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DIED. FRANK CROSETTI, 91, shortstop who became third-base coach for the New York Yankees for a total of 37 seasons; in Stockton, Calif. "Once a Yankee, always a Yankee," he said...
...hasn’t noticed that the Series is over. “Mmm, Derek, baby,” she moaned, staring at her life-size Derek Jeter poster. “You can squat behind my plate anytime,” she whispered huskily, unaware that Jeter plays shortstop, not catcher...
...Maybe the Yankee ghosts finally got through security. Rivera mowed the D-Backs down in the top of the 10th. Then Kim, pitching in his third inning, got two easy outs to start the bottom half. Up stepped shortstop Derek Jeter. The Kalamazoo Clipper, who was hitting all of .067 for the series, fell behind 0-2. He got the count up to 3-2, fouled a couple of pitches off and then took a Kim delivery to the short porch in right field. He rounded the bases at 12:04 a.m. with the second and decisive homer. Double shots...
...Stan Musial, Dave Winfield & Carl Yastrzemski... Pete Rose owns the 11th- and 15-longest playing streaks in major league history (745; 678). The sum of those streaks still falls 1,209 games short of Ripken's mark... Ripken holds the major league record for home runs hit by a shortstop, with 345... 5,045 players were put on the disabled list from the time Ripken started his consecutive games streak to the time he first went on the DL in April 1999... Ripken was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year...
...almost as if he has a tennis racket in his hands," says John Moses, Seattle's first-base coach. "I'm gonna lob this one?and it's a blooper over the shortstop's head. I'm gonna ace this one?and it's a liner down the right field line. He's toying with guys, and there's nothing they can do about...