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Derek Sanderson Jeter (/ ˈ dʒ iː t ər / JEE-tər; born June 26, 1974), nicknamed "the Captain", is an American former professional baseball shortstop, businessman, and baseball executive. As a player, Jeter spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees.
The Players' Tribune is a new media platform that produces daily sports conversation and publishes first-person stories from professional athletes. The platform was founded by former professional Major League Baseball player Derek Jeter in 2014.
Jeter is the longest-tenured captain in franchise history, the 2014 season being his 12th as team captain. Howard W. Rosenberg, a baseball historian, found that the official count of Yankees captains failed to include Clark Griffith , the captain from 1903–1905, and Kid Elberfeld , the captain from 1906–1907, while manager Frank Chance may ...
The "Core Four" are former New York Yankees baseball players Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera. Each member of the Core Four was a key contributor to the Yankees' late-1990s and early 2000s dynasty that won four World Series championships in five years, and a fifth in 2009.
The Captain is a 2022 American sports documentary miniseries produced by ESPN Films.Directed by Randy Wilkins, the series focuses on the life and career of Derek Jeter, who served as captain of the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. [1]
In 2008, Derek Jeter asked Sheppard to record his at-bat introductions. [37] The recordings were used to introduce Jeter's home at-bats from the beginning of the 2008 season until his final game at Yankee Stadium on September 25, 2014. [38] Sheppard was flattered: "It has been one of the greatest compliments I have received in my career of ...
On October 9, 1996, the Yankees trailed the Orioles 4–3 in the bottom of the eighth inning when shortstop Derek Jeter hit a deep fly ball to right field. Right fielder Tony Tarasco moved near the fence and appeared "to draw a bead on the ball" [4] when the then-12-year-old Maier clearly reached over the fence separating the stands and the field of play nine feet below and snatched the ball ...
Early in 2002, the Yankees signed him as a free agent, but released him during spring training after Rivera stole teammate Derek Jeter's glove and bat, and then sold them to a sports memorabilia dealer, reportedly for $2,500. [3] After this became known, his teammates allegedly voted him off the team, and the Yankees released him.