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Article: Where have you gone, Derek Jeter?
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- July 24, 2001
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Before We Enshrine the Local Hero,
Let's Take a Look at Some Cold Facts
Derek Jeter is a Yankee immortal, at least as far as James Fiorentino is concerned. In the bowels of the Stadium, just outside the Yankee clubhouse, the 24-year-old Middlesex, New Jersey, baseball-card artist fidgets, standing in front of his latest creation: a giant oil painting of 15 Yankee immortals. His goal: to get the only active Yankee among this collection of greats to sign it.
Jeter emerges from the Yankee clubhouse, shakes hands without eye contact. The shortstop grabs a blue Sharpie and, with a practiced stroke, John Hancocks it quickly but precisely. He gives the painting only a cursory glance, focusing ...