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Along with Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte and Jorge Posada - all of whom hugged him along with Joe Torre after his walk-off Thursday night - he was a link to a time when the Yankees developed homegrown stars into World Series champions, before overpaying for talent in the Bronx came back into vogue. In New York they mourn the end of his career because Jeter was the last remnant from the Yankees’ Core Four. In one-run playoff games and mid-July blowouts, he stood on the top step of the dugout with the boyish exuberance of an 8-year-old with a baseball card collection and a mother who had just finishing passing out half-filled Dixie cups of Kool-Aid. Life didn’t imitate central casting Jeter imitated it. Jeter was a humble, 1950s Pleasantville kid with dimples playing in the social-media spotlight of 2014. He was a biracial Chip Hilton, Clair Bee’s fictional literary star. What the jaded fail to realize is Jeter wasn’t just Captain Clutch, winning five World Series with the Yankees, delivering that Disneyesque walk-off, game-winning RBI on Thursday night in his last at-bat at Yankee Stadium that still feels so surreal 48 hours later. He never once judged Alex Rodriguez, which made you realize even more why he wasn’t A-Rod.He dated some of the world’s most stunning and famous women, none of whom ended up telling Oprah what a bad person he was. Perhaps realizing even the best major league husband was still going to be away half the time, he remained Manhattan’s most eligible bachelor. In a tabloid town where everyone is eventually found out, Jeter never once detonated his personal life.During two decades of his peers putting syringes in their buttocks and special pills on their tongues, Jeter never once was connected to performing-enhancing drug use - not in a Mitchell report, not in a Jose Canseco tell-all book, not even in casual conversation among the game’s closest observers who might have had an inkling.In an era of increasing criminal behavior off the field in all sports, Jeter never once was in trouble with the law.
#YANKEE SHORTSTOP FULL#
It's full of cameos from celebrities and athletes tipping their hats to the baseball player. Nike is honoring retiring Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter with a tribute ad set to air during Tuesday's All-Star Game.