Baseball Honors
| Bill Terry's number 3 was retired by the San Francisco Giants in 1984. |
Terry was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1954. In 1999, he ranked number 59 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was a nominee for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. The Giants retired Terry's uniform no. 3 in 1984; it is posted on the facade of the upper deck in the left field corner of AT&T Park.
Bill Terry is mentioned in the poem "Line-Up for Yesterday" by Ogden Nash:
Line-Up for YesterdayT is for Terry
The Giant from Memphis
Whose .400 average
You can't overemphis.
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