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Se presenta "El Capitán" por Capitol One.

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Derek: Recuerdo haber ido a día inaugural en la liga pequeña

y me encantó el día de la inauguración en liga pequeña

porque tenía un desfile.

Estoy seguro de que mis padres tenía fotos mías

estar muy orgulloso caminando por la calle.

Sentí como si estuviera haciendo algo importante

si hubiera más gente allí.

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[ Saludos y aplausos ]

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Soy un yanqui. Siempre seré un yanqui.

Eso es lo que hice. Eso es lo que soy.

Parada corta de los Yankees de Nueva York.

Me enorgullece mucho decir

es la única posición He jugado alguna vez.

Lo único Siempre quise hacer.

El único equipo Siempre quise jugar.

Simplemente tenía mucha confianza en quién era yo en el campo.

Cuanta más gente había allí, cuanto más lo disfruté.

Saqué lo mejor de mí.

Me sentí como si estuviera construido para tocar en Nueva York.

No había ningún plano para triunfar en Nueva York

durante 20 años. No lo hubo.

No pude volver atrás y lea cómo reservar.

Lo hice de la mejor manera Sabía cómo.

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Locutor: Ahora bateando para los Yankees.

Número 2, Derek Jeter.

Número 2.

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[Clic del obturador de la cámara]

¡Vamos, Jeter!

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[Proyector de películas haciendo clic]

Jeter: Para mí, todo comienza con la familia.

Ya sabes, era familia cuando era más joven.

Ahora es familia.

Mis padres me apoyaron mucho.

Ya sabes, incluso en el nivel de Grandes Ligas,

mis padres vendrían, Siempre lo sabré

dónde están sentados y la gente Creo que estoy en las gradas.

Estoy intentando encontrar a mis padres

porque me hizo cómodo, ¿sabes?

Y es casi como No pude empezar hasta que lo supe

dónde estaban.

And I was fortunate because,

you know, my parents were present.

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Man: Demonstrators took to the streets for a host of causes.

I was born and raised in New Jersey.

Dorothy: I was always like a protester on social issues my whole life.

I did protest the Vietnam War in high school.

When I got out of school, my dad wanted all us girls

to go to Catholic colleges.

I didn’t want to be a nurse.

A lot of my friends were drafted.

I said, "You know what? I think I’ll go

and get the GI Bill to pay for an education."

So that’s why I went to the service, really,

to show my dad I could do this on my own.

Dr. Charles: I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama,

raised by my mother and four sisters.

I played baseball when I was in high school

and didn’t give much thought to college,

and that didn’t sit too well with my sister, Fran.

Education meant a lot.

We didn’t curse in our family,

and my sister went off like I never heard.

She came up with some curse words I’d never heard before.

My mother allowed her to do that.

She let her go on and on and I got it,

and I ended up going to Fisk University.

Man: From these 40 acres, Fisk has been seeding

the land with his sons and daughters.

Dr. Charles: Well, Fisk helped to shape me.

You know, as a Black man, there’s something

about getting an education at Black college.

A lot of things were going on back then,

and I could be a part of it.

When I got out of college, the U.S. Army called my number.

Dorothy: I was stationed in Germany,

and of course I met Charles.

In Europe, people are different.

It’s who you are that matters.

It’s not what you look like.

When we came back to the States, different story.

A lot of people, "Do you know what you’re doing?"

"What? Are you crazy?" You know, that type of thing.

I don’t think anybody expected me to marry a Black man.

I’ll be honest, but I don’t think it was...

accepted.

When the kids were growing up,

It was tough because you want to shelter them as much as you can,

but you don’t want to smother them.

We brought both our children up to say

You can be anyone you want to be.

Don’t let anybody say you cannot do something.

That was a curse word in our house.

And that was something that we blocked early on.

You know, don’t come in here saying can’t,

it’s not allow.

Derek: There were positive.

You know, you can accomplish anything you put

your mind to as long as you work hard at it.

Sharlee: They taught us nothing is going to come easy

and nothing’s going to be for free

and not to want anything that came easy to us.

Like, you shouldn’t feel good about that.

Like, you should feel good about really working hard

and earning something.

Dr. Charles: When children are young, you start out

with that process of setting the bar high.

Let them know, first of all,

that they are as good or better than anybody.

Dorothy: Derek would be focused.

He were always, when really young,

wanted to be a baseball player, a baseball player.

As long as my mind will allow me to go back,

that was the dream.

I started playing baseball because,

you know, my dad played baseball.

He was shortstop at Fisk University.

He tells me all the time that he was much better,

much better defensive player than I was.

Dr. Charles: And I was pretty good.

I was a good field, no-hitter type of shortstop.

Derek: My dad never let me win a thing, nothing.

I mean, we’d be playing checkers.

"The Price is Right," Showcase Showdown.

before I went to a afternoon kindergarten class.

I just remember, I mean, how am I supposed to know

the price of a microwave?

Dr. Charles: And I’d take a great pride in

beating him on "The Price Is Right,"

and love that wave in way with my fist

like I really beat somebody.

That was the lesson he was teaching me

that life isn’t always fair.

You know, if you want something, you have to work at it.

You know, it’s not going to be given to you.

I think it’s borderline child abuse.

[ Laughs ]

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I became a Yankee fan because I used to spend every summer

at my grandparents house,

and my grandmother was a huge Yankee fan.

