He returned on Opening Day of the 1996 season as the starting shortstop ( the first Yankee rookie since Tom Tresh in 1962 to do so ) and hit his first major-league home run on that day . He started on Opening Day of the 1996 season as the starting shortstop ( the first Yankee rookie since Tom Tresh in 1962 to do so ) and hit his first major-league home run on that day .