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HAWTHORNE, N.Y. -- Michael Tavaniere, 80, walked up a grassy slope in Gate of Heaven Cemetery and approached a granite monument depicting Jesus blessing a little boy in a baseball [...]

SEATTLE -- When Andrew Moore was pitching in college, he began to keep a journal in which he would make notations after each game -- cues he could begin to [...]

Aaron Judge dented a metal plate above a door beyond the left-center-field wall at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. He did not do this with his bat or with his fist. [...]

Derek Jeter officially took his place among Yankees immortals on Sunday, with a plaque in Monument Park and his famous No. 2 taking its place among 21 other retired numbers [...]

It has been 36 years now, Diana Munson said on Saturday, so very long since her world changed forever and the Yankees lost their captain. She is grateful that fans [...]

BOSTON -- In the late-morning pregame hours, the scent of downtime in the air of the Yankees' cramped Fenway Park redoubt, a handful of players were glued to a television [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rinaldo Ardizoia sat near a bay window inside his pink San Francisco house, gazing at a bulky wooden television set -- a 22-inch Zenith with a slightly [...]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- For a generation, Don Mattingly embodied the Yankees ideal. He was the team's best player, its captain and a revered figure for the way he carried [...]

Byline: Mike Wise Derek Jeter hit just one grand slam in his 20-year major league career. He never won a batting title or was the American League MVP. When baseball's [...]

Being a baseball fan is like going on a diet or practicing politics: There are several different levels of extremity. The fans who showed up on Thursday for Derek Jeter's [...]

Folded onto the back of J. J. Hardy's chair in the Baltimore Orioles' clubhouse at Yankee Stadium this week was a white towel emblazoned with a No. 2 framed against [...]

During his 20 seasons with the Yankees, Derek Jeter has become a fan favorite for a variety of [...]

Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka, old friends and rivals from both the Pacific League in Japan and the American League, met in the tunnel underneath Yankee Stadium on Monday afternoon [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports Derek Jeter doesn't remember the exact moment they met, but the two will be forever linked for their prodigious achievements. Surely, they will [...]

MILWAUKEE -- The Yankees announced Thursday that they would retire the No. 6 worn by the former manager Joe Torre, something they had informally said they would do. They also [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- They ran up and down the residential streets of Indian Hills in metropolitan Louisville, Ky., playing basketball, football and baseball by day and flashlight tag at night. [...]

Children do not play ball on the beach at Puerto Caimito the way they did when Mariano Rivera was a boy. Erosion and construction have changed the dimensions of the [...]

BOSTON -- Mariano Rivera received a standing ovation from the fans at Fenway Park when he entered the game for the Yankees in the ninth inning Saturday. The last time [...]

1:16 a.m. | Updated A few hours before the Yankees and Mets engaged one another on the field the Mets were kind enough to honor Rivera with a few presents [...]

Byline: Chad Jennings The series started with a practical joke, continued with an internal controversy and finished with a handshake. In his final trip to Kansas City -- where he [...]

Lyle Overbay laughed when he was compared with Derek Jeter. The notion that he -- a 36-year-old first baseman long removed from his best years -- could fill the void [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- An unlikely friendship was forged in front of Hiroki Kuroda's locker Thursday morning when the quiet and clean-cut Kuroda invited the gregarious and tattooed David Wells to [...]

TAMPA, Fla. -- Maybe in some parallel universe, it would not be shocking to see David Ortiz, slugger for the Boston Red Sox, and Ivan Nova, starting pitcher for the [...]

Byline: Paul White, USA TODAY Derek Jeter admits he'd prefer to get his 3,000th hit at Yankee Stadium. So would the New York Yankees and their fans. 'They care a [...]

Byline: Paul White, USA TODAY Derek Jeter kept up the pace as inevitable as his 3,000th hit might seem to do what he, his fans and his employers want to [...]

Byline: Paul White, USA TODAY Derek Jeter turned anticipation into electricity on one pitch Thursday, but the energy at Yankee Stadium became more difficult to manufacture as the New York [...]

Raleigh, N.C. THE Yankees released me from my contract in 2005. Several years later, I texted Derek Jeter, who still had the same cellphone number, to ask whether he would [...]

Byline: Seth Livingstone, USA TODAY Now, the pressure on Derek Jeter is not only to reach 3,000 hits but to do it at home. Sunday, he gave himself a fighting [...]

MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Brian Cashman, the Yankees' general manager, showed up Monday morning in a golf shirt, slacks and shoes to play 18 holes at Forsgate Country Club, 54 [...]

Mike Piazza earned more than $120 million in his playing career, and if he invested wisely, he might have enough to buy a share of his old team, the Mets. [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees thought they were a phone call away from landing Cliff Lee in July. They now might be two games away [...]

Kevin Long, the Yankees' hitting coach, did not know how to describe what he saw, but he said he sensed a special focus lately in Alex Rodriguez. His 600th home [...]

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Heather Crane recently scrolled through the text messages on the phone of her husband, the golfer Ben Crane, and stumbled upon a few that raised [...]

ON a lonely block in the South Bronx, beyond the reach of Yankee Stadium's shadow and the championship trophies' shine, a forgotten memorial to a fallen baseball demigod sits hidden [...]

The old place is just a shell now, on its way down. The new place is acquiring its own character, its own history. Yankee Stadium never lacks for great moments. [...]

The last game at the old Yankee Stadium was over, Derek Jeter had offered a spirited speech to the fans and players had scooped up some dirt as a memento. […]

Byline: Reid Cherner Eye-opener The timing of the release for the new Thurman Munson biography is a tad eerie. In the wake of Steve McNair's slaying, and on the day [...]

When Herb Raybourn first scouted Mariano Rivera 20 years ago, Rivera was not even standing on the pitcher's mound. Rivera was a 155-pound shortstop gliding across a dusty infield in […]

There's a phenomenon on Facebook these days: people writing notes listing 25 random facts about themselves. With spring training under way, and taking a break from dissecting the latest steroid […]