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The first baseball team to use numbers on uniforms was the 1916 Cleveland Indians when they wore small numbers on the sleeves of their uniforms, as a way of identifying the players. This practice was short lived.
in 1929 the New York Yankees decided to wear numbers to the backs of their jerseys. The numbers corresponded to each player's general position in the lineup.for example Babe Ruth wore No. 3, since he usually batted third, and Lou Gehrig wore No. 4 as he batted fourth.
There is a long list of players that have worn the number 40 for the New York Yankees. Chien-Ming Wang is the latest Yankee to wear the number. Here is a complete list of Yankee players that wore uniform number 40.
Herb Karpel (1946)
Roy Weatherly (1946)
Charlie Silvera (part of 1948)
Cuddles Marshall (1948)
Jackie Jensen (1950, part of 1951)
Bob Wiesler (1951)
Bobby Hogue (1951-1952)
Johnny Schmitz (1952)
Ewell Blackwell (1952-1953)
Tom Carroll (1955-1956)
John Gabler (1959)
Gabe Gabler (1960)
Jack Cullen (1962)
Lou Clinton (1966-1967)
Bill Monbouquette (1967-1968)
Lindy McDaniel (1968-1973)
Rick Sawyer (1974)
Tippy Martinez (1974-1976)
Fran Healy (1976-1978)
Ron Davis (1978)
Larry McCall (1978)
Bob Kammeyer (1978)
Charlie Lau (1979-1981, Coach)
Mickey Vernon (1982, Coach)
Don Zimmer (1983, Coach; 1986, Coach)
Gene Michael (1984-1986, Coach)
Stan Williams (1987, Coach)
Clete Boyer (1988, Coach)
Clyde King (1988, Coach)
Steve Shields (1988)
Andy Hawkins (1989-1991)
Scott Kamieniecki (1991)
Tony Cloninger (1992-1998, Coach; 1999-2001, Coach)
Darren Holmes (1998)
Dan Miceli (2003)
Gabe White (2003-2004)
C.J. Nitkowski (2004)
Chien-Ming Wang (2005-2009)
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