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Following Yankees Loss to Tigers, It’s Time to »
I get it. The New York Yankees lost.They’re dead and done with. Their season is over, finished, terminado. They’ll be playing golf next week. The season was a disappointment, maybe even a bitter one.As the calendar flipped to October, the American League leader in runs put up a Mexican League effort. A top-tier Cy Young candidate [...]
I Grew Up with Derek Jeter: His Role in the Upbringing »
More than the Toy Story trilogy, Nickelodeon and perhaps Yankee Stadium itself, Derek Jeter was my childhood.As a New Yorker growing up in the late '90s and throughout the '00s, my sports fandom and the Yankee captain’s career are inexorably linked. He was my first connection to professional sports, the superhuman shortstop whose face [...]