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A team for the ages: The 1990s

Jerone Pettus graduated from Roosevelt High School as

Photo credit: Photo by Joe Rogate | Jerone Pettus graduated from Roosevelt High School as Nassau County's all-time leading rusher. (Oct. 2, 1999)

The 1990s brought global change with three little "w's" -- World Wide Web. The Internet explosion dictated new parameters in the way we live. "Chatting" served up a whole new language of LOL, BTW, BRB, ROFL and TTYL, and we held our breath to see if our computers would survice the Y2K bug.

From Pokemon, Gretzky and Jordan to Joe Torre's Yankees, this was the setting for these players on Newsday's ...

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