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**Derek Jeter**
Derek Jeter
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.

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.

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Derek Jeter warming up before a game.

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

These heroics, as well as his off-the-field leadership, led to the Yankees naming him 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

Some sources [1] state that Jeter was named after 1970s Boston Bruins' hockey player Derek Sanderson, but this information is not confirmed by the biography on Jeter's site or any other conclusive source. (Derek Sanderson was traded from the Boston Bruins to the New York Rangers on June 12, 1974, two weeks before Derek Jeter was born.)
Favorite food is chicken parmigiana.
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, more than any other baseball player.
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. [2]
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
Career statistics from Baseball Reference
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

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 ==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's Yankees have been in the playoffs every year (winning the AL East Division all but once) and have won 6 American League Championships and 4 World Series Championships.  Jeter's teams have also won 17 of the 22 postseason series they've played in, and have compiled a remarkable overall postseason record of 72-38.  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 and ranks among the leaders in many postseason categories: 2nd in runs, 1st in hits, 2nd in total bases, 2nd in doubles, 7th in home runs, 6th in RBIs, 5th in walks, 1st in singles, and 6th in stolen bases.
+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 his eighth inning, game-tying faux home run against Baltimore in Game 1 of the 1996 ALCS (in which a 12-year-old fan reached over the wall to grab his fly ball), his shovel pass in Game 3 of the 2001 ALDS against Oakland which preserved a one-run Yankee lead, and his game-winning, tenth-inning home run off [[Arizona Diamondbacks|Arizona]]'s [[Byung-Hyun Kim]] in Game 4 of the 2001 World Series.   The home run briefly earned Jeter the moniker, "Mr. November," as it came 4 minutes after midnight on [[November 1]].  Due to the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], it was the first Major League game to be played in the month of November.  Jeter has hit above .300 in 15 of the 23 postseason series he's played in, including 5 of his last 7 (.500 in the 2002 ALDS, .429 in the 2003 ALDS, .346 in the 2003 World Series, .316 in the 2004 ALDS, .333 in the 2005 ALDS), further solidifying his reputation as a "clutch" player.
+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 Diamondbacks|Arizona]]'s [[Byung-Hyun Kim]] in Game 4 of the 2001 World Series.
-Uncharacteristically, Jeter struggled during the 2004 ALCS against Boston, batting only .200 in a series in which the Yankees would notably become the first team in MLB history to lose a best-of-seven series after taking a 3-games-to-nothing-lead.
-Jeter rebounded in the 2005 ALDS, where the Yankees battled the [[Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim]]. Though the Yankees lost in five games, Jeter hit .333 in the series and came up with timely hits in the decisive Game 5, including a late home run.
 ==Yankee captain==