I remember being in her front yard

in full Yankee uniform

playing wiffle ball and breaking windows,

and she was okay with it.

My mom was a diehard Yankee fan.

My mom always tells us stories of her cutting out of school

going to Babe Ruth’s funeral.

Man: Fifth Consecutive world championship.

Man #2: Yankees are the champions.

World champions for the second year in a row.

Dorothy: She taught them all how to play baseball.

My brother would drive them to Yankee games.

Derek: That was family time for us.

You know, finding something that you love to do

and then finding a team that you love to root for.

That’s how we got a little bit closer over our love affair

with the New York Yankees.

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be shortstop

for the New York Yankees.

I looked up to all the Yankees, Donnie and Willie, Reggie.

I mean, all the Yankees, but Dave was my guy.

Man: 3-1 pitch to Winfield.

And deep to right center field.

Way back! Bye-bye!

Derek: Dave Winfield was my favorite player.

Drafted in all three sports, six foot six, larger than life.

Man: Winfield right on the money, and got him.

Dave Winfield, a perfect throw.

I was playing for the Yankees, and they came

to a game in Detroit

and they happened to be by the bus

as we were about to leave town.

I stopped and spoke briefly

and touched base with Derek and his dad.

You never know how a moment in time

just being the player I was, the person I was,

that one way or another, you’ve impacted their life.

Man: Winfield’s offensive exploits

and willingness to hustle on every play

has made him a fan favorite,

a favorite, that is, to every fan except George Steinbrenner.

Dave Winfield once again finds himself

doing combat with George Steinbrenner.

This is certainly no new story.

I was aware. Yeah, I was aware.

I didn’t want any details, so I never went out of my way

to try to find out what went on with the two

and I never asked either one of them.

Maybe it’s because I just don’t want to know.

Man: Dave Winfield becomes the highest paid

athlete in sports today.

There’s only one problem with making the most money.

When you’re harnessed up and you’re the team

that pulls the cart, your fanny sticks up the highest

and you feel the whip more often, right?

Man: That’s right. All eyes are on you.

You get whipped a little more often.

But you can handle it. You got a big fanny.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I can handle it.

Winfield: I do know what caused the issues

between George Steinbrenner and I.

I had to file a lawsuit

because they weren’t paying up the money

that was owed to me in my contract.

Man: The boss has been attacking Winfield ever since

his dismal 1981 World Series performance.

Man #2: Calling him Mr. May, and claiming

that he wasn’t a winner.

Sherman: When George decided you were an enemy, somebody to go after,

it never really left.

Like, he was relentless.

The kind of people who would get George’s ear consistently

might not be the finest churchgoing folk in the world.

Howard Spira is a name you’re going to be hearing a lot

over the next several months.

He received $40,000 from George Steinbrenner

in exchange for information on Dave Winfield.

I gave George all the information and all the dirt

that he needed to destroy Dave Winfield

and his reputation.

You know, his obsession with Winfield

ends up costing him the team.

Sterling: It is 1-0 Yankees. We’re in the top of the fourth.

I don’t know how to exactly report this

while doing a ball game, but I’m going to try.

Yankee owner George Steinbrenner had agreed to resign

as managing general partner of the club

for his dealings with gambler Howard Spira.

And that means that there will be someone new

to run the Yankees.

You’re hearing fans applaud the decision.

Isn’t this amazing?

[ Cheers and applause ]

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I thought I’d come down for a few moments to show you

that I am not remorseful.

I am not in shock.

Actually, I feel pretty good about things,

but our new general manager and vice president

will be Gene Michael.

I couldn’t be happier than I am with this man.

That decision that George makes on the way out

with Stick is a big deal.

Stick had a baseball savantism to him.

You know, you might not wanted to talk about politics

or current events with Gene Michael,

but Gene Michael could look at a baseball player

and know a lot about him.

Man, our team at Kal Central, and I say this respectfully,

we were not good at all.

Even our little league all-star teams.

You know, the dream was to go to the Little League World Series.

Now, we never even won a game in Little League All Stars.

Schwarz: There’s a skepticism against the cold weather

high school player.

How many talented players are you really playing against?

How many 92 mile an hour fastballs are you really facing?

Derek: You know, a lot of people laugh and say, you know,

no one from Kalamazoo was going to make it to the Major Leagues.

No one from Kalamazoo was going to play shortstop

for the New York Yankees.

And I’m, you know, you’re like, "Who the [bleep] are you?"

You know what I mean? You can’t do it.

You gonna tell me I can’t do it, you know?

Sorry, you can’t reach my dream, but I am.

And I’m going to do everything in my power to prove you wrong.

Some people don’t like when you say you can’t do something.

I love it personally because I’ll prove you wrong,

and I’m a big I-told-you-so person.

And when I see you, I’ll say I told you.

You know what I mean? That’s just how I’m wired.

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Hinga: He’s 15 years old.

He’s got a gold NY necklace that he wears.

He would tell you I’m going to be

the shortstop for the Yankees.

And it wasn’t bragging.

It was just matter of fact.

At the time, my impression was you’re crazy.

Dorothy: If he wants the dream, who am I?

Who am I to tell him you can’t be a baseball player?

When teachers or friends say,

"Hey, you got to feed these kids,

you know, realistic thoughts," like,

what the heck are you talking about?

