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Every springtime, Little Leaguers in the united states mimic his position and squabble over the right to wear his number, 2, the next number to be retired by the world's most well-known ball team. Derek Jeter is their hero. He walks in the footsteps of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, and someday his shadow will loom just as large. Yet he has never been the best player in baseball. In fact, he hasn't been the best player on his team. But his intangible sophistication and Jordanesque capability to learn big in the largest of postseason moments make him the facial skin of the present day Yankee dynasty, and of America's game. In The Captain, best-selling creator Ian O'Connor attracts on extensive confirming and unique access to Jeter that has spanned some 15 years to show how a biracial child from Michigan became New York's most precious sports shape and the enduring sign of the steroid-free athlete. O'Connor will take us behind the scenes of a renowned baseball life and career, from Jeter's early challenges in the modest leagues, when homesickness and problems in the field threatened a stillborn career, to his heady times as a Yankee superstar and prince of metropolis who squired some of the world's most beautiful women, to his anxious battles with ex - closest friend A-Rod. We also see Jeter struggling to come quickly to terms along with his declining skills and the declining favour of the one organization he ever wanted to play for, leading to a contentious agreement negotiation with the Yankees that still left people pondering if Jeter might end his career in a uniform without pinstripes. Derek Jeter's march toward the Hall of Fame has been dignified and certain, but behind that management and hero's sophistication there are invisible challenges and complexities which have never been explored, until now. As Jeter closes in on 3,000 visits, lots no Yankee has ever touched, The Captain provides an incisive, exhilarating, and disclosing new look at one of the game's best players in the gloaming of his career.
