{"id":683,"date":"2007-04-05T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=683"},"modified":"2013-11-30T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T16:55:13","slug":"willie-to-wear-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Willie to Wear 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manager\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/randolph-willie\"><strong>Willie Randolph<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0said he would wear\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/42\"><strong>No. 42<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>on April 15 when baseball honors Jackie Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time I can be involved with the name Jackie Robinson, it\u2019s an honor for me,\u201d Randolph said Wednesday,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.mets.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20070404&amp;content_id=1878754&amp;vkey=news_nym&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;c_id=nym\">according to MLB.com<\/a>. \u201cI want to be the one. He was such a special man who did so much for so many people. I\u2019m looking forward to the ceremony and to seeing Rachel [Robinson, Jackie\u2019s wife].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willie would be the 10th man to wear 42 for the Mets, Others include\u00a0<strong>Larry Elliot (1964); Ron Taylor (1967-71); Chuck Taylor (1972); Hank Webb (1972); Ron Hodges (1973-1984); Tom Hall (1975); Roger McDowell (1985-89); Butch Huskey (1995-98) and Mo Vaughn (2002-03).<\/strong>\u00a0Huskey and Vaughn were grandfathered into baseball\u2019s leaguewide retirement of the jersey in 1997; and both wore the number in Robinson\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manager\u00a0Willie Randolph\u00a0said he would wear\u00a0No. 42\u00a0on April 15 when baseball honors Jackie Robinson. \u201cAny time I can be involved with the name Jackie Robinson, it\u2019s an honor for me,\u201d Randolph said Wednesday,\u00a0according to MLB.com. \u201cI want to be the one. He was such a special man who did so much for so many people. I\u2019m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Willie to Wear 42&#8221;<\/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":[167],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-willie-randolph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}