Retirement and Honors
| Rusty Staub's number 10 was retired by the Montreal Expos in 1993. |
Staub's career ended at the age of 41 in 1985. He was only 284 hits shy of the 3000 hit milestone. He was the only major league player to have 500 hits with four different teams. He, Ty Cobb, and Gary Sheffield share the distinction of being the only players to hit home runs before turning 20 years old, and after turning 40 years old.
Staub was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2004, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Niagara University. Jesuit High School, where Rusty graduated, annually gives the Rusty Staub Award to the leader of the varsity baseball team. In 2006, Staub was inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame and six years later, in 2012, he was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
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