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In 1997, Major League Baseball honored Jackie Robinson by making his No. 42 the first uniform number to be retired across the sport.
That said, players who were wearing No. 42 at the time were grandfathered in, meaning they could choose to continue wearing it until they retired. Thus, some teams have had a player wear No. 42 more recently than others and some have never handed out that uniform to anyone.
Here s a look at the last player to wear No. 42 for each MLB team:
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Blue Jays: Xavier Hernandez (1989)
Hernandez, a right-handed relief pitcher, made his debut with the Blue Jays in 1989 and appeared in seven games, covering 22 2/3 innings that season before the Astros selected him in the Rule 5 Draft. Toronto had drafted Hernandez in the fourth round in 86 and he developed as a starter, but came out of the bullpen for the majority of his 10-year Major League career.
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William Roger Clemens | SP | 1997-1998
We might as well get the bad stuff out of the way right off the start; Clemens is mentioned 82 times in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball. Did he start using in Toronto? Roger did have a jump in performance when he hit Toronto. Clemens met his soon-to-be personal trainer and later-to-be accuser
Brian McNamee in Toronto. McNamee is known to be a supplier of steroids and human growth hormones. Clemens hired McNamee as a personal trainer in 1997, his first year in Toronto. McNamee has stated that he injected Clemens with steroids. It seems beyond the standard suspension of disbelief that Clemens would hire a trainer who supplied steroids to others without using himself. I guess it is worth noting that Roger denies that he used steroids or human growth hormones. Of course, Roger has denied many things over the years, and often those denials have rung more than a lit