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Baseball Great Derek Jeter's Final Stop In Detroit Starts Tuesday Night

August 26, 2014, 10:31 AM

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is in Detroit for the last time as a player in the regular season for a three-game series with the Tigers that begins at Comerica Park on Tuesday night 

Now in his 20th and final season, Jeter is touring baseball’s stadiums in a transcontinental home-run trot with a six-month ovation, Joe Lapointe writes on MLive.

On the road, everybody gives gifts to the 40-year-old millionaire whose Tampa mansion is nicknamed “St. Jetersburg.” No doubt the Tigers will help him fill it...

Earlier this month, an official scorekeeper tried to award Jeter a hit to tie a Honus Wagner record (3,430 hits, sixth on the all-time list) but Major League Baseball reversed the decision, scored it an error, and briefly postponed Jeter’s milestone.

As he passes other historical reference points this season, Jeter’s name shows on the same lists with bronzed faces like those of Wagner, Mickey Mantle, Carl Yastrzemski, Al Kaline, Lou Gehrig and Henry Aaron..

Once enshrined in the Hall of Fame, Jeter  will be more than just an individual, Lapointe writes. Someday, baseball historians may speak of the Derek Jeter Era. He arrived right after the sport’s last strike canceled a World Series. He played through a steroid era without ever being linked to performance-enhancing or pleasure drugs.

Although known to squire beautiful women, they never seemed to kiss and tell in New York’s celebrity gossip fishbowl. He has cultural resonance. Jeter is the son of an interracial marriage and his career overlapped that of Barack Obama, the first biracial President of the United States.


Read more:  MLive


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