Found September 16, 2009 on Best Athletes By The Numbers:
If your baseball jersey number is retired by the New York Yankees, it should be listed on this site. But that's not the case for all uniform numbers. It is for "Gator" Ron Guidry though.

Check out some of Guidry's MLB pitching stats here, and see why he's also the best professional athlete to ever wear the jersey number 49.


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