One for thumb

There was a time when it seemed the biggest problem in Derek Jeter's world would be finding a safety-deposit box large enough to contain all the championship rings he would end up with. Surely he would run out of fingers before the Yankee machine ran out of steam.

In 2000, after he had finished his fifth season and picked up his fourth ring, there was no compelling reason to believe that seven years later, he still would be waiting for one for the thumb, same as Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera, same as Jorge Posada, who was up for eight at-bats in 1996 and just about every big moment that followed. Continue