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Aiming to escape pinstriped anonymity, Hicks helps Yankees clinch

NEW YORK -- Aaron Hicks, a player his manager calls one of the "more underappreciated" in baseball, was lounging Saturday afternoon, sitting comfortably in the plush leather chair in front of his locker as college football games flickered on nearby flatscreens.

The New York Yankees center fielder was the calm, even-keeled antithesis of the man the baseball world saw later in the day.