eighty lopes

today is davey lopes' 80th birthday. he is the oldest of the infield foursome that featured steve garvey, ron cey, and bill russell alongside lopes himself. the three other guys were all born in 1948, by the way. it's a big number for lopes, and reminds me that time waits for no man. here's my newest davey lopes card - his 2004 topps all-time fan favorites autograph

here's the back:

i've been somewhat focused on dodger archives and atff autos over the past few months after finding a ron cey auto at a card show for 3 bucks.

i am reminded that i missed another 80th birthday about a month ago. that would be lopes' teammates reggie smith and (the late) don sutton. they were both born on april 2, 1945 and so a belated happy birthday to "my" reggie.

i added a couple of items for those birthday buddies in a recent comc order:

those are their 1982 fleer stamps, and they are decent additions to my post-dodger collections of the two former dodger all-stars.

i think the oldest member of the 1978 topps dodgers is manny mota, who turned 87 in february, and i believe that rick monday will be the next to hit 80 - in november. today, however, belongs to lopes, and so happy birthday to the second baseman of the team of my youth!

the almost daily dodger - charlie hough

i had the opportunity a couple of months ago to add charlie hough's 2004 topps all-time fan favorites refractor

for just a couple of bucks so here we are. these are really great cards but are tough to come by for reasonable amounts.

the back of hough's card is limited to his dodger tenure

but we know he went on to pitch another 15 seasons for a variety of teams. it's worth noting that kenley jansen and clayton kershaw have passed hough in terms of games pitched for the dodgers, but he's still 7th among los angeles dodgers (8th including brooklyn stats).

i like the fact that, in addition to pitching for the dodgers, rangers, and white sox, hough finished his career with the marlins. that fact comes in handy on immaculate grid sometimes when the marlins show up as i try each day to complete the grid using only players that were in the 1978 topps set. i've never been able to complete a marlins inclusive grid with all 1978 topps players though, as the only three people i can use are hough, andre dawson, and bob mcclure and the grids haven't aligned properly as of yet.

hough also won more than 200 games and recorded more than 2,000 strikeouts in his career, so he has a fair amount of flexibility among the most common pitching categories used in the grid. and, if they ever run a category of hawaiian born players, he would fit there, too.

i last used hough on the grid a few days ago, thanks to his dodger/ranger status.

this one netted a score of 18 which is not bad for a group of 1978 topps folks. maybe i should have used burt hooton instead of hough. i'll use jerry grote or ted martinez as my dodger/met and i go back and forth between keith hernandez and tom veryzer as my indian/met. toby harrah popped into my head even though i typically use bert blyleven or gaylord perry as my ranger/indian.

hough wasn't involved, but just this morning i had my best grid ever.

not only are all the players from the 1978 topps set

they are also all former dodgers. i will admit that i only know that pat zachry hit .300 in a season because of previous grids, but now that i know he's fair game. 

my retired number collection - 35

this is the 35th post in a series that shares the cards i have in my retired number mini-collection. you can find the links to the previous posts down at the bottom of this post. if you're eager to learn more right now, you can check out the full list of retired numbers along with what this collection will entail over at my want list site.

without further ado, here are the three people for whom number 35 has been retired:

phil niekro (retired by the braves in 1984) 1978 topps

it took five ballots for niekro to be elected to the hall of fame which blew my mind as the guy had over 300 wins and 3000 strikeouts which to me were automatics for induction. at any rate, he made it in 1997 which was 13 years after the braves had retired his number.

niekro pitched for the braves from 1964 through 1983, but when he refused to retire, he was released by the club in october of '83. he signed with the yankees and the braves decided to honor him by retiring his number on august 6, 1984. he was the last brave to wear the number, doing so when he returned to the club for his final big league appearance in 1987. 

during his primary stint with the braves, niekro led the league in era in 1967 and in wins in 1974 and 1979. of course, he also led the league in losses four straight seasons from 1977 through 1980. still, his knuckleball is legendary, and he remains the franchise's all-time leader in games pitched (as well as losses, walks, and wild pitches) and if it weren't for about 100 john smoltz strikeouts, he would be the top in that category, too. i think this is the only jacket number in this collection, but it's niekro's 1978 topps card and so it makes the grade! 

