One of the best parts about baseball is the history of the sport. Teams honor their history in different ways. They might honor it with throwback nights where players wear the uniforms of past teams or bobbleheads of great players who have since retired. But most noticeably, they honor it with the retiring of the numbers of the best players in the history of the team.
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The Oakland Athletics have been stingier than most teams in MLB about retiring their numbers and currently have only five numbers retired.