The Movement to Retire Roberto Clemente’s Number From the MLB Is Flourishing

*Great story! There’s a link that’ll take you to a petition that’ll be sent to MLB commissioner Bud Selig to have Clemente’s number 21 retired from professional baseball. What an honor.  #Retire21 VL


remezcla-logoBy Juan José Ferro H., Remezcla

t was 19 years ago that MLB Commissioner Bud Selig decided to retire no. 42 from all of the teams and players in Major League Baseball. This was Jackie Robinson’s number, and it’s now a symbol of Robinson’s legacy in the fight for breaking racial barriers in professional sports. Next year, the 20th anniversary of this memorable moment in US baseball history, would be an apt opportunity to retire Roberto Clemente’s claim to fame: no. 21.

he number of voices calling for MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to retire Clemente’s number is rapidly growing. The “Retire 21″ movement grew out of Pittsburgh, but is gaining ground across the country and in mainstream media.Supporters are signing petitions. Buster Olney, a notable baseball reporter,recently wrote an article asking for just that, arguing “the choice of commissioner Bud Selig to retire no. 42 in honor of Robinson may have been the best decision he made in his time in office…Rob Manfred has a similar opportunity with Clemente, in what would be an important gesture for the whole sport.”

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