Sharlee: Our parents instilled early on always

that we had to work harder.

So if all your friends have to do, you know,

two nights a week on their own,

then you’ve got to do it three or four times a week

to prove to your coach that you’re just as good.

Biro: We had to endure some cold, cold winters.

He had this contraption in his garage way where he hit the ball

and, you know, there’d be a net.

Be in there countless hours.

You know, if you if you got to his house

and he hadn’t finished that, you know,

you knew, hey, he’s gonna finish getting his reps in.

I’m hyper focused, man, and that’s on anything.

I set my mind to someone, and I’ll do anything

to make it happen.

"USA Today" every year would have the high school

all-American team.

And I would tell my parents, I said,

"I’m going to be on this one day."

Johnny Damon was the number one rated high school player.

I didn’t know Johnny, but his name now is in my head.

So it’s like, you know,

alright, well, I’m going to get up there where Johnny is.

I was always going to set a goal,

and I was going to set a goal high.

I didn’t want to be the best player in Kalamazoo,

didn’t want to be the best player in Michigan.

I wanted to be the best player in high school baseball,

and I was able to do it.

Man: Derek Jeter from Kalamazoo Central High School.

He’s another kid with a bright future,

says the scouts.

Derek: I always loved playing in front of people.

People, period. I don’t care if you were a scout

or you were just fan.

I felt like I was performing.

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And the more people, the better.

Gave me a chance to show off, right?

Everybody’s watching now.

Man: Scouts from 20 major league teams.

Morgan: I started writing about Derek

when he started getting national acclaim.

Totally impressed with all his physical and mental tools.

Well-rounded academically as well as athletically.

Phenomenal basketball player.

I mean, he certainly could have been a college player.

He could throw it up from anywhere.

There was never a shot that he didn’t like.

Man: Got it, got it, got it. Put a dagger on it, Derek.

Alright.

Morgan: He showed outstanding instincts,

and what we later saw to be grace at shortstop,

and he exuded that in a way that most kids don’t.

Man: We know that Derek has a lot of talent as far as baseball.

[ Crowd cheering ]

What a lot of people don’t know is that

Derek is a better person than he is a ballplayer.

"Covering Ground" is presented by T-Mobile.

The most important thing for me as a director

when I’m conducting interviews

was to make it feel conversational.

I knew that Derek Jeter was comfortable

was when I could see him on the chair.

He just had different body language

and his body was looser.

Could tell he trusted me and that he knew

that I wanted his truth and his perspective.

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Man: Going back [indistinct] don’t fall.

Oh, he dropped the ball.

Kay: It was rough times.

Man: A season better forgotten by the Yankees.

Kay: When George Steinbrenner was suspended,

you know, the organization was kind of in an abyss.

Man: He would be late getting to the ballpark.

Sherman: Mel Hall showed up in the clubhouse with two cougar cubs.

Pascal Perez decided not to show up for spring training.

He was playing dominoes in the Dominican

when they found him drinking a beer.

Williams: When I came on to the team in the early ’90s,

it was a tough environment.

I did feel a certain amount of, you know, tough love.

Players that have a profound impact,

one Mr. Don Mattingly.

He was one of my biggest advocates.

Kay: Man, did I look up to him.

I mean, he was our shining light.

He just carried himself the way you’d want

the face of your franchise to carry himself.

There were some lean years there for a little bit,

to say at the least.

But I think Stick in development,

you know, that dynamic changed a little bit.

Gene Michael held essentially every job you could hold

in the Yankees organization.

And the thing that I think Stick did as well

as anyone was evaluate talent.

This guy saw things that other people didn’t see.

Cashman: He was obviously assessing the five tool package

that you hear scouts typically talk of,

but then he’d go to that sixth arena --

makeup and competitive nature and intellect.

Ability to focus and concentrate was a big word

he would always use, was the word concentrate.

With George Steinbrenner being suspended by baseball

for a couple of years, So his hands were out, right?

His dirty hands were out of the pie.

So now they’re drafting guys like Bernie,

Mariano, Pettitte, Posada

and they’re stockpiling this young talent,

which, you know, George wouldn’t have wanted to do.

He wanted to, you know, he would want to get big stars

from other teams right away and make us winners again.

And you had two figures the top of those chains,

Gene Michael knew how to acquire talent,

Buck Showalter knew how to mold talent.

Showalter: Stick was so far ahead of his time.

We had so many guys that got it.

They could see it in a player.

And with Derek, I heard a lot of people talk

and I’d watch some tape and I’d seen reports.

I loved all the peripheral stuff about him.

I remember how impressed I was with his mom and dad, you know,

and knowing the backbone, they both had to have.

You know, an interracial marriage.

And I was going, okay, there’s so many things

that challenge guys in the big leagues

and so many things that challenged in the New York City.

I felt that Derek had a chance to really not have

that be a factor in his life because of his upbringing.

Okay, if we’re ready to go then

with the first round, 1992 draft.

Olney: The Yankees looked at Derek as being clearly,

you know, one of the best players in the draft.

And at the outset of that draft, there wasn’t a lot of hope

in their eyes that he was going to fall to them.

[ Indistinct conversation ]

Derek: Back then, things were different.

It’s not televised, it’s not a big deal.

You get a phone call.

I told all of my friends and relatives don’t call

at this certain period of time because I hope to get a call.

I was supposed, right?