randy jones (retired by the padres in 1997) 2004 topps all-time fan favorites

it's fitting that i am using a fan favorites card to represent jones in this collection, because his presence here is, i think, partly due to his status as a padre fan favorite. he was the first padre to win the cy young award, doing so in 1976 (after finishing second in the voting in 1975), and he was the first padre pitcher to lead the league in era and/or wins. he twice won 20 or more games for the padres (the only pitcher in franchise history to do so), and no other pitcher in team history has made more starts or pitched more innings.

after retirement, jones became a fixture at the ballpark with a bbq stand and worked as part of the padres' gameday announcing crew. because of his place in franchise history and his continuing ties to the team, the padres retired his number on may 9, 1997 (making al osuna the last padre to wear the number) and made him one of the first inductees into their hall of fame two years later. 

frank thomas (retired by the white sox in 2010) 1991 topps

thomas was the last person to wear number 35 for the white sox as the team kept it out of circulation from 2006 until they retired it on august 29, 2010, just a few months after he formally announced his retirement as a player. his 1991 topps card shows his number nicely with the pinstripe uniforms that i most closely associate with "his" era of southside baseball.

thomas spent the first 16 years of his career with the white sox, racking up 448 home runs and posting an ops of 0.995. he won back-to-back mvp awards in 1993 and 1994, and had a total of five top-five finishes in the mvp voting during his time in chicago. it was unfortunate that he missed the team's 2005 postseason run due to injury because he was such a force up until that point. he remains the franchise's all-time leader in homers, rbi, obp, slugging, ops, runs scored, walks, and extra base hits. he was a no doubt hall of famer, and got the call to cooperstown on his first ballot in 2014.

it's worth noting that the phillies are honoring cole hamels, who wore number 35 for them, tonight with a retirement ceremony. the ceremony is for hamels who only recently formally announced his retirement, and not for his number. david dahl, who had been wearing 35, is going to switch to a different number, so i guess for the time being the phillies are keeping the number out of circulation.

as for future 35 retirements, i think justin verlander is a lock - likely by the astros and tigers. in fact, the tigers haven't given anyone else number 35 since he left in 2017. i also thought that the orioles might retire it for mike mussina after he made the hall of fame, but they didn't. adley rutschman is currently wearing the number, so maybe in 15 years or so it will be up for discussion.

i am tracking a few things as we go, even though the information is already available elsewhere.

retired numbers by team (through the 35 posts so far):

yankees - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 32, 42

giants - 3, 4, 11, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 30, 42

pirates - 1, 4, 8, 9, 11, 20, 21, 33, 42

guardians - 3, 5, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 42, 455

red sox - 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 26, 27, 34, 42

phillies - 1, 14, 15, 20, 32, 34, 42

cardinals - 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 20, 23, 24, 42, 85

reds - 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20, 24, 42

braves - 3, 6, 10, 21, 25, 31, 35, 42

astros - 5, 7, 24, 25, 32, 33, 34, 42

mets - 14, 16, 17, 18, 24, 31, 42

orioles - 4, 5, 8, 20, 22, 33, 42

dodgers - 1, 2, 4, 14, 19, 20, 24, 32, 34, 42

twins - 3, 6, 7, 10, 14, 28, 34, 42

white sox - 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 35, 42, 72

brewers - 1, 4, 19, 34, 42

tigers - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 16, 23, 42

cubs - 10, 14, 23, 26, 31, 42

royals - 5, 10, 20, 42

padres - 6, 19, 31, 35, 42

athletics - 9, 24, 27, 34, 42

angels - 11, 26, 30, 42

expos - 8, 10, 30, 42

rangers - 7, 10, 26, 34, 42

major league baseball - 42

rays - 12, 42, 66

diamondbacks - 20, 42

blue jays - 32, 42

rockies - 17, 33, 42

mariners - 11, 24, 42

nationals - 11, 42

marlins - 42

retired number frequency:

1 - retired by 9 teams

2 - retired by 5 teams

3 - retired by 7 teams

4 - retired by 8 teams

5 - retired by 7 teams

6 - retired by 7 teams

7 - retired by 4 teams

8 - retired by 6 teams (retired by yankees for two players)

9 - retired by 6 teams

10 - retired by 9 teams (retired by expos for two players)

11 - retired by 8 teams

12 - retired by 1 team

13 - retired by 1 team

14 - retired by 10 teams (retired by mets and dodgers for same person)

