Butch Huskey, one of the last MLB players to wear Jackie Robinson's famed number 42, dies at 54

Butch Huskey, 1 of the last MLB players to deterioration No. 42, has died astatine property 54.

Huskey initially wore No. 10 with the New York Mets but changed his jersey fig to No. 42 successful 1995, 2 years earlier Major League Baseball retired the fig league-wide successful grant of Jackie Robinson.

Yet erstwhile MLB retired the number, it allowed those already wearing it — similar Huskey, Mo Vaughn and Mariano Rivera — to beryllium grandfathered successful and proceed donning the fig connected their jerseys arsenic agelong arsenic they were inactive playing, nary substance who they played for.

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Brian McRae of the New York Mets is congratulated by teammate Butch Huskey arsenic helium crosses location sheet to people connected a azygous by teammate Alberto Castillo arsenic Matt Franco runs from the dugout connected March 31 astatine Shea Stadium successful Flushing, New York. The Mets bushed the Philadelphia Phillies 1-0 aft 15 innings successful their location opener. (Jon Levy/AFP via Getty Images)

Thus, adjacent erstwhile Huskey near the Mets, helium was capable to deterioration the fig with the Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins. Huskey besides played for the Boston Red Sox successful 1999 but opted for No. 44.

The Mets announced his decease connected societal media.

Huskey made his MLB debut successful 1993 but did not get afloat playing clip until 3 years aboriginal with his caller number. Playing mostly archetypal basal successful 1996, helium impressed with a .278 batting mean and .754 OPS. In 1997, helium improved by hitting .287 with an .822 OPS, belting a career-high 24 location runs and driving successful 81 runs, besides the astir of his career. He took a measurement backmost the pursuing season, though, and was traded to the Mariners the pursuing offseason.

Outfielder Butch Huskey of the New York Mets is successful enactment during a crippled against the Houston Astros astatine Shea Stadium successful Flushing, New York, connected April 27, 1998. The Mets defeated the Astros 4-3. (David Seelig/Getty Images)

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Huskey was past moved from Seattle to Boston successful the 1999 season. The Sox made the postseason arsenic a chaotic card, but they mislaid to the New York Yankees successful the American League Championship Series en way to the Bombers' 2nd of 3 consecutive World Series victories.

His past stint was with the Colorado Rockies, with whom helium wore No. 35.

Huskey is the past idiosyncratic to deterioration No. 42 successful Mariners history, and lone 4 players wore it aft him successful the large leagues: Vaughn, Rivera, Michael Jackson and Jose Lima.

A presumption from down location sheet displays the creation connected the tract successful representation of Jackie Robinson during the Los Angeles Dodgers' 5-2 triumph implicit the New York Mets astatine Shea Stadium successful Flushing, New York, connected April 16, 1997. Butch Huskey of the New York Mets is the batter. (Getty Images)

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The fig was retired for Robinson during 1 of Huskey's Mets games against Robinson's erstwhile Dodgers, who had since moved to Los Angeles.

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