Mr Kerry has solid Yankee connections, an interesting immigrant background and a lot of folk in Massachusetts probably think he is Irish anyway.

BBC: Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz

With all due respect to the renowned Mr. Sheppard, a Yankee Stadium fixture for over five decades who has been ill and on the sidelines this season, his ultra-serious baritone delivery never did much for me.

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But the Yankee owner said talks with Mr. Cano's agents remain in the preliminary stages.

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