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Originally Posted by canjond
Maybe this is something I should know, but why is there no number 3 on the back of the Babe?
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Hi Jon,
Good question. Uniform numbers had not yet begun to be used in baseball. It wasn't until 1929 that the Yankees added numbers to theirs. I'm relying on memory here, but the Cleveland Indians I believe were the first to use uniform numbers. The Yanks were late adopters......
