Biography of Derek Jeter


Derek Jeter is a baseball player, was born on June 26, 1974 in Peiquuano, New Jersey. Most known as the player of the “New York Yankees” in the position of a shottop.

Derek Jeter played 15 games with the New York Yankees in 1995. The following year, he positioned himself as a shottop player for the team and soon became a star. The Yankees won four times the annual US baseball championship during the first five years of Jeter’s sporting career. He was appointed captain of the team in 2003, becoming the first captain after the departure of Don Mattingly in 1995. The pleasant appearance of Derek Jeter made him a favorite for young cheerleaders.

In the early 2000s he was often compared to other talented players of the shottop: Nomar Garciaparra, Alex Rodriguez. Jeter’s reputation was so high that when Rodriguez joined the Yankees in 2004, he began playing at third base, allowing Derek Jeter to remain on the shotstop.

Additional information: Jeter struck and threw with his right hand, wore uniform No. 2. Derek’s father is an African-American, a white-skinned mother, and the athlete himself received hereditary signs of an African, Irish, Indian, German. For the entire biography of Derek Jeter at the position of a shottop to the Yankees, the team won the US Championship in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000.


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Biography of Derek Jeter