Did you know the Marlins retired the No. 5? Me either.
Well, it’s been unretired, MLB.com reports. Originally set aside to honor Carl Barger, the team’s first president and chief operating officer, the team has allowed outfielder Logan Morrison to don the number.
Barger died on Dec. 9, 1992, before the Marlins ever played a game. The Marlins retired the number because his favorite player was Joe DiMaggio.
Morrison, though, is doing it to honor a different No. 5, his dad’s favorite player, George Brett. (I won’t say what it means about me that Logan Morrison’s dad and I have the same all-time favorite player.) Morrison was born in Kansas City and on Twitter, he said his father always told him to play the game like Brett. Morrison’s father, Tom, died after Morrison’s rookie year in 2010.
