On Saturday, July 9th, 2011, Yankees star Derek Jeter took Rays pitcher David Price deep into the left field stands, cementing his legacy and etching his name in baseball history.Jeter became the 28th hitter in history to achieve the monumental accomplishment of 3,000 hits, joining the likes of Roberto Clemente, Ricky Henderson, and Willie Mays.We won't see another player enter the ranks of the 3,000 hits club this year, but many veterans and fearsome hitters in their own rights could very possibly see hit 3,000 in the next few years. ...
In the third inning of Saturday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Derek Jeter became one of two players to hit a home run on his 3,000th hit. Wade Boggs is the other. He's the 28th player to reach the elusive 3,000 hit club. Jeter's the fourth youngest player to reach 3,000 hits. The three ahead of him...Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron and Robin Yount.Begin Slideshow
Derek Jeter has reached 3,000 hits by blasting a home run over the left field wall, becoming the 28th player to reach the milestone. The impressive fashion of the home run got me thinking: what are the coolest ways players have reached 3,000 hits?While most players have reached the milestone on a single or double, some players have done so in fashion.The following eight players have had the coolest ways of reaching 3,000 hits.Begin Slideshow
Derek Jeter got his 3,000th hit today, a home run in fact, and Christian Lopez was the man who caught it.Tickets to a potentially historic day at Yankee Stadium came courtesy of Lopez's girlfriend, and both her and his father accompanied the cell phone salesman to the ballpark earlier today not knowing that they'd be the ones with a piece of history in their possession.By the sixth inning of the game, Lopez was brought into the booth to speak with the YES Network announcers, and Lopez was basically star struck ...
Derek Jeter recorded his 3000 hit today in style, blasting a solo shot out of the park to tie the game up. The long awaited milestone finally culminated in Yankee Stadium in front of a packed house on a Saturday afternoon, which made it even more perfect. He entered elite company, becoming the 28th player to join the 3000 hit club. He finished the day 5 for 5 at the plate and drove in the game-winning run. The quest for 3000 took Jeter 16 seasons, all with the Yankees, ...
When it comes to seizing a moment, it’s hard to beat Derek Jeter. Criticism was swirling, calls mounting for him to be moved to eighth in the order in the midst of the chase for a historic milestone. But Saturday, Jeter did what he does best, captivate once again.It wasn’t so much about the game, a July afternoon contest between AL East foes pretty commonplace. This was Derek Jeter’s day.Booming chants of "DE-REK JE-TER," a Yankee Stadium crowd as frenzied as one come mid-October. A ...
We knew it was coming soon. Perched upon the precipice of history, on the verge of becoming the 28th player in the annals of Major League Baseball to reach the 3,000-hit milestone, Derek Jeter began the day with 2,998 career base-hits. With only two hits to go to join the exclusive club of baseball's all-time greats, it seemed a foregone conclusion for the Yankee captain, barring any unforeseen catastrophe that could derail the quest. After the chase was delayed by a three-week stint on the disabled list, Jeter resumed his pursuit of history ...
Yes, sir, let the praise begin. Derek Jeter just put every hater to shame. Every person that said for the past three weeks that the New York Yankees would be better off without Jeter was made to look foolish once again as they doubted him. We all knew the captain was a first-ballot Hall of Famer. It was without question. On July 8, 2011, he cemented his place as the greatest position player to ever grace the hallowed diamond. Period. That’s it. There is no argument against it. With the ...
As I sit here and write this, Derek Jeter just got another hit, and is 4-for-4 on this memorable day.Derek Jeter has had a lot of memorable days as a member of the New York Yankees.From captain of the team to "Captain Clutch," from the regular season to the postseason, the Michigan native has come through with clutch hit after clutch hit.With 3,004 possibilities, narrowing it down to 10 is no easy task.But let's take a crack at it, shall we?After the jump, the 10 most memorable hits of Derek ...
More than the Toy Story trilogy, Nickelodeon and perhaps Yankee Stadium itself, Derek Jeter was my childhood.As a New Yorker growing up in the late '90s and throughout the '00s, my sports fandom and the Yankee captain’s career are inexorably linked. He was my first connection to professional sports, the superhuman shortstop whose face adorned the walls of my bedroom, whose number was displayed on the back of my Little League jersey, whose patented “jump throw” was imitated to minimal degrees of success.Of course I was not alone. Jeter is ...