Supposed to be drafted first or fifth is what I was told.

The Houston Astros have the number one pick.

A scout who covered that area was Hal Newhouser,

a very respected scout.

Hal Newhouser was a two-time MVP, 1944 and 45.

Cal Newhouser told the Astros Derek Jeter

is going to be the centerpiece of championship teams

for years to come.

Man #1: Houston selects Nevin, Phillip, J.,

a third baseman from Cal State University in Fullerton.

Man #2: First pick is to Houston.

It’s Phillip J. Nevin.

Olney: Hal said If I can’t convince that team

to take Derek Jeter,

I can’t convince anybody of anything.

And so after about 50 years in baseball,

he just decided to retire.

Man #2: Cleveland.

Cleveland selected Shuey, right-handed pitcher

from University of North Carolina.

Montreal.

Montreal selects Billy Wallace,

left-handed pitcher, Mississippi State University.

Baltimore.

Baltimore selects Hammonds, Jeffrey, B.,

Stanford University.

Jeffrey B Hammonds.

Sherman: They get to number five, it’s the Cincinnati Reds.

Gene Bennett had scouted that area.

He sees Jeter. He’s like, this is perfect.

This is Barry Larkin 2.

Jean Bennett believes to the day of the draft

they’re going to take him.

Man #2: Cincinnati.

Cincinnati selects Mottola, M-O-T-T-O-L-A, Charles Edward,

outfield, University of Central Florida.

Charles E. Mottola.

At the same exact time, the Yankee draft room

explodes in cheers.

The teams were picking college players

instead of going for Derek as the top high school player.

I called the house.

Derek: I got a phone call from Paul Morgan,

and he said, well, the first five picks have been announced

and my heart just sunk.

Because I’m like, I’m supposed to go first to fifth.

And I hung up the phone and I went in the bathroom.

I had no idea. Honestly, I had no idea

the Yankees even drafted sixth.

New York Yankees.

Yankees select Jeter, shortstop,

Central High School, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Jeter, J-E-T-E-R.

Yankee selection is Derek Jeter, shortstop,

Central High School in Kalamazoo.

Dorothy: I picked up the phone.

Of course I act stupid.

Derek, it’s the New York Yankees. It’s the Yankees.

You know, and I don’t know what I was doing.

Dorothy: The Yankees.

The Yankees, Sharlee, the Yankees.

Sharlee: The Yankees?

[ Laughing ] You know, because that was his dream team.

The Yankees.

That’s his dream team.

♪

Okay, that would be great. Could you hold on a second?

The Yankees. How you doing?

The Yankees. Thank you, thank you.

Yeah, I mean it, you know, it’s tough

sitting around waiting for phone calls, so...

Uh-huh.

Sharlee: I remember I had come home from school,

and then I had taken a nap,

just had fallen asleep and then got up.

So it was like kind of like almost, like, being in a --

in a dream state.

It shocked all of us.

All growing up, all I saw him in

was Yankee hats and Yankee jackets.

That’s all he wore out.

I’m proud of you. I’m proud.

New York Yankees, that’s the team, man.

Ahh! Man, I’m proud of you.

I am really -- Hey, you deserve it.

You deserve it. Alright.

Man: Derek Jeter turned 18 years old

just after he graduated from high school.

This afternoon, the Yankees worked him out at the stadium

with his mom and dad looking on.

Derek Jeter, the sixth player selected

in this year’s amateur draft,

fielded ground balls at shortstop.

I don’t think I’ve really realized it yet.

When I get home, I’ll sit down and said, "Wow."

Man: Then he met some of the New York press.

When I asked Derek Jeter when he thought he’d make it

to the big leagues as he posed with the bat,

he said, I’ll be here in three years.

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ter I signed,

you walk in, everybody’s looking at you

because you’re the number one pick,

got this huge signing bonus.

It’s 125 degrees down there.

I’m already 155 pounds, probably losing more weight.

Sprained my ankle, I got this ankle brace on, man.

I look all jacked up, and I’m playing terrible.

You struggle, and you’re like, Man, oh [bleep]

I don’t know if I can do this. You know?

Those are real thoughts are going through your head.

I made a big mistake here, like a big mistake.

I was completely overmatched.

There’s no way to sugarcoat it.

I cried every day.

I couldn’t compete.

You start to doubt yourself.

"Should I have gone to school?"

Called my parents, "Can I give the money back?"

You know?

They’re like, "No, you’re not giving that money back."

Dr. Charles: As parent, you always know when you get those phone calls.

You know, when things went well, you didn’t get any.

You know about when things don’t go well,

you get those phone calls, and that one night

his mother was really down to it.

"Baby, you can come home."

I’m saying, "Dot, do not say that."

[ Laughs ] Do not say that.

Derek: I actually got promoted at the end of the year

to go to Greensborough, our low A-ball affiliate.

The only reason I got promoted

was because they had two more weeks of games

and they wanted me to continue to play.

And I cried when I got promoted.

I didn’t want to go. I wanted to go home.

Posada: You know, I was hating. I was hating.

Here comes the first pick. Walks inside the clubhouse.

There’s just this lean, lean kid.

Six, three, where he’s hat up with his hair in the front.

I mean, you know, I was just hating.

I remember he came in and first game, you know,

made a couple of areas and I was like,

"Man, you know, who is this? Who is this guy?"

