The Impact

Death of a Yankee Era

October 16, 2012

1996 was the year I first started following baseball and the New York Yankees religiously. I felt a kinship with another Yankee rookie that year, a 22 year old shortstop named Derek Jeter. Jeter wasn't the expressive warrior that Paul O'Neil was, didn't hit big home runs like Tino Martinez, and...

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