15 - retired by 2 teams

16 - retired by 4 teams

17 - retired by 3 teams

18 - retired by 3 teams (includes mets who will formally retire the number in 2024) 

19 - retired by 5 teams

20 - retired by 11 teams (retired by orioles, reds, and guardians for same person)

21 - retired by 4 teams

22 - retired by 2 teams

23 - retired by 4 teams

24 - retired by 8 teams (retired by giants and mets for same person)

25 - retired by 4 teams

26 - retired by 4 teams

27 - retired by 3 teams

28 - retired by 1 team

29 - retired by 4 teams (retired by twins and angels for same person)

30 - retired by 3 teams

31 - retired by 4 teams (retired by cubs and braves for same person; retired by cubs for two players)

32 - retired by 5 teams

33 - retired by 4 teams

34 - retired by 8 teams (retired by astros and rangers for same person; retired by brewers and a's for same person; retired by a's for two players)

35 - retired by 3 teams

42 - retired by 30 teams (retired by cardinals and yankees for individuals in addition to jackie robinson)

66 - retired by 1 team

72 - retired by 1 team

85 - retired by 1 team

455 - retired by 1 team

unnumbered players - 12 players recognized by 4 teams

running total of unique hall of famers (including those without numbers): 142

running total of non-hall of famers: 50

a couple more all-time (fan favorites) great pulls

when i was thinking about cards to show in the recent blog bat around post about "best" pulls from packs, there were a couple of cards that came to mind that ultimately didn't make the cut. i figured i would show them now.

back in 2003, i bought a box of topps all-time fan favorites, just as i had done in 2001 and 2002 with their (relatively boring) archives releases, and just as i would do in 2004 and 2005 as they continued the retired player with new photos on old design smorgasbord. i don't recall if all of the boxes yielded two autos and one relic, but it seemed like that is what i found - certainly in 2003. 

that year, the fan favorite boxes netted me a bruce sutter auto that i still have in my collection, along with this mark fidrych autograph

the fact that topps used the 1978 design for this card is just icing on the cake. i was a little too young to appreciate fidrych's peak, but i knew all about him by the time the 1978 season ended. this card is not part of my 1978 master set because fidrych has a base card in the fan favorites set. a few years later, topps issued some 1978 topps design cards only as autos, but not this one. instead, the fidrych auto sits with my complete set, as does the relic that was in my box:

you don't see too many curt flood cards in modern sets, let alone relics, so i was pretty pleased with what i came away with.

i recently realized that neither my 2004 nor 2005 fan favorites sets were complete, but that was remedied in quick order. unfortunately, i didn't keep my autos or relics from the boxes of those products, but i have picked up a few of the dodger hits including chrome refractors of davey lopes (2004)

and duke snider (2005)

most recently, so it's not all bad news.

it's still 1978 somewhere

i've been paying some attention to my "1978 master set" lately (as a refresher, i featured the non-1978 flagship cards that i've included in my 1978 master set in this post). as a result, i've tracked down some more cards to add to the effort.

i had previously dismissed the reprints of nolan ryan's 1978 topps card that topps issued back in 1999 because they were reprints. however, i decided to pick up the "finest"

and "finest" refractor

versions because they offer the first glimpse of 1978 topps chrome-ified. 

similarly, i had ignored willie hernandez's 2001 topps archives reserve

and ron guidry's 2002 topps archives reserve

cards for the same reason, but relented because they, too, show chromed and refractored versions of their respective 1978 topps cards.

i then decided to pick up chrome refractor examples of at least one of the 1978 topps design cards from the 2003-2005 topps all-time fan favorites sets. from 2003 i picked up jim rice

and from 2004 it was eric gregg

joining my collection.

i was able to track down a second copy of dusty baker's 2005 topps atff refractor

to complete the three year run. these sets used different photos which was fun to see.  i also picked up a rick monday refractor

for the dodger collection, along with the gold refractor parallel

these are numbered to 25 so i probably won't be able to find one to add to the '78 master set.  also, 1978 topps looks strange with a gold border.

back to reprints, here's a 2014 topps chrome eddie murray all-time rookies insert

and i believe it is the first time that the topps chrome logo has shown up on a 1978 topps card.

in 2021, there were three new 1978 design cards to find thanks to the 70 years of topps insert sets across series 1, 2 and update. i decided to pick up at least one of the chrome versions of the cards and wound up with cal ripken's

this is the second one of these in my overall collection, as this card was also my favorite non-dodger card of the year back then.