Derek: First time I met Andy, I go to Greensboro

and his locker happened to be next to mine.

And sitting there, I don’t know what to say.

I’m the new guy, right? I looked at him and I was like,

"You know what? You remind me of my uncle.

You look a little bit like my uncle."

He just looked at me, turned back around

and didn’t say anything.

I don’t really remember it

as good as apparently he does, but he tells me --

he tells me I kind of big leagued him.

I just kept it moving. [ Laughing ] I kept it moving.

It was a tough period, and I wanted to go home.

Kalamazoo is a wonderfully diverse community.

♪ In Kalamazoo ♪

Basically Midwestern values in Kalamazoo go hand in hand.

♪ Kalamazoo ♪

What I always think of is the old work hard

and good things happen, and people work hard here.

It’s really a good, basic Midwestern city.

♪

Derek: I had just come back to Kalamazoo.

Me and a friend of mine had gone to Taco Bell.

Walking back to the car,

his car pulled up next to me, and then somebody said,

"Take your car home to your parents."

And he called me the "N" word.

And I remember, man, being so hurt by that

because, you know, I’m so proud, I’m back in Kalamazoo, right?

Finally made it, got drafted.

And you’re like, man, you know, this is a reality check.

Dorothy: Kalamazoo.

Good Lord, have mercy.

Charles told me we were going to be there for two years

to get his master’s degree,

and we were there for 20 something years.

But I always wanted to go home.

When Charles was a student, trying to move from, like,

family housing at the university to a better apartment.

So we went to this place together,

and all of a sudden there was no room in the inn.

A friend of mine said, "No, no, I just called.

There’s availability. Go by yourself."

So I went, they never checked, we got in.

Sharlee: I know things that she went through when she first

started working at a corporate job,

not being able to put her family photo out,

being asked to take it down,

people not accepting her family.

It’s much different now.

It’s come a long way, but what I remember of it

was just a very small town.

In the Midwest, Racism can come in many forms.

Some places you go and it’s obvious,

it’s in your face.

Midwestern racism, it’s so subtle.

Housing discrimination.

I’ll hire you, but I’m not going to pay you well.

You know, my kid can be cool with you,

but you can’t come over our house.

Dr. Charles: Young people are very observant of things

when they are with their parents and they go into a place

why people, everybody is staring at them,

and they understand what’s going on there.

Derek: You know, when I’m out and about,

I’m constantly looking around, and someone said to me,

"Why are you always looking around?

You know, you always seem like you’re not focused,

you’re not paying attention."

And I just thought back to I always,

since I was very young,

I had so many people staring at me, right?

So I would always be looking to see who’s who was looking at me.

I was the one they’d be like, "Who are you looking at?

You’re rude." Like, stop looking at us.

Derek: My parents did a great job of setting us down

and saying, look, you’re going to get looks.

People are going to treat you different.

You’re going to deal with racism.

You’re going to deal with prejudice.

You’re a Black man, and same thing to my sister.

You’re a Black woman.

You know, people of color understand it.

They prepared us. You’re going to deal with some things.

But you learn how to deal with it.

Man: Derek Jeter learned a valuable lesson over the past 12 months.

It’s called reality.

When the Yankees drafted him, it was a dream come true.

But then reality struck, and it hit him like a ton of bricks.

I hated the last year. Last year was terrible for me.

Rookie league was -- was terrible.

I was homesick. I wasn’t playing good.

It was just as bad as it could get.

[ Cheers and applause ]

The man New York Yankee fans love to hate is back.

George Steinbrenner returned to the Yankees today

after a two and a half year suspension

for hanging around with an admitted gambler.

Steinbrenner says he’s a new man,

that he’ll be more patient with his players now.

Meet the new boss, maybe not the same as the old boss.

Olney: When George returns, he was still a tyrant

behind the scenes at times, but I think the Gene Michael

learned how to manage George

and keep the Yankees moving along in a way

that they weren’t able to in the ’80s.

Showalter: I would have gone through the wall for Stick.

The backbone he would show about standing up

for what’s right when he knew it was right,

that vision to project things down the road.

Staying the course with them, that’s hard.

Derek and all these guys weren’t good

right out the shoot.

Derek: For the first time in my baseball career,

I was at shortstop saying, "Please don’t hit it to me."

And then, sure enough, they hit to you

and I made another error.

[Bleep] hard, man.

And I believed in myself,

but you still don’t know till you’re in it.

I was completely overmatched.

You have to learn to deal with failure

because it’s something I never dealt with before.

Sherman: For the first time in his life, he’s struggling as an athlete.

He’s not fielding well. He’s not hitting well.

Derek Jeter made 50 some errors his first year in A ball.

56 errors I think it was.

56 errors, man?

Damn, that’s hard to do.

Intentionally, that’s hard to do.

I remember calling Brian Butterfield,

the infield guy there.

I go, "Brian, can this guy play shortstop?"

And once in a while, you know, you go home and you go,

"You know, this is my job and my credibility.

Stick, are we right about this? You know.

"Ah, yeah, I am. I go, "Okay."

You know, we talk about proving people wrong,

but this is the time where you have to prove it

to yourself first.

And I had to prove to myself that I can be consistent.

Forces you to grow up quick.

It forces you to look in the mirror and say, hey, man,

am I cut out to do this? Am I willing to put in the work?

Am I willing to put in the sacrifice?

