Jeter, Derek
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| Position | Shortstop |
| Team | New York Yankees |
| Years of Experience | 10 years |
| Age | 31 |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Bats | Right |
| Throws | Right |
| College | N/A |
| 2005 Salary | $19,600,000 |
| Place of Birth | Pequannock, New Jersey |
| Selection | 1st round, 6th pick 1992 amateur draft |
| Drafted by | New York Yankees |
| Major League Debut | May 29, 1995 |
Derek Sanderson Jeter (born June 26, 1974 in Pequannock, New Jersey) is the current starting shortstop for the New York Yankees baseball team and a six-time All-Star.
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Early life
Derek Jeter was born in Pequannock, New Jersey to Charles and Dorothy Jeter; however, most of his childhood was spent in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jeter was a star baseball player at Kalamazoo Central High School, where he also played basketball, and in 1992 he was named High School Player of the Year by the American Baseball Coaches Association. Although he received a baseball scholarship to attend the University of Michigan, he was drafted by the New York Yankees in the first round of the 1992 amateur draft.
Pro baseball accomplishments
Jeter made his major league debut on May 29, 1995. He earned Rookie of the Year honors in his first full season, 1996, in which he had a .314 batting average. During the 8th inning of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series that year, Jeter was awarded a home run on a memorable and controversial play. Jeter hit a pitch to the right field wall that was pulled into the stands by a 12-year-old spectator, thereby depriving Oriole outfielder Tony Tarasco the opportunity of making a play. Despite protests from the Orioles, the home run call was upheld, which allowed the Yankees to tie and eventually win the game in extra innings.
Jeter has maintained his success on the field. During the 1998 season, Jeter batted .324, led the American League with 127 runs, earned his first All-Star appearance, and placed 3rd in the AL MVP voting.
1999 showed more progress, as Jeter reached career highs in batting average, home runs, RBIs and walks, and led the AL in hits with 219. During the 2000 season, he was voted the MVP of the All-Star Game and the World Series.
The 2004 season was quite a rollercoaster for Jeter statistically. Early in the year, he had a mysterious 0-for-27 slump and inexplicably was hitting .198 after the first two months of the season. However, he later recovered and ended the year with 23 home runds and a .292 batting average.
In 2004 and 2005 Jeter won the American League Gold Glove Award.
Memorable postseason player
Throughout his career, Jeter has been known as one of the best postseason players in baseball history. Since arriving in the majors in 1996, Jeter has played in the playoffs every year, and was a member of 6 American League Championship teams and 4 World Series Championship teams. Jeter's personal postseason performance has been a major factor in the Yankees' success. As of 2005, Jeter has a career .306 postseason batting average.
Some of Jeter's most memorable moments have come in postseason play. These include the aforemetioned eighth inning, game-tying faux home run against Baltimore in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS and his game-winning, tenth-inning home run off Arizona's Byung-Hyun Kim in Game 4 of the 2001 World Series.
Yankee captain
The Yankees named Jeter the 11th captain in Yankees history on June 3, 2003. (However, Howard W. Rosenberg, the foremost historian on baseball captains and author of the 2003 book Cap Anson 1: When Captaining a Team Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years, has found that the count of Yankee captains failed to count Hall of Famer Clark Griffith, the 1903-05 captain, and Kid Elberfeld, the 1906-09 one, with 1913 Manager Frank Chance a strong circumstantial candidate to have been captain that year as well. Therefore, Jeter may in fact be the 13th or 14th Yankees captain.)
Trivia
- Has his own signature line of sneakers under the Jordan brand, a division of Nike.
- Has appeared in national ad campaigns for Nike, Gatorade, Fleet Bank, MasterCard, Visa, Skippy Peanut Butter and XM Satellite Radio, among others.
- Receives a reported $6 million per year in endorsements.
- Voted the 'most marketable player in baseball' in a 2005 Sports Business Journal poll.
- Ranked 38th in Forbes' 2005 list of the Top 100 Celebrities. [1]
- Best friend in baseball is teammate Jorge Posada. Jeter served as best man at Posada's wedding.
External links
- Baseball Almanac page
- Baseball Library page
- Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis
- Corrected Yankee Captains chronology
- MLB.com page
- Jeter's official page (host by MLB)
| Preceded by: Marty Cordova |
American League Rookie of the Year 1996 |
Succeeded by: Nomar Garciaparra |