BRONX, N.Y. — Practically everyone has a favorite number. Perhaps even a lucky number. In baseball, a number can also be superstitious.

BRONX, N.Y. — Practically everyone has a favorite number. Perhaps even a lucky number. In baseball, a number can also be superstitious.

For baseball fans, all of us associate numbers with certain players, especially depending on the era. Fans of the New York Yankees are no different.

With their recent acquisition of outfielder Joey Gallo from the Texas Rangers, No. 13 has re-entered circulation in Yankee Land. The number had lain dormant since Alex Rodriguez was nudged into retirement in Aug. 2016.

Certainly, there is precedent for this, Paul O’Neill’s No. 21 was in limbo following 2001, until poor LaTroy Hawkins had it for a New York minute and the team received backlash in 2008.