But it test you.

Gerald: It was hard for him to make friends

based on where he was drafted.

People had a lot of jealousy, and it was difficult for him

to trust people in that -- in that setting.

We decided to just go out, taking a dinner

and just make sure he stays

with his work ethic and all of those things,

because those were things that he was always willing to do.

Being a number one pick, you couldn’t ask

for anything better, but that’s all over and done.

Now I’m here, and I’m in the same position as everyone else.

I’ve got to put up numbers and I got to show

I can play at higher levels and move up.

They’re not just going to move me because

I’m the number one pick.

If you’ve ever spent any time with him,

you know, he’s mature beyond his years.

And that came from his parents.

He was so young, but yet so prepared.

It was just a matter of gaining the experience

to be able to work on his craft.

Mattingly: I feel like I had a unique seat to watch Derek

because I seen him come to camp right out of high school

and then seeing him the following year

and then the following year after that, and it’s like,

ooh, this dude’s picking it up right quick.

I remember being in Fort Lauderdale.

There’s two backfields,

and I don’t know how we ended up back there together,

and it just seemed like it was me and him

and it was getting late.

You know, we were kind of standing there, and the Yankee

way is like you’re always kind of moving,

you don’t ever just walk.

And there’s no one there because the team’s not playing there.

We get to the edge of the outfield

and Donnie looks at me and says,

"Hey, we better run because you never know who’s watching."

Then that could be fans. That could be kids, right?

I’ve heard some DiMaggio stories about, you know,

how you want to play great every day

because he never knows who’s seeing it for the first time.

But also, there’s a box with a blacked out window

up there that held Mr. Steinbrenner.

You couldn’t see if he was up there or not.

I’m like, probably around. You never know who’s watching.

Kay: When George was away for two years,

that allowed Gene Michael to operate

without any kind of pressure.

But I don’t know if they take the step to championship level

if George doesn’t return, because I think George added

something in terms of the urgency.

Man: He swings and belts it deep right field. It is gone.

’94 things came together for the Yankees really well.

♪ The world is yours ♪

♪ It’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine ♪

♪ Who’s world is this? ♪

I think that team was destined

to go to the World Series.

In 1994, New York Sports is all about

the Knicks making their run to the NBA finals

and Rangers are winning a Stanley Cup.

While all that is happening,

there is a kid in the Yankees system

who is blowing through the minor leagues.

Man: Derek Jeter, just up from double-A, Albany,

and ricochets all the way to left field.

Now Jeter is going to go for two,

and he will be in there.

Derek: ’94 it just all came together.

Once you have some level of success,

confidence level goes through the roof.

Jackson: I never saw Derek that much in the minor leagues.

I would go to see Derek Jeter,

and when I got there, they’d say,

Oh, he’s moved up to the next team.

You know, it was like looking at a thoroughbred horse

that had been brought up in the blue grass of Kentucky.

He had the right stuff.

Man: Jeter drives this ball left field.

This ball is way back,

and that’s why he’s running through the Yankee farm system.

We think he’s a real fine talent, there’s no question.

Murti: The end of 1994, Derek Jeter

is the minor league player of the year.

-Ball right. -Look at the lead.

Mattingly: In ’94, you can see it, man.

We’re there, We’re playing.

And then the strike happens.

Man: The remainder of the 1994 baseball season

has been canceled, and baseball’s darkest moments.

There’ll be no fall classic, no autumn magic.

Say it ain’t so, but we know its’ so.

Showalter: You know how you can remember when certain things

where you were when it happened?

I can remember when I saw Bud Selig say the season’s off.

I could not believe that we were actually going to do this.

Like a lot of things in life, you anticipate something

and fear that it’s coming.

There’s an incredible Amount of sadness.

Showalter: That tore your heart out, because you knew

you had that chance, and we had it going on.

Michael: We had a nice ball club, but I think

we’re good enough to win.

I don’t know that we would have. It’ll be sad.

Even 20 years from now when we look back,

they’ll say that the Yankees had a nice team

but they didn’t win anything.

Ooh, all this for you? You must be a pretty big deal.

[ Laughs ]

How are you?

Good.

My name’s Melba.

I forgot my question. That’s okay.

Is your name "Jee-ter" or "Jet-ter"?

Uh, it’s "Jee-ter."

Why do baseball players wear so much jewelry?

Maybe ’cause they like to show off sometimes.

[ Chuckles ] Yeah.

If you were ice cream, what flavor would you be?

Cookies and cream. Me too!

Yeah, yeah.

Well, we have a connection.

We do have a connection. I like that.

Nice meeting you, Derek Jeter.

Nice to meet you.

Okay, I’ll help you down. Oh, there you go.

Thank you. Bye. Bye.

Good evening.

The clubs are delighted to announce we have accepted

the union’s unconditional offer to return to work.

Announcer: Rip to Tony Fernandez, who drops it?

And Tony may be hurt.

And that’s the throwing hand.

Derek: In ’95, my name was circulating in a lot of trade rumors,

and I got a phone call from my manager, Billy Evers,

early in the morning, and he says to me, "Are you up?"

I said, "No, I’m not up." He said,

"Well, splash water on your face and come to your room."

I thought I was being traded.

He came and knocked on my room, He said, "Congratulations.

You’re going to the big leagues."

And I’ll never forget that feeling.

