After it was announced that we had chosen Derek Jeter to be elevated to the Hall of Fame, there was a routine meeting of the Baseball Writers Association, and there I was asked during a televised interview …:
“What do you think were the biggest numbers in Derek Jeter’s career?”
Due to the response, I saw the fellow interviewer frown. And it was because I told him …:
“There was something in his two decades with the Yankees, far greater than any number, more than 3,465 hits, 310 batting average, more than 210 home runs and 1,311 RBIs.”
And then I explained…:
“Jeter was the leader of the Yankees, who led them to 26 playoff series and seven World Series. He turned out to be such a brilliant bigleaguer that everything about him was superior to his numbers. Like being where no one had been, to amaze the world, by making plays that no one would have made. He gave much more for the team and for the baseball, than the baseball and the team gave him. A true out of series ”.
Now, as we are close to closing the first half of 2021, the remainder of the year is going to be a single party for Derek Jeter, his wife Hahnnah and their little daughters, Bella Raine and Story Gray.
Derek will be 47 in a few days, on Saturday this week, June 26; On July 9, he will celebrate the fifth anniversary of his marriage, Bodas de Madera, with his spectacular and famous model; on September 8, he will be elevated to the Cooperstown Hall of Fame; October 3 will be the last game of a horrible year for his Marlins, with the Phillies visiting Miami; and December 24 and 31, then, Christmas and New Years nights.
Along with Jeter, Larry Walker, Tedd Simmons and Marvin Miller will be elevated to Cooperstown.
Derek Jeter, one of the brightest Yankees in history, not only remained his entire career, 20 seasons (1995-2014), uniformed with blue stripes, but he had all his life dreamed of playing in the Major Leagues having Yankee Stadium in home club.
“In my bedroom as a kid, I taped a Yankees uniform to the wall, and I went everywhere in caps and jackets that bore the N and Y logos,” Jeter said.
The Yankees gave Jeter a $ 700,000 bonus after making him the fifth pick in the 1992 draft.
Nearly $ 300 million earned in total Jeter in his career
When Derek Jeter came to the Major League in 1996, the minimum salary was $ 130,000. It was what the Yankees paid him. But already the following year, the numbers changed notably, and multiplied by more than four, up to 550 thousand.
He signed the first millionaire contract for 1999, for five million. Already in 2000 it was mounted at 10 million and continued to rise, until in 2010 it achieved its best fees, 22 million 600 thousand dollars.
In his last campaign, 2014 they were 12 million. And in total, the Yankees paid him 265 million 159 thousand 364. And for the rights of souvenirs, photos in cards and commercial advertisements, he charged another 111 million 81 thousand dollars, for a total of 270 million 445 thousand. The biggest investment has been made by Jeter as a co-owner of the Marlins.
An abundant family in shortstops
Derek Jeter credits his parents for what he has accomplished.
Her dad, Charles Jeter, is a black sage, Western Michigan PhD psychologist, evangelical preacher, and volunteer drug counselor. In his college years, he was such an outstanding shortstop that one more team wanted to sign him. But it was a time of very low bonuses and he preferred to graduate.
His mother, Dorothy, and Charles, met in 1972 in Frankfurt, Germany, both in military service. Dorothy is a blonde of Irish descent, a native of Germany. After Frankfurt, he graduated in accounting and pedagogy.
They went to Tennessee and got married. After Derek in 1974, the beautiful girl, Sharlee, was born in 1979, who was famous as a shortstop for her high school and college girls’ softball team.
Sharlee said in an interview: “Many families go to have fun at the movies or the theater. We to the fields to play ball. Good formula to be together ”.
A TIP
- Astros did not sign it. The scout, Hal Newhouser, resigned from the Astros, for not signing Jeter, since they were the first choice.
- Who did they sign? The Astros signed outfielder Phil Nevin for $ 700,000, the same as the Yankees gave Jeter.
