Being a Jays fan I hate the Yankees, however, there are a few that I respect, Munson, Winfield, Mattingly, Gehrig, Ruth, DiMaggio and Mantle but there is one that IMHO is the best Mr Jeter. In a era where you could face up yo 7 or 8 pitchers a game I think that it is harder to play in this generation than the 20s or 30s where the pitcher would pitch the whole game and in the 7th inning he would have a noodle arm and you could pad your stats. Mr Jeter seemed to have a knack for the clutch performance, home run to get to 3000 hits, run scoring double to become the all time Yankee hit leader and for his last hit, a run scoring single.The most shocking stat to me is , with all the Yankee greats from the past, no one had ever hit 3000 hits not DiMaggio or Mantle...wow that says a lot! Now I know that there isn't enough space or time to acknowledge ever one of his clutch performances but nobody will forget his last game. Can anyone remember the final games of Roger Clemens? Of Barry Bonds?, Alex Rodriguez? Rodriguez, of course, hasn’t officially retired yet, one can only hope that he dose and soon.
So when the Yankees history is written, Jeter’s name will be in lights alongside those of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle. It’s pretty impressive company, but Jeter is an impressive player, and well deserving of every honour coming his way.
I never got to see Munson, Winfield, Mattingly, Gehrig, Ruth, DiMaggio or Mantle play but that's all right because I got to see another Yankee great play....several times, the greatest Yankee of them all IMHO and his name is Derek Jeter
So when the Yankees history is written, Jeter’s name will be in lights alongside those of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle. It’s pretty impressive company, but Jeter is an impressive player, and well deserving of every honour coming his way.
I never got to see Munson, Winfield, Mattingly, Gehrig, Ruth, DiMaggio or Mantle play but that's all right because I got to see another Yankee great play....several times, the greatest Yankee of them all IMHO and his name is Derek Jeter