I mean, I’m going to Seattle

I ain’t never been to Seattle before.

Man: This could be a very meaningful day in New York Yankees history

because the minor league player of the year, Derek Jeter,

will make his debut today for the Yankees at shortstop.

Could be a memorable day.

I mean, Yankee fans remember

Mickey Mantle broke in at age 19.

It’s unbelievable. You know, really, it is.

You sit up there and you see your son out there

and you feel proud, you know, a little teary eyed.

Yankees are awfully high on that 20-year-old.

He doesn’t look as big as he was listed, 175.

He takes the curve ball, Fermin is there.

The toss to Martinez this time. Two down.

Dr. Charles: He didn’t have a great game, you know?

But it didn’t make any difference.

And spend some time with him after,

walking around like crazy looking for a restaurant,

and looked like every place we went it was closed.

And then we end up at McDonald’s sitting down there eating,

just talking.

That was my first big league meal

was eating at McDonald’s.

I’m sure we talked about the game,

and I think he 0-5 at night, you know?

[ Chuckles ]

I don’t remember verbatim, but I know

he talked about not being too happy about that.

You know, I went, 0-5

And you worried about, man, am they going to send me down?

Man: Here’s the kid, Derek Jeter, hunting

for his first Major League hit.

And sends a base hit into left,

And now took that ball back in the Yankee dugout.

he and Alex Rodriguez and ought to have fun

playing against each other

at shortstop for years, and years.

Derek: I got my first hit, and Tino was there.

He got the first base. I just congratulations.

Many, many more to come.

Man: I’m sure that will be first of a lot of hits

for that brilliant young infielder.

♪

As of Friday, a rash of baseball trades

as the deadline approaches. Yes.

And the Coneheads in New York will be very happy about this.

Cone and Sierra will join the Yankees Saturday.

I’m going to be a conehead. I’m going to be a conehead.

Showalter: We just went out and got David Cone.

Kind of fired, a little salvo in the clubhouse.

Hey, we’re going for this. Are you?

Are you going to be part of it? Let’s go.

♪ Look in my eyes ♪

When I joined them, they were -- they were struggling.

I was so ready to be traded to the Yankees.

I wanted it so badly at that point in my career.

There’s something about New York that gets in your blood,

and those six years with the Mets,

you know, I missed it, I missed that stimulation,

the excitement.

Man: Now the 1-2.

Called over the inside corner.

Cone: Got off to a great start.

The team started to turn it around.

There was also kind of a rallying cry.

One of the best players in the game

had never been in postseason, Don Mattingly.

Announcer: Fly ball deep to right field,

and Mattingly can still do it, Kenny.

Mattingly: I knew it was my last year, you know,

99 percent sure this is it for me.

And I’m like, "Dude, we got to win every day."

And I remember just talk about [bleep] like every day.

-We’ve got to win every day, every day.

Announcer: The fans love it here at the yard,

and he is the captain of the Yankees.

Cone: It was intense.

We had an incredible run down the stretch,

and we knew that that was the first year of the wild card,

so we had another avenue to make the playoffs.

Derek: Yankees hadn’t been in postseason a long time,

and every game was meaningful.

So we’re there, but we didn’t play.

We were fans sitting in the dugout to tell the truth.

Derek: Robbie caught a backhand up the middle,

throw it behind his back.

Announcer: Behind the back for the force.

We jumping like, "Oh!" And then we look

and everybody’s looking at us,

and we slowly but surely sat back down,

didn’t say a word the rest of the game.

I only had one at bat.

I hit double in my only at bat in September.

Announcer: Jeter sends toward the gap

deep to right field. Going back, going back.

Derek Jeter making the most of this chance.

We’re like, "Hey, no, wait. Wait a minute.

Leave that kid in the game a little.

I want to see a little bit more of him now."

That was my first impression. Ah, I don’t take him out.

Announcer: Randy hits it to Fernandez.

He goes to second for the force, and the New York Yankees

have won the 1995 first ever wildcard.

Announcer: And for the 35th time in baseball history,

Yankee Stadium will play host to a postseason game.

The 1995 division series feature these...

Jeter was not on the active roster in ’95,

but he was uniform.

Derek, For me as a player, it helped to actually be there

on the bench during the ’95 postseason,

even though I couldn’t play just to see the atmosphere.

Announcer: They have full house here at Yankee Stadium.

Showalter: I told him, I said, listen, "If I hear you guys

are running the streets here in New York,

you’re going to take your ass back to instruction league."

Derek told me later they didn’t leave

the hotel room for two weeks.

They loved it so much they didn’t want to mess it up.

A lot of people tell you that’s a lie.

Say they never heard Yankee Stadium,

the most emotion in a stadium.

Can’t top it.

Mattingly: The energy in that building was incredible.

I can’t even explain how good that felt,

like, running onto the field.

You know, I actually felt fast running.

And if anybody just watch replay,

I’m not fast.

Knowing that this is it,

and it was like just lay it out there.

Announcer: 3-1, Mattingly.

Base hit, right field.

Yankees take the lead.

Mattingly: I know Derek was -- I don’t think he’s on that roster,

but I know he was there.

You know, if you don’t get something out of that group

in ’95 and with that fight,

it’s the best kind of baseball you could ever play.

Announcer: 2-1, Sierra deep right field!

Wave that goodbye!

Two strikes, two down, two on.

