Retired Numbers

In today's episode we focus on individuals associated with the Giants' New York era, which lasted from 1885-1957. Amongst the New York Giants greats were Bill Terry, Monte Irvin, Carl Hubbel, Mel Ott, Christy Mathewson and John McGraw.

The Giants rank second in all time winning percentage, so it's no surprise they have a long list of retired numbers. Zach and Leo begin by focusing on some legends from the San Francisco era: Jeff Kent, Will Clark, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda, Gaylord Perry, and Willie McCovey.

Last time we discusses the great braves of the 1990s-2000s. But the team had its share of icons before that: Dale Murphy, Phil Niekro, Warren Spahn, Eddie Matthews, and of course, Hank Aaron.

Over half of the Braves retired numbers are from a single era: Jones, Jones, Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz, and the late Bobby Cox. Zach and Leo talk about how the combination of these players is a rarity they can only appreciate in hindsight.

Red Sox fan and longtime listener David Rosenbaum joins us to begrudgingly discuss Wade Boggs, and laud over Carl Yastrzemski (along with Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, and Ted Williams).

The Red Sox are one of baseball's most iconic teams, yet Joe Cronin, Bobby Doerr, and Johnny Pesky remain lesser known figures in baseball history.

Frank Robinson is one of the greatest baseball players ever, but he takes a back seat in Reds lore to the trio of Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench, and Pete Rose. We discuss these guys along with the "other" Barry from the 90s.

Baseball's oldest team is perhaps best known for its stars from the 1970s, including Tony Perez, Dave Concepcion, and manager Sparky Anderson. They are amongst the 10 retired Reds numbers, but so are Fred Hutchinson and Ted Kluszewski.

Mark Buerhle was too consistently good to be great (does that even make sense?). Zach and Leo also discuss White Sox legends Minnie Miñoso, Ted Lyons, Luke Appling, and Frank Thomas.

Zach and Leo discuss the recent Hall of Fame vote, setting up the discussion around players like Harold Baines, and Nellie Fox (alongside Paul Konerko, Billy Pierce, Carlton Fisk, and Luis Aparicio).

The Tigers' retired number wall includes seven baseball greats who didn't have regular numbers. Zach and Leo discuss a prolific grass-chewer, the all-time triples king, and, finally, baseball's most mythologized player, Ty Cobb.

Zach and Leo move on to four "classic" Tigers: Gehringer, Greenberg, Newhouser, and Kaline.

Zach and Leo discuss the comparatively recent figures amongst the Detroit Tigers's retired numbers: Willie Horton, Jim Leyland, Sparky Anderson, Jack Morris, and double-play duo Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker.

Zach and Leo discuss three hall of fame position players, and the challenge of playing for one of baseball's, allegedly, most difficult fanbases.

Zach and Leo discus four Hall of Fame pitchers: Roy Halladay, Jim Bunning, Robin Roberts and Steve Carlton.

Not every number retirement involves a retired number. Zach and Leo discuss the oldest stars of one of baseball's oldest teams, most of whom never wore a uniform number at all.

Join us as we round out our Mets discussion by looking at the careers of Mike Piazza, Keith Hernandez (yes, first base defence is. thing!) , David Wright, and Tom Seaver .

Today we meet the Mets, specifically Yankees (and Mets?) legend Casey Stengel, Giants (and Mets?) legend Willie Mays, Dodgers (and Mets?) legend Gil Hodges, Jerry Koosman, Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden.

In this episode we discuss four hall of famers. They range from Paul Waner, who even Pirates management hadn't heard of until very recently, to Roberto Clemente, the face of humanitarianism in sport.

Who is Billy Meyer? His may be baseball's most mysterious retired number. Join Zach and Leo as they also banter about Danny Murtaugh, Pie Traynor, Ralph Kiner, and Bill Mazeroski.

Nolan Ryan, Bill Wagner, and the Killer Bs give us more than enough to talk about. This episode is long but is rich with fun baseball trivia and banter.

Neither Roy Oswalt nor Lance Berkman have their numbers retired, but the Astros have no shortage of players to whom they've given the honor. Zach and Leo discuss six players all of whom they, more or less, just learned existed (Jim Umbricht, Don Wilson, Mike Scott, Larry Dierker, Jimmy Wynn, and Jose Cruz).

Zach and Leo discuss four Cleveland greats, including recent-ish star Jim Thome, and three players (Doby, Boudreau, and Feller) whose greatness aligned to bring about Cleveland's most recent world series title (1948).

If you aren't a Guardians fan you probably haven't heard of Earl Averill, Mel Harder, or Bob Lemon. You also may wonder why Cleveland has retired the number of Orioles and Reds legend Frank Robinson.

Who is the most iconic Minnesota Twin? It's a four-horse race between Joe Mauer, Kirby Puckett, Rod Carew, and Harmon Killibrew. Zach and Leo break down the numbers and lore behind these four Hall of Famers.