He always wore the number 10 jersey, and was a free kick specialist.

Aaron would hit 44 home runs in four different seasons, and he hit his record-breaking 715th career home run off Dodgers pitcher Al Downing, who coincidentally also wore number 44.

Ultimately, more than 200 players wore number 42, including the entire rosters of the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

The tribute was continued in 2008, when, during games on April 15, all members of the Mets, Cardinals, Washington Nationals, and Tampa Bay Rays wore Robinson's number 42.

In 2009, all uniformed personnel ( players, managers, coaches, and umpires ) wore number 42 on April 15.

In November 2010, before the 2011 Libyan civil war, the total number of Libyan personnel was estimated at 76, 000 though the 2011 Libyan civil war wore the military's numbers away.

Since his longtime uniform number # 21 was in use by teammate Paul O ' Neill, Clemens initially wore # 12, before switching mid-season to # 22.

In Houston, Clemens wore # 22, his number with the Yankees, partly because Pettitte had chosen # 21, in Clemens ' honor.

At one point, he suggested to pitcher Andy Messersmith who wore number 17, that he change his surname to " Channel " to promote the television station.

Also in 2009, the team honored former Quarterback Steve McNair, by placing a small navy blue disc on the back of their helmets, inside of the navy blue disk, a white number 9 ( 9 was the number McNair wore during his time with the Oilers / Titans ).

It was with the Greyhounds that Wayne first wore the number 99 on his jersey.

At that tournament he wore the number 1 shirt, as Argentina's policy at the time was to number their players alphabetically by surname, with an exception made so Diego Maradona could wear his preferred number 10.

On his first day in spring training the following February, however, Jackson wore number 20 ( the number of Frank Robinson, who had also just retired ) before switching to 44.

In 1987, he signed a one-year contract to return to the A's, wearing the number 44 with which he was now most associated rather than the number 9 he previously wore in Oakland.

In 2000, Griffey also changed his number from 24 to 30, the number his father wore while playing in both Cincinnati and Seattle.

He wore number 24, which — although not officially retired — had not been regularly worn by a Mets player since Willie Mays ' retirement in 1973.

The Thrashers dedicated their entire 2003 – 04 season to Snyder's memory, and Thrashers players wore black patches with Snyder's number, 37, on their jerseys for the season.

When Jordan returned to the Bulls, he initially wore No. 45 ( which was his number while playing for the Birmingham Barons, a minor-league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox ).

He chose the No. 45 because his older brother Larry wore that number in high school.

Instead, Akiyama wore the number 81.

Iqbal arrived in England with nothing but the shirt he wore on his back, a faded five pound note in his pocket, and a Bedford van's exhaust chamber full of state of the art hydroponic equipment and marijuana seeds with the potential street value, when cultivated, of £ 80, 000 ( equal to £ 81, 000 today ).

She smoked, wore trousers, and drove cars, unusual for women at the time.

Hippies often chose brightly-colored clothing and wore unusual styles, such as bell-bottom pants, vests, tie-dyed garments, dashikis, peasant blouses, and long, full skirts ; non-Western inspired clothing with Native American, Asian, Indian, African and Latin American motifs were also popular.

It was a little unusual to call the uniform a " retro " since the Magic wore them as recently as 1997 – 1998, however they have already had four jersey designs in only 20 seasons of play.

The Huastecs were unusual as one of the few cultures that attained civilization and built cities, yet usually wore no clothing.

The militants used Arabic names among themselves, and the female terrorists wore Arab-style burqa clothes which are highly unusual in the North Caucasus region.

Raskolnikov from the novel Crime and Punishment wore a top hat from Zimmerman's shop before killing the pawn broker, but thought better of wearing it to the murder, since it was already unusual and thus too conspicuous in 1860s Russia.

Fisk flip-flopped his old number and thus wore the unusual baseball number of 72 on his jersey.

He first hinted that he wore the same unusual shoes as somebody else, but Sterling still did not recognize him until Griffin told him.

She then proceeded to the top ten after competing in the evening gown competition, where she wore an unusual vintage copper gown that was designed by Bora and cost A $ 25, 000.

It was not unusual for a rider to use one horse till it was wore out and then swap his gear to another horse — letting the first horse free to wander.

In 1989, Fondmetal turned out to be Osella's main sponsor, when two bright Osella Fa1Ms in unusual white livery wore large Fondmetal letters on the hood.

He sported a shaved head, which was unusual at that time ; always wore black ; and instead of the double-bass drum kit that was popular at the time, he used a single large parade bass drum turned sideways, with pedals on each side.

In the 2005 / 06 season, the club wore an unusual green shirt with a white sash as their third kit to play against teams similar in colours ( such as Miramar Misiones and Wanderers ).

She wore no hat, stockings or gloves and wore a man's watch, which was unusual at the time.

He wore no gun -- a strange ommission for a peace officer in this country.

He proudly wore the blue livery of her house, for the girl was Madame Delphine Lalaurie, wife of the prominent surgeon, Dr. Louis Lalaurie, who bore one of the South's oldest and most cherished names.

Mrs. Coolidge gave Mama this dress for me, and I wore it many times.

For years he wore hand-me-down suits and homemade paper collars, was even driven to scrounging for cigarette butts in Vienna's gutters.

They were carpeted, but made for pumps and congress gaiters, not the great clodhoppers he wore.

Each wore the monkish scourge at his waist but this, it seems, was not employed for self-flagellation.

She had dug a hole for each bulb, each tree wore a tag with her writing on it ; ;

Pink, Vivian once had told him, was for baby girls, and grown-up girls who wore pink were subconsciously clinging to their infancy.

When Selkirk's clothes wore out, he made new garments from goatskin using a nail for sewing.

The Falcons wore an all-black combination for home games against their archrivals, the New Orleans Saints, winning the first two contests ( 24 – 21 in and 36 – 17 in ), but losing 31 – 13 in.

The Falcons wore the all black combination against the New Orleans Saints for 4 straight seasons starting in 2004, With the last time being in 2007, losing 34 – 14.

The Falcons also wore their all-black uniform in 2007 against the New York Giants, and in 2008 against the Carolina Panthers and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ( for the second time ).

The Atlanta Falcons wore 1966 throwback jerseys for 2 home games in 2009 – against the Carolina Panthers on September 20 and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on November 29.

Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.

The Bengals have worn their black uniforms at home throughout their history, with some exceptions such as the 1970 season when the Bengals wore white at home for the entire season, and most of the 1971 season.

William Aspdin's innovation was counterintuitive for manufacturers of " artificial cements ", because they required more lime in the mix ( a problem for his father ), a much higher kiln temperature ( and therefore more fuel ), and the resulting clinker was very hard and rapidly wore down the millstones, which were the only available grinding technology of the time.

Mail-clad warriors typically wore separate rigid helms over their mail coifs for head protection.

In his later years, Linebarger proudly wore a tie with the Chinese characters for this name embroidered on it.

He has not played major roles in any of his own films, but he did put in a brief appearance as a gynecologist in The Fly ; he can also be glimpsed among the sex-crazed hordes in Shivers ; he can be heard as an unseen car-pound attendant in Crash ; his hands can be glimpsed in eXistenZ ; and he appeared as a stand-in for James Woods in Videodrome for shots in which Woods ' character wore a helmet that covered his head.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

During the same season, the Cowboys also wore their 1960 – 63 road jersey with a silver helmet for one game as part of a league-wide " throwback " policy.

During the 1995 season, the team wore the navy " Double-Star " jersey for games at Washington and Philadelphia and permanently switched to solid color socks ( royal blue for the white uniform, and navy blue for the dark uniform ).