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My Unified Field Theory Of Jeter

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In December 1994, America’s top baseball writers and announcers boarded a plane headed for their annual secret meeting in Kalamazoo. By total coincidence, Derek Jeter was on the same flight, returning home for Christmas. When the ship’s crew became violently ill, Jeter took the helm and landed the plane safely. Unable to speak of their heroic rescue without revealing their secret cabal, the gaggle swore to beatify Jeter, to make him the biracial angel.

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