One of the fringe benefits of playing for the New York Yankees is that you get offered a number of endorsement deals as well as cameo roles on television shows and theatrical movie releases. Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Reggie Jackson, Mickey Mantle and others have made a number of appearances as themselves over the past six decades.
No Yankee, (and arguably no other Metropolitan athlete), has been as popular as Derek Jeter over the last 20 years. So, it makes sense that Jeter was a major media attraction during his playing days. In the big screen comedy, “The Other Guys“, policeman Mark Wahlberg has aspirations of becoming a big time detective…until he shoots Jeter.