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Jim Brown played nine seasons with the Cleveland Browns, from 1957 to 1965.
Jim Brown (#32) of the Cleveland Browns
Ricky Watters for the San Francisco 49ers in the '90s
The following numbers are retired by the Philadelphia Phillies: 1 Richie Ashburn 14 Jim Bunning 20 Mike Schmidt 32 Steve Carlton 36 Robin Roberts 42 Jackie Robinson (retired through all of baseball) The uniforms of Grover Cleveland Alexander and Chuck Klein are also retired but they did not wear numbers on the back of the jerseys during that era.
In addition to the current teams - the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati Bengals - the Baltimore Ravens, St. Louis Rams and Detroit Lions all were founded in Ohio. The Ravens were the original Browns, moving to Baltimore in 1996. The Rams began as the Cleveland Rams before moving to Los Angeles in 1946, then to St. Louis in 1995. The Lions were founded as the Portsmouth Spartans before moving to Detroit in 1934. About a dozen now-defunct franchises called Ohio home in the 1920s and 1930s. These included the famous Canton Bulldogs of Jim Thorpe; the Columbus Panhandles, which featured the six Nesser brothers; the Dayton Triangles; and the Oorang Indians, a team of Native Americans based in tiny LaRue, OH.