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It's a numbers game

By Paul Lukas
Special to Page 2

Thursday, April 26, 2007

The operative number in sports this month has been 42, as dozens of MLB players have paid tribute to Jackie Robinson by donning the forty-deuce. And that got Uni Watch thinking. Because let's face it, wearing Jackie Robinson's number, even if only for a day, is a pretty obvious gesture. But it's a little more subtle to wear, say, 37 because you were the 37th pick in the NBA draft (as Nick Van Exel once did), or to wear 49 because your last name matches the state capital of Alaska, the 49th sta ...

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