Retired numbers have become a joke. Sorry, but Dave Concepcion and Hent Hrbek don't rate a retired number. If a team doesn't retire a number when the player retires, how much could that player have really meant to them? The Mets retired the numbers of Casey Stengel & Gil Hodges. c'mon... Gene Autry (???) had his 'number' (26) retired. At the very least, you should have to have PLAYED for the team that retires your number.
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