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Who wore Yankees No. 2 before Derek Jeter? A baseball lifer
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Derek Jeter's No. 2, Last of Yankees' Single Digits, to Be Retired - The New York Times
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Yankees Honor Derek Jeter as an Icon of His Generation - The New York Times
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Where Derek Jeter ranks among Yankees' retired single-digit numbers
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Special Feature on Derek Jeter — in the May Issue of Yankees Magazine, by Yankees Magazine
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List of New York Yankees captains - Wikipedia
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Derek Jeter's first Yankees jersey sold for $369,000
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Former Yankees who wore No. 2 share memories of number and Derek Jeter – New York Daily News
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Former Yankees who wore No. 2 share memories of number and Derek Jeter – New York Daily News
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Yankees Try to Calculate the Value of Derek Jeter's Legacy - The New York Times