with 2022 topps archives using the 1978 design, there were plenty of parallels to chase. i held off for quite some time, but decided to go out and pick up examples of the ones that i didn't already have (where were all but the rainbow foil). so, here's the green border

numbered to 125

the silver border

numbered to 99

the red border

numbered to 75

the blue foil

numbered to 25

the red hot foil

numbered to 50

the orange hot foil

numbered to 15

for some reason, trevor rogers and alex kiriloff were easily available in the parallels when i went looking. rogers is the player whose rainbow foil i pulled from the box i opened as well. i have a spencer torkelson design variation/color swap as well, and so i'm not too concerned about chasing down any of those. maybe someday i will find a 1/1 foil fractor though.

i also decided to add this 1988 topps card to my master '78 set

and then i went out and bought an autographed version of it from 2023 topps archives signature series

i put that card in my "meaningful and just because" collection. here's the back:

it gives a nice little recap of the 1978 regular season, which was the first one i followed wire to wire.

collecting baseball cards that year was a lot of fun, even though there was only topps. i amassed a bunch of doubles on my way to completing a set, and i suppose if other options had existed i would have bought those cards, too. so, i may eventually try to chase down the rest of the 2002 donruss originals what if? 1978 inserts - i already have pops

and i know that chasing these down will help me keep the feeling of being a new baseball fan alive.

my retired number collection - plenty of twenty

this is the 19th post in a series that shares the cards i have in my retired number mini-collection. you can find the links to the previous posts down at the bottom of this post. if you're eager to learn more right now, you can check out the full list of retired numbers along with what this collection will entail over at my want list site.

without further ado, here are the people for whom number 20 has been retired:

frank robinson (retired by the orioles in 1972) 2007 upper deck sp legendary cuts

the orioles retired number 20 for frank robinson on march 10, 1972 when he was still an active player. of course, he had been traded to the dodgers about three months prior to that date, bringing an end to his six-year tenure with the o's. it was a pretty good run, as he won the triple crown in 1966, his first year in baltimore. that same year, he was voted the most valuable player in the american league (becoming the first player to win the award in each league) as well as the world series mvp as he led the orioles to a world series title over the dodgers.

overall for the orioles, robinson hit .300 and hit 179 homers with 545 rbi in his six seasons. the 2007 upper deck sp legendary cuts card i chose shows him during his playing days, but robinson also wore number 20 when he managed the orioles in the late 1980's and early 1990's. he was the last person - player or coach/manager to wear the number for the team. he was elected to the hall of fame in 1982 on his first ballot, and is enshrined as an oriole.

pie traynor (retired by the pirates in 1972) 1976 topps

there aren't too many card options other than this 1976 topps card for traynor, who played for the pirates from 1920-1937 and served as their manager from 1934-1939. he was the first pirate to wear number 20, but richie hebner holds the distinction of being the last to don it having done so in the 1971 season prior to its retirement on april 18, 1972. he spent his entire career with the pirates.

traynor hit .320 over his career and was considered by most to be the greatest third baseman in the game's history (as indicated by his inclusion in the 1976 topps all-time all-stars subset) up until brooks robinson and another guy we will cover a bit later in this post came along. he was elected to the hall of fame in 1948 on his ninth ballot.

lou brock (retired by the cardinals in 1979) 1999 fleer sports illustrated greats of the game

brock's number 20 is front and center on his 1999 fleer sports illustrated greats of the game card which shows him sliding into third base - hopefully on a successful stolen base attempt. the cardinals, brock's second franchise, retired his number on september 9, 1979 just three weeks in advance of his retirement as a player and just shy of a month after he joined the 3,000 hit club.

brock's claim to fame was the stolen base, and he led the national league in that category 8 different times. he retired as baseball's all-time stolen base leader and held the all-time season stolen base record until rickey henderson passed him in both categories. he was obviously the last cardinal to wear number 20, and was elected to cooperstown in 1985 on his first ballot.

mike schmidt (retired by the phillies in 1990) 1984 topps

michael jack schmidt is the guy i alluded to earlier as up for consideration for the greatest third baseman of all-time. i'm biased a bit because he comes from my prime fandom years, but the stats are undeniable: 548 home runs, three national league mvp awards, 12 time all-star, nine consecutive gold gloves (10 overall), and a world series championship and mvp award. that is quite a career. i appreciate his 1984 topps card for showcasing the number as well as giving us a good look at the last zipper jerseys in the big leagues.

