Derek Jeter

Do you know anyone that has been drafted into professional baseball after they graduated high school? Well I do, his name is Derek Jeter. After high school Derek Jeter was picked by the New York Yankees and ever since then he has played for them. Derek Jeter is skillful, confident, and generous. Derek’s full name is Derek Sanderson Jeter. He was born June 26, 1974. His age is 35. He’s 6’3 and weighs 195 pounds. His hometown is Pequannock New Jersey. He is an American professional baseball player. He is a major league baseball shortstop who has played his entire career for the New York Yankees.

Jeter maintains an apartment in Manhattan’s Trump World Tower and homes in Marlboro, New Jersey, Greenwoods Lake New York and the David’s Island Neighborhood of Tampa Florida. National Sports Awards. Derek Jeter’s salary is $21,600,000 just from 2009.

He is a highly skilled baseball player. He has served as the Yankees team captain since 2003. After he graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School, he won several national sports awards. He is the all-time shortstop and his .317 career batting average through the 2009 season ranks as the fifth-highest among active players. He has been among the American League (AL) leaders in hits and runs scored for the past ten years. He is the Yankees all-time leader for most runs scored.

Derek once said to his father, "If I make it to the major leagues, I want to set up a foundation that will have a positive impact on kids. I want to help nurture dreams. I want to show kids how there's another way to go." The Turn 2 Foundation is about helping kids not to get addicted to drugs and alcohol. They also give kids, with high grades in school, scholarships. To encourage them to keep getting good grades and to accomplish their goals, Turn 2 gives out camperships for more than 100 students. Another thing that Derek Jeter wants is to encourage kids to have a healthy lifestyle. He supports a program called Girls On The Run. The program uses the power of running to teach girls about their personal power and the importance about staying healthy.

Derek Jeter has inspired me because his example encourages me to have confidence that I am good at what I am doing. He has courage not to back down. Jeter is important to me because he has changed my life to keep my goals ahead of me. I did my project on Derek Jeter because I thought it could help other students to remind them to stay healthy, and to be a good student.