there's any information you can help with, please
feel free to contact me to fill in the blanks.
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