This article will inform readers about the parents of Derek Jeter, an American former professional baseball shortstop.
Derek Sanderson Jeter is an American former professional baseball shortstop, businessman, and baseball executive. As a player, Jeter spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees.
Jeter was born on June 26, 1974, in Pequannock Township, New Jersey, the son of accountant Dorothy and substance abuse counselor Sanderson Charles Jeter.
The Jeters lived in New Jersey until Derek was four years old, at which point they moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. At age five Jeter began playing little league baseball. The children lived with their parents during the school year and spent their summers with their grandparents in New Jersey. Attending New York Yankees games with his grandparents, Jeter became a passionate fan of the team. Watching star outfielder Dave Winfield inspired him to pursue a career in baseball.
Jeter attended Kalamazoo Central High School, where he ran cross country in the fall, played basketball in the winter and baseball in the spring. Jeter posted high batting averages for the school’s baseball team; he batted .557 in his sophomore year and .508 as a junior. In his senior year, he batted .508 and compiled 23 runs batted in (RBIs), 21 walks, four home runs, a .637 on-base percentage (OBP), a .831 slugging percentage (SLG), 12 stolen bases (in 12 attempts), and only one strikeout.
Jeter played four seasons in Minor League Baseball, formally known as the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL). Jeter began the 1992 season with the Gulf Coast Yankees of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League, based in Tampa, Florida.
The Yankees promoted Jeter to the Greensboro Hornets of the Class A South Atlantic League (SAL) to give him more at-bats. He batted .247 in his first 11 games with Greensboro, and struggled defensively, making nine errors in 48 chances.
Early in the 1995 season, Fernández and infielder Pat Kelly were injured. Consequently, Jeter made his MLB debut on May 29, 1995. He was assigned uniform number 2, which was most recently worn by Mike Gallego from 1992 to 1994.
Eligible for salary arbitration for the first time before the 1999 season, Jeter was awarded a $5 million salary. Jeter led the AL in hits that season with 219, while finishing second in the league in batting average (.349) and runs scored (134), appearing in his second All-Star game that year. During the 1999–2000 offseason, the Yankees negotiated with Jeter, tentatively agreeing to a seven-year, $118.5 million contract.
Jeter is considered to be one of the most consistent baseball players of all time. He played fewer than 145 games a season only three times in his career: when he dislocated his left shoulder on Opening Day 2003 (119 games) when he injured his calf in 2011 (131 games), and in 2013 when he struggled with a myriad of injuries (17 games).
Who are the parents of Derek Jeter?
His mother, Dorothy Jeter is of English, German, and Irish ancestry, while his father, Sanderson Charles Jeter is an African-American. Derek Jeter’s parents, Charles and Dorothy, met in 1972 while both were serving in the U.S. military and stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. This was during a time when cultural attitudes were not always tolerant, making it all the more remarkable that they were able to meet and fall in love.
Coming from a very humble background, Charles Jeter completed his master’s degree at West Michigan University after serving US Military. And after earning a doctorate in sociology, the senior Jeter devoted his time to helping people as a substance abuse counselor.
When Jeter was a child, his parents made him sign a contract every year that defined acceptable and unacceptable forms of behavior. Dorothy instilled a positive attitude in her son, insisting that he not use the word “can’t.” It was a baseball family, and Jeter’s younger sister Sharlee (born c. 1979) was a softball star in high school.
Today, the entire Jeter family is an active part of the Turn 2 Foundation. The future New York Yankees captain founded it in 1996 with the goal to prevent drug and alcohol addiction among young people and to recognize and incentivize those who demonstrate excellent academic performance.
While Derek Jeter’s only sibling, Sharlee Jeter is the President, his father is the Vice President, and his mother, Dorothy, is the treasurer of the foundation.
Source: www.ghbase.com
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