And Ye Shall Know Them by the Numbers on Their Backs

USA Today writer Steve Gardner chooses the best player ever to wear uniform numbers 1-50. One could quibble with his choices (mine starts with the lack of a 56 to award Jim Bouton), but it’s a fun little list.

So long as Gardner filled out spots with managers, he should have at least mentioned the only man I ever think of wearing #1: Billy Martin, five-time ex-Yankee manager, who’s probably running a great ballclub down in Hell right now.