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Well, how about that? For once in his charmed baseball life, things didn’t go absolutely perfectly for Derek Jeter.
Although, if any true justice existed in this universe, Jeffrey Maier would’ve been sitting in left field back on that magical 1996 night … and Jeter would be a unanimous Baseball Hall of Famer right now.
Good fortune gave Jeter an undeserved home run (to right field, you surely recall) back in Game 1 of the ’96 American League Championship Series. Bad logic deprived the beloved Yankees captain of matching his longtime teammate Mariano Rivera, who therefore remains the only man ever elected unanimously on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot.