By June, he moved up to be the everyday shortstop, batting over .300 and playing spectacular defense.

"I'm not an everyday shortstop, but I can catch the routine balls," he said.

He did not become a regular starter until the 1908 season, when he joined the Senators and became their everyday shortstop.

But the new guy, Bordick, is a solid, everyday shortstop.

From that point until early July, Cusick served as the team's everyday shortstop.

With his arm fully recuperated, he became the everyday shortstop in 1885.

Meacham's hope - to be the Yankees' everyday shortstop - has already begun to slip away.

Two weeks after joining the big club, he had taken over as the everyday shortstop.

But by 1996, the Mariners had decided to make him their everyday shortstop.

Jeter, now 27, hit a home run in his first game as the Yankees' everyday shortstop in 1996.