Sitting in the dugout before games, arms crossed over his Yankee windbreaker, manager Joe Girardi often appears to have been lifted right out of another era.

He happily declares that he doesn't blog, doesn't Tweet, and he generally gives the impression that he could take or leave much of the fast-paced modern world. There, too, is the military-style buzz cut, the refusal to cuss, and the adherence to golly-gee family values, all making Girardi seem more 1950s than 21st century.

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