Derek jeters personal biography
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Derek Jeter
American baseball player (born 1974)
Baseball player
| Derek Jeter | |
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Jeter in 2024 | |
| Shortstop | |
| Born: (1974-06-26) June 26, 1974 (age 50) Pequannock Township, New Jersey, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| May 29, 1995, for the New York Yankees | |
| September 28, 2014, for the New York Yankees | |
| Batting average | .310 |
| Hits | 3,465 |
| Home runs | 260 |
| Runs batted in | 1,311 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
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| Induction | 2020 |
| Vote | 99.7% (first ballot) |
Derek Sanderson Jeter (JEE-tər; born June 26, 1974), nicknamed "the Captain", is an American former professional baseballshortstop, businessman, and baseball executive. As a player, Jeter spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2020; he receive
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Derek Jeter
(1974-)
Who Is Derek Jeter?
New Jersey-born Derek Jeter was drafted by Major League Baseball's New York Yankees in 1992. He helped the Yankees defeat the Atlanta Braves to win the World Series in 1996, and cemented his place as one of the city's most popular athletes with World Series wins in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009. Named team captain in 2003, he became the Yankees' all-time hits leader in 2009, and ranked sixth in MLB history with 3,465 hits by the time he retired in 2014. Jeter went on to launch The Players' Tribune website and become part-owner of the Miami Marlins. He fell one vote short of unanimous election to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 2020.
Early Life and Career
Derek Sanderson Jeter was born on June 26, 1974, in Pequannock, New Jersey. The elder of two children of Dorothy, an accountant, and Charles, a substance-abuse counselor, he moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, at age 4 so his father could pursue a Ph.D. in psychology from Western Michigan University.
Lanky and athletic, Jeter was talented enough to play basketball at Kalamazoo Central High School, but he was determined to become a Major League Baseball player — specifically, the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees. He batted over .500 in his final two years of high school baseball, st
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