“I’ve got the same seat as someone in the front row,” Derek Jeter says in the first installment of his ESPN documentary series.
“I want to compete. I want to play.”
After one episode of “The Captain,” it’s clear where the forme Yankees captain got his drive. Whether it was growing up biracial in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and learning the hard way about racism or spending summers with his die-hard Yankees fan grandmother in New Jersey, it was practically written as fate. Derek Sanderson Jeter was a different kind of hard worker.