Mr. 3,000

When thinking about baseball, people think of Americas past time and all the great players to play. When people think of the most successful franchise in all of history, they think about the Bronx Bombers. The New York Yankees have the most World Series wins out of everybody. There is not a team that is even fifteen World Series wins away from tying them. The Yankees have had some of the best players in the Major League Baseball association. For example; Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and of course the new face of the Yankees Derek Jeter.

I was born in Long Island, New York; my whole family was, besides my grandma who was from Boston. We moved down to Savannah, Georgia when I was three because it was too crowded. Ever since I could remember my whole family has been Yankee fans. My grandma on the other hand was a Red Sox fan which did not work out to well. My grandpa on the other hand had to like the New York Mets, because my grandma would not let him like the Yankees. The first player I ever knew when I was growing up was Derek Jeter. He was on my wall; I had shirts, hats, and gloves that had his name on it. If I could spend one day with anybody it would be God, which you should not idolize anyone but Him. If I had to choose someone on earth and a athlete I would choose Derek Jeter.

Derek Jeter just made history not too long ago by getting his 3,000th hit in his career. He will be a legend in Yankee history; he has been in New York his whole career and has stayed faithful to his team. The first thing I would like to do with Jeter is have breakfast and just talk baseball player to baseball player. I would ask him how he has stayed such a classical player, and been so successful in his career. Jeter is like one of the ol...

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...I really think this is why the Yankees have won so many World Series with Jeter as there captain.

It would be an honor to be around Jeter for a day just to see what it is like to be a big time player and people looking up to you. I have always been a true Jeter fan, my whole family has, and have been happy for all the World Series he has brought to the Yankees and hope for more to come. The Yankees would not be the same to me without Derek Jeter. When Jeter first became a Yankee the head coach at the time gave him number two and said “He will be one of the Yankee greats before he leaves this franchise.” All the great Yankees all had low numbers the only number left was two and Jeter filled it out just fine, and still has more to come. He will have his plate put in Yankee stadium, and his number retired when he is done playing baseball, which hopefully is not soon.