Baseball loses Don Zimmer, 83

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    Don Zimmer wasn't a fixture in baseball forever. It just seemed that way.

    He played alongside Jackie Robinson on the only Brooklyn Dodgers team to win the World Series. He coached Derek Jeter on the New York Yankees' latest dynasty. And his own manager once was the illustrious Casey Stengel.

    For 66 years, Zimmer was a most popular presence at ballparks all over, a huge chaw often filling his cheek. Everyone in the game seemed to know him, and love him.

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