Just a Yankee. That's how Derek Jeter sums up his legacy. But as one of the game's greatest shortstops sits on the cusp of his Hall of Fame induction, baseball fans know he was much more than that.
Jeter, along with fellow inductees Ted Simmons and Larry Walker, met with the media Thursday in advance of Wednesday's Hall of Fame ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, the first since July 2019 after the 2020 festivities were wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic.
By the time the induction finally arrives, it will have been around 21 months since Simmons found out he had been tabbed by the veterans committee and about 20 months since Jeter and Walker were selected in the annual round of Baseball Writers' Association of America balloting.