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D'backs ink Hinske, Nieves to one-year deals CNNSI.com PHOENIX (AP) The Arizona Diamondbacks completed one-year contracts with free agent Eric Hinske and catcher Wil Nieves on Thursday.
	Don Larsen’s perfect game jersey sells for $756K Dec 6, 2012 Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com Turns out you can put a price on perfection. The total: $756,000 for the New York Yankees jersey that Don Larsen wore in 1956 while pitching the only perfect game in World Series history. As reported by Darren Rovell of ESPN.com, the auction for the fam…
	Larsen's perfect game jersey auctioned for $750K Dec 6, 2012 CNNSI.com NEW YORK (AP) -- The uniform Don Larsen was wearing when he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history has sold for $756,000.
	Yankees Offer Youkilis One-Year Deal to Play Third Dec 6, 2012 Tyler Kepner, nytimes.com The Yankees offered Kevin Youkilis $12 million to play third base, a position that opened up because of Alex Rodriguez's imminent hip surgery. Related: ESPN.com
	Larsen auctions off World Series perfect game jersey Dec 6, 2012 Adam Berry, MLB.com Former Yankees pitcher Don Larsen, the author of the only perfect game in World Series history, parted with a prized possession and a piece of baseball history Wednesday night.
	Yankees offer Youkilis one-year, $12 million deal Dec 6, 2012 Bryan Hoch, MLB.com The Yankees have offered Kevin Youkilis a one-year, $12 million contract, hoping that the former Red Sox star will help fill their void at third base.
	End of the world sale! Normal CornBelters make tickets available before doomsday Dec 6, 2012 Mark Townsend, yahoo.com As the winter meetings reach their final day and the New York Yankees continue getting beat to the punch on potential free agent targets, one can't help but wonder if the Mayans were correct in predicting Dec. 21, 2012 as the day the world will cease to…
	Yankees can't even reel in role players like Eric Chavez, Jeff Keppinger and Marco Scutaro in free agency at winter meetings Dec 6, 2012 nydailynews.com Suddenly it feels like 1992, when nobody wanted to play for the Yankees. Except this time it’s not Barry Bonds, Greg Maddux, and David Cone shunning the pinstripes, but Eric Chavez, Jeff Keppinger, and Marco Scutaro. What’s going on here, anyway?
	Jeter says he should be ready for Opening Day Dec 6, 2012 Associated Press, ESPN.com Derek Jeter cheerily posed with four student leaders from his Turn 2 Foundation who were wearing Yankees jerseys and elf hats and asked a question to the group of photographers snapping away.