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Who will take the fall?

By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

This article appears in the Nov. 2 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Charles Darwin wouldn't have had to bother with mockingbirds and tortoises and flowers if he'd been born a century later. To prove his theory of natural selection, he could have just watched baseball in October, when players with specific traits tend to thrive, and the rest get left behind by history. How is it that Derek Jeter always seems to be smack dab in the middle of the biggest plays in the biggest games? And how is it th ...

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