The Jeterian Code
Midtown, 2008 A co-worker sent out an e-mail for an assignment yesterday, but added a twist. Next to each person on the list, attributed a saying, slogan or tall tale praising Derek Jeter, the joke being that Jeter is often…
Midtown, 2008 A co-worker sent out an e-mail for an assignment yesterday, but added a twist. Next to each person on the list, attributed a saying, slogan or tall tale praising Derek Jeter, the joke being that Jeter is often…
So now it looks like Derek Jeter‘s return to the Yankees lineup may be delayed, which would further delay his march to 3,000 hits and reduce the likelihood that he records the milestone hit against the Mets at Citi Field…
Late last night, Marty Noble put up a blog post reminiscing about crooner Johnny Maestro and hurler Doc Gooden, and it brought up some memories of my own that I didn’t include in my post about Gooden’s Nike billboard in…
I was kicking around Baseball-Reference‘s birth sites and, after some sorting, made a minor discovery: If Derek Jeter plays 150 games this season, he’ll have played more games in the majors than any other New Jersey-born player. <br>Report Created on…
I’m not buying the New York Post’s claim that Derek Jeter is getting married on Nov. 5 on Long Island. Let’s look at the Post’s reasoning: Someone saw the name Jeter — no first name — in the reservations book…
Derek Jeter tied Mickey Mantle on Sunday night for the most at-bats in Yankees history: 8,102. That minor milestone doesn’t really do much for me. Next year is when it will be interesting. To this point in his career, Jeter…
An article in The New Yorker this week (and last week, this being a well-deserved double issue) sorts out some misconceptions when it comes to famous quotations. Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Neither Ingrid Bergman nor anyone…
Four years ago, I covered the South Atlantic League All-Star Game in New Jersey, and that’s when I met David Wright. The Mets’ affiliate in the league was in Columbia, South Carolina, at the time, a team in the league’s…
The thing that strikes me about the Yankees’ signing of Johnny Damon is that they needed him. Not for leadoff, necessarily, because I think the Yanks are just fine with Derek Jeter batting first and Alex Rodriguez or Hideki Matsui…