Saturday, August 18, 2012

Retired Numbers/Names

You know how in baseball they retire the numbers of famous players after they retire? On the Yankees, the numbers of Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and others are all retired, i.e. nobody else on that team will ever get to wear that number.* I think in India they should retire the name Gandhi. It's just weird to see that name on some minor actress. In fact, it always bugged me that Indira Gandhi had it because she was so un-Gandhiesque.

*Interesting sidelight: Mariano Rivera has the number 42. That number has been permanently retired throughout major league baseball because it belonged to Jackie Robinson. Mariano was grandfathered in, i.e. he had the number before they made the rule. So when he retires, nobody will ever wear that number. The odd thing is that he should certainly have his number retired but they can't really do that because the number is already retired. I wonder what they'll do.

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