In Sports
- The jersey number 50 has been retired by a number of North American sports teams in honor of past playing greats or other figures.
- In Major League Baseball:
- The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, for coach Jimmie Reese, who served with the team when it was known as the California Angels.
- In the NBA:
- The San Antonio Spurs, for Hall of Famer David Robinson.
- In the NFL:
- The New York Giants, for Hall of Famer Ken Strong.
- No NHL team has retired the number, which is not frequently issued.
- In Major League Baseball:
- The jersey number 50 has also been retired by the men's basketball program of the University of North Carolina for Tyler Hansbrough.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)