Well with the fall season ending up here in the Northeast, I am already missing the game. We played a ton of ball on several different teams, but one thing that was constant was my son's number. It got me wondering if other kids always pick the same number and if so why? so I thought it would make for an easy going topic in the off season.

For my son his number of choice is # 6. He has worn that number since he was 8 yrs old. It was was the number he was assigned when he made his first All-star team, he was one of 4 8's that were picked to play up on the 9yr old All Star team that year. I think he took pride in playing up and being chosen and has stuck with that number ever since. He wears it in basketball as well. Funny thing is he is big for his age so the #6 has come close to not fitting him a few times..lol. I guess he sees it now as his "lucky" number, at least for sports.

So does your child have a special uniform number and if so why?

I knew I liked you TG....

my 13u son wears 27 (Rolen)
my 11u son wears 5 (Pujols)
my 9u son used to wear 51 (Ichiro) but starting this year he's wearing 15 (Edmonds)

I'm assuming "favorite players" is the primary source for the # choices kids make.

Jon

All be it I'm not longer a Pre-HS kid. I received my number when I was 10.

I was given number 16 by the Coach and it's stuck with me since, all the way from that team to College.

When I was a kid I never knew who wore 16 as a number in the MLB.

I've always like the number and when I couldn't get it for the summer league I played in my Freshman year, I was slightly dissapointed!

quote:

Originally posted by TG:
He can't wear 17 in school basketball games. It violates the rules.

Forgive me for not knowing why 17 violates the rules of basketball?

My son is 14 and a freshmen in high school. He has alway had number 3. He can't remember why, it's been too long.

#2 son wears 17 just because

#1 son wears 44 but suprisingly he really isn't too into his number as he gets older. He's had to wear other numbers and he's good with that.

I was pretty superstitious about my number. Glad they're not.

Everysport and everytime its available my Son wears 34. He is a huge Nolan Ryan fan.

quote:

Hey GOLF. Our boys have a new designation. They 11's now.

I know, time is flying by. I wish I could slow it down a little...

31. It was his number on his first JV team (he goes to a K-12 school and played JV as a pre-high schooler).

Before that: 1 (Furcal), 14 (Rose) and 44 (Aaron).

Son uses 46 Andy Pettitte (I think thats enough Ts)

Big fan from early Yankee years but I wasnt sure what he'd do after the Astro deal. Gotta hand it to him stayed with the 46 and with Andy.

21 or 12 whichever is available.
My son is a big Sammy Sosa fan.

Yea, it bothers me too.

When my son was around 6, my husband tried to get him to pick #3. Told him it was his grandfather's number (my husband's dad) when he played baseball years & years ago. My son was adament that he was going to be #23. They would argue about this every season for the next several years. We went to a family reunion a couple of years ago (son was about to start high school by this time and still wearing 23) and my husband's aunt brought old family photos. Included were his father's baseball pictures-you guessed it-he was #23 not #3. Let me tell you-it freaked me and my husband both out!! His dad had died when our son was 2 so he never really knew him.

When he got to high school, he made Varsity as a freshman. When coach gave him his jersey-he was a bit nervous and didn't want to ask him if he could switch numbers so he didn't get 23 for the first time. So all through high school he was a different number. My husband and I joked that his grandpa had decided that my son had proven himself on his own and was ready for his own number.

Now that he's in college, he's yet another number as #23 was already taken as well as his high school number!

My son wears 5 because that was my number in college

one guess

don't know why he wears it. He just picked it.

I think I told this story before somewhere in the archives of HSBBweb...but since the topic has come up again...

I can't remember exactly how old my son was but it was the first time he was playing on a team when jerseys were being special ordered and not just handed out by the league so he was probably about 9. The coach was asking the boys what numbers they wanted and "3" for the Babe, "7" for Mantle, and being in Texas, "34" for Nolan were grabbed right away as the boys named off their favorite players.

When it was my son's turn, he asked for "56."
"Whose number is that?" the coached asked.
"It's my number," he replied.

He hasn't been able to wear that number for awhile but he used to write it in his hat.
People that have known him awhile still refer to him as 5-6.

Last spring he wore 15. We made a joke out of it ala Gerald Laird. 15 = 1 man, 5 tools. He heard Gerald Laird say this with a laugh when introducing his line up before a game on TV one night and it stuck. Like Mr. Laird he knows not to take this too seriously and his friend know him well enough to know he's not boasting. He is a catcher and Laird is one of his favorites.

This fall he ended up with 10. His little sister is having a lot of fun with that one.

My son (hs junior) wore #13 from t-ball and 3rd grade in football (don't know why, he just picked the number). He still wears #13 in football, but there is not a #13 jersey in hs baseball (somebody is superstitious, but #13 had been very good to him); he now wears #10 in baseball.

Both my sons wear #11, it was my fathers # in football.And while neither of my boys ever met my dad*he passed when my oldest was 6mos*,they want that # whatever they're playing.

My son used to wear 14 because it was his Grandfather's number.Now he wears 12 because it was his batting/catching coach's number when he was with the Mets orgaization

For years my lefty pitcher son has been 40. He is proud that Rick Sutcliffe is a distant cousin. He did not have a choice on his current team but 24 is another lefty's number, Rick Ankiel.