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good ideas are often slow to be recognized.__tommy rice, sportswriter for the Brooklyn eagle, wrote about the need to have numbers on the backs of baseball players._,fans had a hard time telling who was who._he wrote column after column, rice always got same reply from club owners---'ridiculous!" rice _gave up trying._,the Yankee managementannounced that they would number theirb players, and other team'sfollowed suit.__baseball managers were very slow to see it, Tommy Rice's idea made sense.

Good ideas are often slow to be recognized. For years tommy rice, sportswriter for the Brooklyn eagle, wrote about the need to have numbers on the backs of baseball players. Without numbers ,fans had a hard time telling who was who. Although he wrote column after column, rice always got same reply from club owners---'ridiculous!" rice suddenly gave up trying. then In 1982, the Yankee management finally announced that they would number their players, and other team's soon followed suit. Although baseball managers were very slow to see it, Tommy Rice's idea made sense.

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