fittingly, the phillies retired his number on may 26, 1990 - just about a year after he announced his retirement during the 1989 season. he was the last phillie to wear number 20, and he was elected to the national baseball hall of fame in his first year of eligibility in 1995 with 96.5% of the vote, which at the time was the fourth highest percentage ever achieved, behind tom seaver, ty cobb, and hank aaron.

frank white (retired by the royals in 1995) 1985 topps

it's fitting that i chose white's 1985 topps card for this collection because that is the year that white and the royals won their first world series title, but truth be told it was the first card of his that featured the number somewhat prominently. white spent his entire 18 year big league career in kansas city, retiring after the 1990 season with 2,006 hits and eight gold gloves to his name.

white was the mvp of the 1980 alcs, helping the royals secure their first pennant, and he retired as perhaps the second greatest royal behind george brett. he is not in the national baseball hall of fame, but his value to the franchise was shown during the 1995 season when he was enshrined in the team's hall of fame. while the team did not issue his number to anyone after he retired following the 1990 season, they waited to formally honor its retirement until may 2, 1995 presumably to coincide with the team's hall of fame induction. 

don sutton (retired by the dodgers in 1998) 1977 topps

there's no missing don sutton's number on his 1977 topps card - i love the dodgers' red jersey front numbers and hope that the uniform snafu currently going around the big leagues doesn't impact this iconic look. anyway, sutton waited until august 14, 1998 to have his numbered retired by the dodgers - that's almost 10 years to the day after his final appearance on the mound in a big league game - as they were honoring their (almost always adhered to) rule of waiting for a player or manager to be elected to the hall of fame. sutton got in in 1998 on his fifth ballot which was crazy to me as a fan.

sutton racked up 233 wins and 2,696 strikeouts in his two stints as a dodger, both best in franchise history until clayton kershaw passed him in strikeouts during the 2022 season. kershaw is only 23 wins behind sutton at this point, but has no chance in passing sutton in some other catergories in which he leads all dodger pitchers, such as starts (533), innings pitched (3,816.1), and shutouts (52). 

sutton is the reason that frank robinson didn't wear number 20 during his lone season with the dodgers (he wore 36), and even though sutton amassed the majority of those stats with the dodgers from 1966 through 1980, the club didn't hesitate to reissue his number when he left for houston following the 1980 season. candy maldonado was the first to wear it after sutton departed, although sutton later reclaimed it from phil garner in 1988 when he returned. after the dodgers released sutton late in the 1988 season, they again reissued the number to several players until darren lewis (in 1997) became the last dodger player to wear it.

frank robinson (retired by the reds in 1998) 2002 topps american pie

robinson began his career with the reds by winning the 1956 national league rookie of the year award and continued to perform at a high level through the 1965 season - his last in cincinnati. he was the 1961 national league mvp as he led the reds to the pennant that year and their first world series since 1940. the 2002 topps american pie card i chose shows him in the early 1960's with his number clearly visible.

the reds wound up trading robinson to baltimore following the 1965 season with his 324 home runs totaling the most in franchise history. he has since been passed in that category by johnny bench and joey votto, but he is still the franchise's all-time leader in slugging percentage and ops. despite his success for the franchise, the reds reissued robinson's number in 1966. it was last worn by chris stynes in 1997 before being retired on may 22, 1998.

luis gonzalez (retired by the diamondbacks in 2010) 2001 pacific private stock

it makes sense to use a 2001 card like that pacific private stock issue for gonzalez here because he cemented his place in diamondbacks lore that year. all he did was hit 57 home runs during the regular season and lead the dbacks to the national league pennant. then, in the world series, he hit a walk-off series winning single off of mariano rivera in game 7 to give the franchise their first title.

his number 20 was the first number to be retired by the franchise for one of their own players, and gonzalez was given the honor on august 7, 2010. prior to that, the diamondbacks had a "hall of fame" policy similar to the dodgers', but they relaxed that stance to honor gonzalez. jeff suppan is the only other diamondback to have worn number 20 for the team, but gonzalez was the last.

