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When a professional athelete uses a uniform with a number used by someone previously, there is a belief that s/he must be proven worthy of doing so; by measuring up to the performance of the previous user of that number.

The retiring of any number by any team is a way of stating that nobody else would ever be equal to the person's career.

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