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Three Strikes: Nose tackle at shortstop edition

By Jayson Stark

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

STRIKE ONE -- NOSE TACKLE AT SHORTSTOP DEPT.: I'm sitting in the press box in Lakeland, Fla. I'm looking at the travel roster for the New York Yankees. The Yankees, as you probably heard someplace, are famous for all their uniform numbers in the single digits. But not on this day, they're not. Apparently, Ruth, Gehrig and DiMaggio are all off at the World Baseball Classic, because the numbers I'm perusing are practically in TRIPLE digits. There's your starting shortstop -- No. 90, Ramiro Pena ...

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