{"id":1565557,"date":"2022-07-22T06:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565557"},"modified":"2022-07-22T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T10:35:24","slug":"espn-docuseries-the-captain-shows-derek-jeters-bumpy-road-to-star-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-docuseries-the-captain-shows-derek-jeters-bumpy-road-to-star-status\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Docuseries \u2018The Captain\u2019 Shows Derek Jeter\u2019s Bumpy Road To Star Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fespn-docuseries-the-captain-shows-derek-jeters-bumpy-road-to-star-status%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565557&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>For more than two decades in the 1990s and 2000s, Derek Jeter was a linchpin of the New York Yankees\u2019 renaissance. Now, ESPN is giving his career the documentary treatment, examining the larger-than-life figure behind the Bronx Bombers\u2019 resurgence with a seven-part series entitled \u201cThe Captain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his 20-year career based in the country\u2019s biggest media market, Jeter became a bona fide celebrity, not just in New York, but nationwide. \u201cThe Captain\u201d explores some of these moments, including an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2011\/12\/13\/jeter-gives-autograph-swag-to-one-night-stands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infamous rumor<\/a> about Jeter giving his dates \u201cgift baskets\u201d \u2014 an incident the star <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb-yankees-derek-jeter-finally-reveals-the-truth-about-legendary-gift-basket-story-143719233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uses the documentary<\/a> to refute publicly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jeter, like Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio before him, spent much of his career exuding effortless confidence on the field. But behind the suave appearances, the glitz, and the glamour came hours and hours of hard work to make the majors \u2014 not to mention the practice needed to keep one\u2019s skills sharp. \u201cThe Captain\u201d explores these under-examined sides of Jeter\u2019s career, to study the individual behind the myth and fame and all the effort that went into making those seemingly effortless plays.<\/p>\n<h2>Competitive Desire<\/h2>\n<p>Two themes stand out during the series\u2019 first episode, which focuses on Jeter\u2019s youth and path to the majors. Born in northern New Jersey, Jeter spent most of his childhood growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but return visits to his grandparents\u2019 house every summer sparked a deep love of Yankee baseball and a desire to play for the team at shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>Achieving that dream first required a level of competitiveness that Jeter received from his parents. Both Charles Jeter and his son recounted how the former wouldn\u2019t let the latter win at anything \u2014 not even when watching \u201cThe Price Is Right\u201d at home.<\/p>\n<p>His mother made \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d a four-letter word in the Jeter household, but success required not just determination, but effort. Friends from Michigan recounted how Jeter would spend cold, snowy winters holed up in a makeshift batting cage, putting in the practice that would eventually lead to not just the major leagues, but the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Overcoming the Odds<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>But reaching the pinnacle of success means overcoming adversity along the way. \u201cThe Captain\u201d recounts how Jeter, the high school player of the year as a senior in Kalamazoo, got passed over by several major league clubs in the 1992 draft. The first five clubs selected players from the collegiate ranks, a move that so infuriated longtime Houston Astros scout Hal Newhouser that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/10\/17\/sports\/baseball-what-can-we-do-next-just-watch-jeter-play.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prompted his resignation<\/a>, as he believed the Astros should have selected Jeter with the draft\u2019s first pick.<\/p>\n<p>But falling in the draft meant the Yankees could fulfill Jeter\u2019s childhood dream by selecting him with the sixth pick, and he repaid their faith in him \u2014 eventually. In the short term, Jeter had to reckon with a year of rookie ball in 1992 that saw him make 56 errors in a single season. In between games, he spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/12\/sports\/baseball\/12jeterteammates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$400 per month<\/a> on long-distance calls home, where he vented to his parents about the loneliness of life in the hot Gulf Coast League.<\/p>\n<p>In time, however, the player who began as a thin, even scrawny, shortstop built up his skillset and his confidence. Prior to the draft, Yankees scouts believed that growing up in a biracial household in 1970s Kalamazoo gave Jeter skills that he would later need to drown out critics. By the time the 1995 season rolled around, Jeter had made his big-league debut for the Yankees; while not yet an everyday player, he impressed scouts with his potential.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Building Blocks for a Dynasty<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Yankee team that joined in 1995 had as much potential as Jeter himself. During his time in the minors, Jeter had played with people like Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte, players who would make up some of the core of the Yankees for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>When Major League Baseball suspended Yankee owner George Steinbrenner from day-to-day operations of the team, general manager Gene Michael stockpiled prospects like Jeter, Posada, and Pettitte, creating the nucleus of what would become a baseball juggernaut. More adversity lay ahead, however, in the form of a heartbreaking loss to the Seattle Mariners in the Yankees\u2019 first playoff appearance in 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode of \u201cThe Captain\u201d concludes with a raw, but as yet unproven, Jeter accompanying the Yankees to (but not playing in) the stunning defeat in the 1995 playoffs. They did not know it at the time, but both Jeter and the Yankees lay on the cusp of baseball greatness.<\/p>\n<p><em>The next episode of \u201cThe Captain\u201d aired on ESPN on Thursday, July 21. 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