To understand why the Yankees second baseman has fit in so well in New York, it requires a full accounting of his whole self.

Long a sport in which celebrations of practically any sort would result in an up-and-in fastball, baseball has adapted to “letting the kids play,” at least more often than in the past. Jazz Chisholm Jr.

Jazz Chisholm always understood how some of baseball views his behaviors. When he put on his earrings and a couple of diamond chains, he knew. When he Euro stepped while crossing home plate on his home runs, the New York Yankees star knew. He was breaking the famous, or infamous, unwritten rules of baseball, at least in the eyes of some.