Retired Jersey Numbers: A Guide to How High Schools Honor Their All-Time Greats
The number 23 no longer belongs to any player on the roster. It belongs to history. That is the message a high school sends when it retires a jersey number — this digit, worn by an extraordinary athlete, will never be reassigned. No future player pulls it from the equipment room, no coach issues it at preseason, no statistician records it in a new column. The number belongs permanently to the athlete who earned that honor, and to the legacy of the program that produced them.
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