By the way, this article goes on for six pages.
Six pages in a March, 2010 New York Daily News article explaining who Derek Jeter is and what Derek Jeter has done.
Is there anyone in the New York Daily News readership who doesn't know all of this already?
Why can't Jeter be appreciated for his world-class, All Star, Hall of Fame abilities without continual exaggeration of these abilities?
A guy who hits 15 HRs per year ... even if that player eventually earns the title of greatest shortstop ever ... even if that player gets 4,000 hits ... that player simply can never be better than Babe Ruth.
Most popular Yankee ever? Perhaps. Different question.
Best Yankee shortstop ever? He passed Rizzuto about 10 years ago.
Best shortstop ever? It's possible, though it is really just due to a technicality, because Jeter never moved to third base or first base like other superior shortstops.
Best Yankee ever? Don't even ask the question because it's dopey.
It's not Jeter's fault. If you want to put him on the fictional Yankee Mount Rushmore, that's fine. It's just that Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, Berra, and Dimaggio all happened to play for the Yankees.
Also, the existence of Mariano Rivera begs the question if Jeter is even the best Yankee on his own team.
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