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SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. www.SportsPublishingInc.com
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1999 Sports Publishing Inc. All rights reserve.
Book design, editor: Susan M. McKinney Cover design: Scot Muncaster Photos: The Associated Press; page 18, Columbus Clippers.
ISBN: 1-58261-043-6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-61950
SPORTS PUBLISHING INC. SportsPublishingInc.com
Printed in the United States.
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Contents
1 Becoming a Star
1
2 Born to be a Yankee
15
3 Ready for the Majors
21
4 Winning a Job
30
5 Another Championship
51
6 Statistics
67
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After the Yankees' 1998 World Championship, Derek poured champagne on owner George Steinbrenner. (AP/Wide World Photos)
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Chapter One Becoming a Star
George Steinbrenner III, the principal owner of the New York Yankees, is no stranger to championships. In the 25 years he has run the Yankees, they have won six American League pennants and four World Series. He has made it clear over the years that even though he wants to win, when it comes to postchampionship celebrating, there shall be no spraying champagne on the owner.
In previous years, Steinbrenner was able to remain dry during such celebrations because players
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didn't want to risk making him mad. But after the Yankees won the World Series in 1998 to complete a record-setting season, Steinbrenner was drenched in the visitors clubhouse at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium.
It wasn't difficult to find the person responsible. Derek Jeter, the fun-loving shortstop, crept up behind Steinbrenner while he was being interviewed on television and poured a bottle over his boss's head.
"Yeah, I know who did it," Steinbrenner said. "It was that Jeter kid. He knows he's not supposed to, but he did it anyway. And, you know, he's the only one I'd let get away with it. The way he has played for me, he can do whatever he wants.'"
Derek's relationship with Steinbrenner is similar to his relationship with almost everybody, playful and respectful. In his first three seasons in the major leagues, Derek Jeter has become one of the
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game's most popular players. Fans both young and old have quickly come to recognize and appreciate Derek's ability.
Derek has been an integral part of a Yankees renaissance in the 1990s. He was born less than an hour away from Yankee Stadium, grew up dreaming of playing for the Yankees and turned that dream into reality by starring on two World Series championship Yankees teams before his 25th birthday.
It will be difficult for the Yankees to improve upon their 1998 season. Including postseason play, the Yankees won 125 games and lost just 50. Their 114 regular-season victories established an American League record and were only two shy of the major-league mark set by the Chicago Cubs in 1906. The Yankees swept the Texas Rangers in three games in the Division Series, defeated the Cleveland Indians, four games to two, in the American League Championship Series and capture the
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Derek has quickly become a star playing for the Yankees. (AP/Wide World Photos)
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World Series with a four-game sweep of the San Diego Padres.
As far as Derek is concerned, there is always room for improvement.
"There are still plenty of things I can do better" he said. "I could steal more bases. I could make fewer errors. I could strike out less. No one is perfect in baseball. A player can always do better."
That attitude has helped Derek stay on an even keel during his rise in the Yankees organization.
"Derek has a lot of exuberance, and it rubs off on the rest of our players," says Joe Torre, the Yankees' manager. "He has a lot of fun playing this game, and it shows. I've never been around anyone like him before. He's always upbeat, always looking at the positive side of things."
For the most part, Derek has handled himself professionally in the glass house of New York sports where reporters from eight daily newspapers and a
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