Struck him out. Yankees win.

Derek Jeter is 21 years old.

He’s had a couple of cups of coffee in the Major Leagues.

As guys scoring stuff, Jeter is up.

Announcer: This one by Mattingly.

Oh, hang on to the roof!

Goodbye! Homerun, Don Mattingly.

Sherman: Congratulating guys as they come on the bench

like he’s in the front of the line.

Announcer: 2-1. Oh, yeah, tie game.

Paul O’Neill. Goodbye into the night of New York.

If it’s any better than this,

I don’t know where you have to go to.

2-1, Ruben Sierra.

Swung on, left field. Diaz, back, back.

At the wall, Diaz looking. Off the top off the wall.

One run in, Yankees can win in.

Relay throw coming, bottom of the plate

And they got him!

It’s tied up! The game is tied!

And the bottom half of the 15th minute.

Rain continues to fall here in Yankee Stadium.

Fly ball right field. Maybe, it could be.

Back of the wall!

Goodbye, homerun! The Yankees win!

Jim Leyritz a two-run homer in the 15th inning.

Yankees 7 -5.

Gerald: I thought we were going to win the series when we were up 2-0.

And it never occurred to me that we would lose.

Martinez: And I remember Lou Piniella that night,

walk through the plane and just smiling.

And, you know, he’s saying, hey, guys, great games, great games.

You know, stay with it. We’re going to get him.

Announcer: And now it’s high noon for the Yankees hired gun.

Cone: Game 5 was as intense a game as I’ve ever been a part of.

Announcer: No one wants to go to Cleveland

any more than George Steinbrenner.

Announcer: If they lose.

It could be devastating. There could be a lot of changes

on that ballclub.

Cone: Stakes that were on the line,

you feel the weight of the world on your shoulders.

Announcer: Captain Don Mattingly with the bases loaded.

Slaps one into left field down into that corner.

It’s fair, and the Yankees will score.

Yankees lead it by two.

♪

Deep to right field! Oh, baby!

Put it on the scoreboard.

The kid has done it again.

Yankees up by one, and the bases are loaded.

A tiring Cone trying to hang on.

And now we’re tied.

Cone: I walked in the tying run.

Buck Showalter took me out of that game.

The first guy to greet me was Derek Jeter, of all people.

And I kind of blew him off, I think.

Yeah, yeah, whatever, kid, you know.

And I walked straight to the clubhouse.

I grabbed a white towel.

Like a 12-year-old little leaguer,

I buried my face in the towel and bawled my eyes out.

At that point, you’re at the mercy

of the rest of the game.

Announcer: On to the 11th inning.

Base hit. Kelly coming around

He’s going to score? Yankees lead it now.

The Yankees three outs away from Cleveland.

It is up to McDowell.

Tying run on third base, to Martinez.

Line drive! We are tied.

Griffey is coming around.

He’s gonna try to score.

Mariners win it! Mariners win it!

Gerald: It’s just one of those gut punches.

The feeling is going to stay with you forever,

and it’s not a good one when you lose.

Randolph: As I was coming off the field, remember walking on the bench

and Derek was like, totally pissed off.

Even though he didn’t play in the game, it’s almost like,

okay, alright, alright.

This is what it feels like. This is what it’s like.

It’s almost like I don’t want to have that feeling ever again.

Derek: I mean, I ain’t fun watching.

I enjoy myself watching.

It’s a great seat, but I had

the same view as everyone in the front row.

I want to play. I want to compete.

Cone: I’ve never been around a more devastated clubhouse.

People were crying, literally. Grown men were crying.

You couldn’t have a worse plane ride.

Jack McDowell And I was just drowning our sorrows.

I think we had a bottle of whiskey.

Don Mattingly came down nuzzled in between both of us

and put his arms around us and said,

"Thank you. Thank you for at least getting me there.

I finally can say I got a taste of it.

I know I’m probably not trying to play again, so I mean,

you think about that, your, kind of,

your career is over.

At that point, ends in a bad way.

You grow from pain.

For me, that was so pure of a group that played hard

and wanted to win so bad, that if you didn’t see that,

like you weren’t getting anything from it.

And I’m glad that some of our young players

were here who didn’t get to play,

but I brought them along on the trip

just so they can experience the thrill of what it’s like.

Derek: Seeing it prepared me for the next year.

That’s when my mind went. Okay, how am I going to help us?

Man: What’s the fate of Buck Showalter?

What’s the fate of Gene Michael? Can you address those?

It’s difficult to address that now.

I mean, this -- this is a very difficult time.

Everybody is very down,

and I’m not even going to talk about that.

We’ll start looking at everything tomorrow.

Showalter: Mr. Steinbrenner wanted to fire four of my coaches,

and I couldn’t keep my credibility

and my respect in the clubhouse with the players

if I allowed him to get rid of four coaches.

You know, my dad had told me that at some point in your life,

you were going to have to,

you know, plant your feet and make a stand.

And he said you’ll know when it is.

And that was one of those moments.

And it was painful. God, I didn’t want to leave.

You know, he kind of forced my hand.

You know, Stick moved on, PR directors moved on.

The Mattingly eras over, Showalter,

who had meant so much to transitioning them, gone.

You wondered what was going to happen here.

That off season, if you would have told me,

oh, by the way, this is the beginning of a dynasty.

I would have been like, "No way."

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