Roger Angell: Local Boy Makes Good |via The New Yorker Blog
You noticed him—the uplifted chin, the pale gaze, the upraised left elbow in midswing, the timely double—and you noticed, too, that he was there, already a fixture, while the Yankees won four straight World Championships between 1996 and 2000, while playing on into October for thirteen years. He was like the kid brother in the family who’d somehow become bigger and stronger and nicer and richer than the rest of us… and he still feels that way.