OAKLAND — The A’s put an exclamation mark on a ceremony honoring the 30th anniversary of the 1989 World Series championship team by announcing that Dave Stewart, the Oakland-born pitching ace of that team, will have his uniform No. 34 retired.
Stewart is the sixth Oakland A’s player to have his number retired, and the only one who isn’t in the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. The others are Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Rickey Henderson and Dennis Eckersley. Fingers also wore No. 34.
Stewart joined nine other players, including Eckersely and Henderson, for the reunion Sunday before the A’s game against the Giants.