Retirement
| Frank Thomas's number 35 was retired by the Chicago White Sox in 2010. |
On February 12, 2010, Thomas announced his retirement from Major League Baseball after not playing in the 2009 season. During the same press conference, the Chicago White Sox, for whom he played 15-plus seasons, announced that they would retire No. 35 for him on August 29, 2010.
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Famous quotes containing the word retirement:
“The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Douglas. Now remains a sweet reversion—
We may boldly spend, upon the hope
Of what is to come in.
A comfort of retirement lives in this.
Hotspur. A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)