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Wayne Paulsen's avatar

Yes please, league-wide retirement of #6. 😍

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Jason Sabotin's avatar

As a kid, I was a die hard baseball player, and my first little league team was the Dodgers, so by default they were my favorite major league team. At that same time (1979), my dad bought me my first baseball cards, and the first Dodgers card I got was shortstop Bill Russell. By default, he became my favorite player (you know how 7 year-old brains work.) Thus, when I would tell anyone who would listen that the Dodgers were my favorite team and Bill Russell was my favorite player, imagine my confusion and stubbornness when all adults would tell me gently that Bill Russell was a basketball player, and not only that, but at that time considered maybe THE best one. I would steadfastly argue that, no, Bill Russell was the shortstop for the Dodgers. It was years before I realized there were two and that people could have the same name (was that even allowed? my 2nd grade brain would wonder…) Ah to be young.

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