{"id":616396,"date":"2026-02-26T01:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/616396\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:28:16","slug":"cc-sabathia-to-become-24th-yankees-legend-to-have-his-jersey-number-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/616396\/","title":{"rendered":"CC Sabathia to become 24th Yankees legend to have his jersey number retired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/news\/cc-sabathia-24th-yankees-legend-jersey-number-retired\/9cfe0066b6c1887deeadec3d?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CC Sabathia to become 24th Yankees legend to have his jersey number retired;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CC Sabathia to become 24th Yankees legend to have his jersey number retired<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Yankees;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Yankees<\/a> are bestowing an awesome honor upon CC Sabathia.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was expected once Sabathia made it into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but now it&#8217;s official: Sabathia will have his jersey number retired by the Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Sabathia wore No. 52 with the Yanks, and they&#8217;ll hold a ceremony in September to honor the big left-hander.<\/p>\n<p>It brings Sabathia into an amazing club. He&#8217;ll be the 24th jersey number retired in the Yankees&#8217; storied history.<\/p>\n<p><b>MORE:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates\/news\/pirates-marcell-ozuna-most-hilarious-25000-contract-incentive\/a62a62c457ac0141aa0abeec\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Marcell Ozuna has the funniest $25,000 contract incentive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Marcell Ozuna has the funniest $25,000 contract incentive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jersey numbers retired by the Yankees<\/p>\n<p>These are the jersey numbers retired by the Yankees:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p>Some of the best players of all time, all part of one special club.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CC Sabathia to become 24th Yankees legend to have his jersey number retired originally appeared on The Sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":616397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[28673,47071,32695,46712,1266,235470,2228,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-616396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-derek-jeter","tag-jersey-number","tag-marcell-ozuna","tag-mlb","tag-national-baseball-hall-of-fame","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116134340471380416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}