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IN THE FUTURE, BASEBALL paleontologists will gather to discuss the most remarkable events of the early 21st century. They will study fossilized spike prints, old gloves preserved in amber and petrified bats.
They will proclaim it the A-rodozoic age, the time when meek little role players emerged as the most feared -- and well-paid creatures on the landscape. From the Nomarasarus to Jeter Raptor to the most ferocious of them all: Tyrannosaurus Alex.
It is the era of the shortstop.
In the game's evolution, no position on the diamond has come further. When the game was first played, the shortstop didn't even exist. It wasn't until just before the ...