Former A’s great Dave Stewart’s big day is finally coming.
Stewart, an Oakland native and pitching ace of the A’s “Bash Brothers” teams of the late 1980s and early 90s, will have his No. 34 jersey retired during a ceremony scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 11, the team announced on Friday.
The team in August 2019 announced that Stewart, 65, would become the sixth Oakland player to have his jersey retired, joining Rollie Fingers (who also wore No. 34), Rickey Henderson, Dennis Eckersley, Catfish Hunter and Reggie Jackson. But it never happened during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season or last season.
