The message to the Yankee shortstop: keep his head up.

The new Yankee shortstop grinned afterward when someone asked about it.

Time has made a few changes on the former Yankee shortstop and third-base coach.

The Yankee shortstop offers his game plan for success.

He is the Yankee shortstop, perhaps their most valuable and most steady player of the long, hot summer.

He also chopped his error total from 56 in 1993 to 25 in 1994 and was destined to be the next Yankee shortstop.

Rizzuto, who became the Yankee shortstop in 1941, and Mantle were teammates from 1951 to 1956.

"There are so many things I want to catch up on," said Kubek, a former Yankee shortstop.

With all the noise, it's seemingly impossible for a casual fan to place the Yankees shortstop in his proper spot in history.

He came here early to work with Bucky Dent, the former Yankee shortstop, and has worked a bit at second.