Word: jeter
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...association between sports and city abound--Broadway Joe Namath uses his big-city playboy image to this day; Mickey Mantle, the Oklahoma kid who made it big on America's biggest stage came straight out of a Horatio Alger novel; Hideki Irabu's introduction to New York was Derek Jeter giving him a tour of the Chinatown club scene; and let us not forget the New York Knicks, the lovable bullies of the NBA--the civic myth of New York lives a charmed life within its sports scene...
...perfect the first two innings, striking out four. He ran into trouble in the third, giving up a run, and again in the fifth, when he gave up another run and walked two batters to load the bases. That necessitated a conference on the mound that had shortstop Derek Jeter laughing. "Everybody was trying to tell him something," Jeter said. Irabu somehow got the message--and the next batter to ground out. He breezed through the sixth and had two outs with nobody on in the seventh when Torre brought in a reliever so that Irabu could walk...
...nice things about finally having him in the World Series, after 4,280 games as a very good player and an exceedingly decent manager, is that he brings a sense of both family and history to the Series. When shortstop Derek Jeter threw to first for the final out in the Yankees' A.L.C.S.-clinching victory over the Orioles in Baltimore on Oct. 13, he set off a love-in the likes of which is rarely seen in baseball. Torre openly wept as he embraced his equally teary coaches and players. Later, Torre expressed his love, over and over...
When she finally confessed, Smith reportedly explained to police how she had been overwhelmed by worries about "money, her failed marriage and a series of other romantic relationships in disarray." "Something had to be going on there," says Lewis Jeter III, the former special-education teacher at Union High School who supervised Susan in the Junior Civitan Club, which helped disabled kids. He remembers "a sweet, loving young lady" who seemed to adore children. "The woman that killed her children is not the same young woman I knew in high school," he insists. "Someone close to her should have noticed...