What is there to say about Derek Jeter that hasn’t already been said in other columns, television interviews or features?
On the field, he’s a five-time World Series champion, a 14-time American League All-Star, a five-time Gold Glover, won five Silver Sluggers (four straight from 2006-09), a member of the 3,000 hit club (“history with an exclamation mark,” as some would call the hit), and ended his career hitting .310/.377/.440 with 260 career home runs and 1,311 RBIs. As he would only have it, Jeter ended his career at Yankee Stadium with a walk-off single to right and walked off of the baseball diamond for the last time as a big league baseball player to a standing ovation by Red Sox Nation at Fenway Park in Boston.