monte irvin (retired by the giants in 2010) 2004 topps all-time fan favorites

irvin's 2004 topps all-time fan favorites card gives us just a tease of his number 20, but it's the best i could find. he was 30 by the time he was brought into the major leagues by the giants in 1949 as their first black player following the sport's integration in 1947, and in 1951 he had his best season. as the giants' primary left fielder that year, he led the league in rbi with 121 and finished third in the mvp voting. he hit .458 in the world series that year, although the giants lost to the yankees. irvin helped the club return in 1954, however, and this time he and his teammates brought home the championship.

while irvin's tenure with the giants was short (he played with them from 1950 through 1955) he was a star for the newark eagles before heading to new york, and he was inducted to the hall of fame in 1973 on the merits of his full career - both in the negro leagues and the national league. and, while the giants retired his number on june 26, 2010. many giant players (and frank robinson as the team's manager) wore number 20 following irvin's time with the club, but john bowker was the last to do so, and he did so as late as a month prior to its retirement.

jorge posada (retired by the yankees in 2015) 2009 topps update & highlights

posada switched from number 20 to 22 after mike stanley was reacquired by the yankees towards the end of the 1997 season, but in 1998 he switched back and never relinquished the number again. the yankees decided to retire it in posada's honor after he retired following the 2011 season, and they kept it out of rotation until the formal retirement ceremony was held on august 22, 2015.

a member of the yankees' "core four", posada was the team's primary catcher on all four of the club's recent world series winning teams and he ranks eighth all-time among yankees in terms of games played. posada is not in the hall of fame, although if yadier molina makes it someday i would expect his candidacy to be revisited by an eras committee.

frank robinson (retired by the guardians in 2017) 2008 topps sterling

robinson didn't spend a lot of time in cleveland, but he finished his playing career there and made a mark on baseball history at the same time. he joined the club near the end of the 1974 season, and when 1975 came around, his role had been expanded to include the managerial duties - making him the first black manager in the major leagues. he made his last appearance as a player on september 16, 1976 and singled in a run in his final at bat. robinson remained the manager of the indians until a few weeks into the 1977 season when he was replaced by jeff torborg.

the indians retired his number on may 27, 2017 making rajai davis the last cleveland player to wear number 20. i was happy to find the 2008 topps sterling card shown above from his playing days in cleveland - not too many of those cards out there.

i am tracking a few things as we go, even though the information is already available elsewhere.

retired numbers by team (through the 18 posts so far):

yankees - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 20

giants - 3, 4, 11, 20

pirates - 1, 4, 8, 9, 11, 20

guardians - 3, 5, 14, 18, 19, 20, 455

red sox - 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14

phillies - 1, 14, 15, 20

cardinals - 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 20, 85

reds - 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 20

braves - 3, 6, 10

astros - 5, 7

mets - 14, 16, 17, 18

orioles - 4, 5, 8, 20

dodgers - 1, 2, 4, 14, 19, 20

twins - 3, 6, 7, 10, 14

white sox - 2, 3, 4, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 72

brewers - 1, 4, 19

tigers - 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 16

cubs - 10, 14

royals - 5, 10, 20

padres - 6, 19

athletics - 9

angels - 11

expos - 8, 10

rangers - 7, 10

major league baseball

rays - 12, 66

diamondbacks - 20

blue jays

rockies - 17

mariners - 11

nationals - 11

marlins

retired number frequency:

1 - retired by 9 teams

2 - retired by 5 teams

3 - retired by 7 teams

4 - retired by 8 teams

5 - retired by 7 teams

6 - retired by 7 teams

7 - retired by 4 teams

8 - retired by 6 teams (retired by yankees for two players)

9 - retired by 6 teams

10 - retired by 9 teams (retired by expos for two players)

11 - retired by 8 teams

12 - retired by 1 team

13 - retired by 1 team

14 - retired by 10 teams (retired by mets and dodgers for same person)

15 - retired by 2 teams

16 - retired by 4 teams (includes mets who will formally retire the number in 2024)

17 - retired by 3 teams

18 - retired by 3 teams (includes mets who will formally retire the number in 2024) 

19 - retired by 5 teams

20 - retired by 11 teams (retired by orioles, reds, and guardians for same person)

66 - retired by 1 team

72 - retired by 1 team

85 - retired by 1 team

455 - retired by 1 team

unnumbered players - 12 players recognized by 4 teams

running total of unique hall of famers (including those without numbers): 97

running total of non-hall of famers: 34