OT: What's Your Number

[dsturdy5]

5 in basketball starting in high school. Carried it to AAU.

The rest of the time I always had a number with a 5 in it (middle school, intramural, men's league, etc)

I also ran track and xc, no numbers there.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I really can't remember my basketball Numbers.
Football 73 ,baseball 37 . Simeone else always beat me to number 7.

 

[huskiesNhoos]

13

Never really played basketball after middle school, but I wore 13 in soccer all the way through college. It's a family number, my dad wore it for all sports growing up, and in college for track/cross country

 

[Doginaus]

Slowly wading in again on another vanilla topic; back in another dispensation when I played sport; in football, I first wore #60 (for Chuck Bednarik and Tommy Nobis) and then switched to #88 for my alltime football hero, Alan Page. Didn't have a number for tennis except for my ranking at the time,#2.

 

[Mr. French]

I love this topic, oddly enough. Numbers are always important to me in sports for some reason.

HS Hoops: Frosh 34 for Ray Allen. Soph I believe I had 23, no explanation. Varsity I actually wanted 42 because of El-Amin (Jr yr in HS was 2000), I couldn't convince the guy who had it, and I got 33. That ended up being my favorite number to this day, so I sort of lucked out. I played one year in college, and in a twist of irony I couldn't convince 33 to give it up, so I had 42.

I played baseball my whole life, and I don't remember any numbers before junior in HS, when I didn't really have a number preference, and #7 was left. I took it, not fully realizing 7's greatness. I wore it two years on Varsity then 2 years in college, and every softball or baseball league I've been in since.

I also played a year of Frosh FB, #3 as a RB/QB/LB, but that didn't last long. I am too injury prone to play football. My body fell apart without a life of football.

 

[Northbound]

# 7 FB as a mlb that was only because the #1 jersey didn't exist and 7 was the lowest available
#1 Lacrosse this one stayed with me through college

 

[joober jones]

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Until that post the realization of the 2 numbers together never bong hit me.

 

[J-dog]

Until that post the realization of the 2 numbers together never bong hit me.

Sadly, I had to google it to understand the 4/20 connection… Just another sign that I'm an old man with no hip-ness...

 

[temery]

# 1 for golf. Oh, wait ... That's were our team placed in the BYC golf tournament.

 

[ctchamps]

I am a name and not a number. That's because I can't remember my HS soccer number. Probably was 6.

 

[Tenspro2002]

#32

It's a nice even number (power of 2), and it was Rip's number.

 

[Durks07]

ME: What number am I this year coach?

COACH: Ummm...we ran out of uniforms.

ME: So, what do I do then?

COACH: Get a job?

 

[Bezzz]

Game worn jersey in which the wearer pitched a no-hitter against Cpl. Coyle (Waterbury) American Legion summer of 1972. Still fits.

 

[HuskyV]

37 for football - Wanted 32 or 7 when we had a chance to order jerseys sophomore year, but upperclassmen had already claimed them. Decided to go with 37 just because I liked the way it looked. Has been my number ever since 37. Only number retired by both NY baseball teams - for a guy who didn't play for either of those teams, but played for the two NY teams that migrated to the west cost.

22 in hoop - Wore 7 or 12 until high school. Got 22 sophomore year & stuck with it. We used school issued jerseys without names. Not much choice.

 

[AtlHusky]

Sadly, I had to google it to understand the 4/20 connection… Just another sign that I'm an old man with no hip-ness...

Hopefully you won't have to google the numbers I most like to have on me when performance matters...

 

[J-dog]

Hopefully you won't have to google the numbers I most like to have on me when performance matters...

Got that one right away… Good tune.

 

[Horatio]

#75 in middle school and highs school
In college # 98 ( after Public Enemy's - " Your gonna get yours / My 98 Oldsmobile ".

 

[Horatio]

#75 in middle school and highschool
In college # 98 ( after Public Enemy's - " Your gonna get yours / My 98 Oldsmobile ".

 

[Edward Sargent]

For anyone who played organized basketball at any point in their lives, what jersey number did you have? I was #4 in junior high school and #20 in high school. I wasn't quite talented enough to play at the college level.

I was a swimmer but we once came to a practice jokingly with numbers taped to our backs. I was #7 for the Mick!

 

[Bill Sussman]

13, Because everything is earned through hard work not through lucky numbers.

 

[IMind]

I was 31 in high school.. mainly because it was the only jersey that fit me. Not that I was particularly huge... mainly because I think the uniforms, much like the seats at Fenway, were manufactured sometime in the 1920s when people were smaller...

Also: 00 and 13 when I got to choose.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

#12 in CYO and High school
#4 in College

 

[31GuardTrap]

Baseball-mostly #8 (for Gary Carter)
Hockey-#16
Football-I kid not here.....
73, 42, 74, 13, 53
Minor League Football-#52