Originally Posted by AC91
I';ve said it before and I'll say it again....as a lifelong Yankee fan...retiring numbers is silly. even if there are players who deserve it, at some point it becomes unteneble and completely contrived. I get it that babe ruth was great, but whether or not someone 100 years later wears number 3 has zero effect on how we remember him and his accomplishments. and no organization has the discipline anymore to keep it a rare and special thing. I love the likes of Ron Guidry and Bernie Williams as much as the anyone, but c'mon. it's just silly and shallow marketing.
There are concourses and sections of the arena everywhere to honor the great players and times for UD. do something nice there for folks to see.
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That's a good argument for not retiring numbers at all. The Yankees have retired 21 numbers (for 22 players, since one number was retired for 2 players). Looking through the list, I'd say at most 9 of them are deserving. I'd vote 'yes' for retiring Obi's number and then at the same time said that I'd also retire Don May's number... and nobody else's.
But you're right - if the door is opened, there would probably be calls for a dozen other players, too, and that would be silly.
It's not impossible to maintain that discipline, though.
La Salle University baseball has retired just 2 numbers in its history.
