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Article: Is Beltran next on Yankees' wish list.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 2, 2004
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Byline: Joe Posnanski
NEW YORK_Yankees fans watched him. They watched him with greedy eyes. They watched him hit a line shot down the right-field line and then cruise around second base like Michael Andretti taking turn three at the Indianapolis 500.
They watched him crack a long fly ball that hooked just foul and smashed off the upper-deck facade. They watched him chase line drives into the gap, gliding as smoothly as, dare ye blaspheme here at the grand cathedral of baseball, DiMaggio himself.
Oh, Yankees fans watched him all right.
"Daddy,'' you could hear them saying, sounding an awful lot like Veruca Salt from "Willy Wonka and the ...