{"id":1321,"date":"2010-01-03T19:53:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2013-12-08T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T19:55:08","slug":"bobby-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Bobby in Disguise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We recently got an inquiry from a reader who asked about the circumstances around Met coaches\u00a0Bobby Valentine<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Bill Robinson<\/a>\u00a0switching uniform numbers before the 1985 season.<\/p>\n

You might recall that in 1984, Robinson, then in his first season as the Mets hitting and first-base coach, was wearing\u00a0No. 26<\/a>\u00a0while Valentine was issued\u00a0No. 22<\/a>\u00a0until the Mets traded for\u00a0Ray Knight<\/a>\u00a0late in the season. Valentine at that point switched to\u00a028<\/a>\u00a0to allow Knight to wear his customary 22.<\/p>\n

By the beginning of 1985, Valentine gave up 28 for\u00a0No. 2<\/a>and Robinson moved into 28, a jersey he’d wear for the next five years. No. 26 wasn’t issued agin until\u00a0Terry Leach<\/a>\u00a0arrived in July.<\/p>\n

A little bit of research explains Robinson’s preference for 28: He’d worn that number as a player for the best years of his career with the Pirates. It was available with the Mets in ’84 but not until\u00a0Scott Holman<\/a>\u00a0was released at the end of spring training. Holman’s subsequent re-signing as a minor leaguer may have kept the number in near-term mothballs.<\/p>\n

Anyone with memories of this situation- – or even why Valentine seemed to prefer No. 2 — is welcome to chime in. Thanks as always for the questions!<\/p>\n

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We recently got an inquiry from a reader who asked about the circumstances around Met coaches\u00a0Bobby Valentine\u00a0and\u00a0Bill Robinson\u00a0switching uniform numbers before the 1985 season. You might recall that in 1984, Robinson, then in his first season as the Mets hitting and first-base coach, was wearing\u00a0No. 26\u00a0while Valentine was issued\u00a0No. 22\u00a0until the Mets traded for\u00a0Ray Knight\u00a0late … Continue reading “Bobby in Disguise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[462,459,390,461,460],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-robinson","tag-bobby-valentine","tag-ray-knight","tag-scott-holman","tag-terry-leach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}