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Jeter wins SI honor

Derek Jeter may have finished third in AL MVP voting but was tops in 2009 as far as Sports Illustrated was concerned as the magazine named him as its Sportsman of the Year.

Tom Verducci's cover story will be in the Dec. 7 issue.

Jeter is the first Yankee to win the award and first solo baseball player to win since Cal Ripken Jr. in 1995 (Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were co-winners in...

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