Years after retiring from the Yankees, Derek Jeter wanted to take a big swing. The Hall of Fame shortstop explained why he decided to reflect on his famously private MLB career through a new ESPN documentary series, “The Captain,” after the first episode premiered Sunday night at the Tribeca Festival. “It started right around the Hall of Fame,” Jeter, who is in the baseball hall’s 2020 class, said onstage during a talk at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. “I thought, ‘I want...
again.” “Derek is the greatest Yankee of our generation,” Martinez said, before recalling what Jeter’s home run did... We knew that game was over.” PHOTOS: Yankees retire Jeter's...
place Derek Jeter's going is to Cooperstown." The second through fifth picks were Paul Shuey... Weighing 156 pounds (71 kg), Jeter had a scrawny appearance that did not match his reputation...
Here’s to you, Numbah Two. The Yankees paid “RE2PECT” to The Captain on Sunday night, retiring Derek Jeter’s No. 2 and honoring him with a plaque in Monument Park during a 45-minute ceremony at Yankee Stadium before a sellout crowd prior to the second game of their Mother’s Day doubleheader with the Astros. “There isn’t a player that I would trade places with that is playing now or ever,” Jeter said during a nearly four-minute, off-the-cuff speech. “And the reason why I say that is because I got to play for a first-class organ ...
The Core Four — including Derek Jeter in his first post-retirement visit — was on hand at Yankee Stadium Sunday night to officially send Bernie Williams into retirement. But to Andy Pettitte, the Yankees should have a Fab Five instead, with Williams a big part of it. “Oh there’s no doubt about it (that he belongs in the group that includes the Core Four),” Pettitte said Sunday night before the Yankees retired Williams’ No. 51. “I mean, he just missed one, the 2009 (World Series) so...
Known to New York Yankees major league baseball team legions fans as the always-reliable shortstop, Derek Jeter was one of the all-time greats. His defense was as good as his offense, and he was the Yankees captain during his illustrious career there. Yankee Stadium was certainly Jeter’s home away from home. For a while, this Hall of Fame baseball player had part ownership and CEO duties for the Miami Marlins MLB baseball team. Additionally, he has done some acting and is a prolific businessma...
Andrew Marchand, ESPN Senior Writer Sep 7, 2014, 02:22 PM ET NEW YORK -- On Derek Jeter Day in the Bronx, the Yankees honored their captain by bringing in the likes of Michael Jordan, Cal...
Derek Jeter has won the auction for the Marlins for $1.2 billion and will serve as the... Sherman, who lives in Naples, Fla., did not know Jeter until he found out the retired Yankee was...
Alan Cohen ; “Baseball is a lot about attitude — not getting too up or down, enjoy each game, then forget it and go on. Review the game, learn from your mistakes, but don’t let it burden you. A lot of things matter more than talent: work, education, never being satisfied. These intangibles have made Derek what he is.”2 — S. Charles Jeter, 2002 · The young boy went with his parents and sister to Tiger Stadium in Detroit on a Sunday afternoon in 1985, three days before his 11th birthda...
Derek Jeter held a microphone and spoke without notes to the crowd that filled sold-out Yankee Stadium. His No. 2, the last of the single digit pinstripes, had been retired and a plaque in his hono...