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By HOLLIE McKAY
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Depending on how you want to look at things, at one point the Yankees had gone about 40 years without having a star shortstop. From the decline of Phil Rizzuto to the arrival of Derek Jeter, the Yankees patched together a long line of good-field/no-hit (and sometimes no-field/no-hit) shortstops. When Jeter arrived, it changed everything. In the before-Jeter era, the Yankees had to play it straight when it came to building their teams. Since his coming, Jeter has excused a multitude of sins — not that he should have been asked to do so.

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By HOLLIE McKAY
|Depending on how you want to look at things, at one point the Yankees had gone about 40 years without having a star shortstop. From the decline of Phil Rizzuto to the arrival of Derek Jeter, the Yankees patched together a long line of good-field/no-hit (and sometimes no-field/no-hit) shortstops. When Jeter arrived, it changed everything. In the before-Jeter era, the Yankees had to play it straight when it came to building their teams. Since his coming, Jeter has excused a multitude of sins — not that he should have been asked to do so.
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