MLB Profile: Derek Jeter - Everyone’s hero - Part-1
Consistency is considered the most vital part in every sport but there are few who managed to retain it throughout their careers, not only with their games but also with their reliability to earn the games for the club. Some gain consistency but remain helpless
in the crucial times and left the team under struggling, however there is one, who whenever landed the ground created something new and stunning for the club.
He has been in the Major League Baseball leader’s chart since the start of his career. Since he won Rookie of the Year award in 1996, his awards lists has increased two folds every year. He has won 12 All-Star selections, three times Player of the week award,
two Hank Aaron Awards, one MLB Player of the year award, one World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and bundles of other honour.
Who is he? Without any doubt, he is the emphatic hitter, gritty slugger and quick runner Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees. Born on June 26, 1974, a right-hander was the descendent of Ph.D. Sanders Charles Jeter and an accountant Dorothy, both from different
regions of the world. Sanders were African American while Dorothy was Irish German. As Saunders has been the part of the baseball team at Fisk University in his boyhood, so Jeter received baseball in his blood.
Having an inherited aptitude to perform in baseball, Jeter started earning limelight even in the start of his early childhood games. Although wherever he went he expressed his abilities to exhibit, but 1992 was the best year as he gained National fame scoring
.508 batting averages, with 23 RBIs and getting out only for one time. This year made him the High School Player of the Year decided by the American Baseball Coaches Association, Gatorade High school Player of the Year award and the most of all USA Today nominated
him as a High School Player of the Year.
His abilities were not hidden from the baseball experts, so the Baseball giants kept their eyes on the future star as even University of Michigan awarded him a scholarship to make him the part of their team. It let him decide about the professional career
and he signed $800,000 contract with the New York Yankees to play his first season with Gulf Coast League in 1992. He spent four years in Minor League and all of his years were dominating.
Jeter faced trouble even before the start of his Major League career. In 1995 he received an injury that let the Yankees to drop him from the shortstop position instead they signed Tony Fernandez to replace him. However, he never let his confidence and determination
down and once he made his Major League debut on May 29, 1995 due to injury to Fernandez. He failed to impress the Majors and demoted to Columbus but the Yankees manager showed confidence over young lad and announced Jeter as shortstop for the 1996 season.
He started his class in the very first game, hitting a beautiful homer and making quick moves at shortstop. He launched 10 homers, 104 runs and 78 RBIs to get his averages at .314 in the regular season and then posted .361 in the playoffs to help the Yankees
destroy the Atlanta Braves for their first World Series Win since 1978. On the same year, he became the part of the unusual event in the baseball’s modern history.
With 4-3 trailing score against the Baltimore Orioles, Jeter launched a fly high hit to right field and the right-fielder Tony Tarasco chased to wall and was about to reach the ball when a 12-year-old boy Jeffrey Maier caught the ball to make it home-run.
Continued in Part 2
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