Jeter Unfiltered

This is a hard cover book, mostly photos in both colour and black and white, with mostly very short captions or paragraphs, about Jeter's final year playing major league baseball. He is one of the only members of the Yankees to have played his entire career (20 years) with the same team, and to have reached the milestone of 3000 hits. Jeter is also, in my opinion, one of the few players of class, that is, a decent human being both on and off the field. In this age of baseball being more a business and less a real game of *fun*, and with so many spoiled, egotistical and money greedy players, the Derek Jeters of the game are almost non-existent any more. I was never a Yankees fan but was always a Jeter fan. The respect paid him by fans show more and ball clubs throughout the entire baseball system during his final year, speaks volumes about the man.

This is a coffee table type of book but easily read in one sitting show less

I love this book! Love it! It is mostly pictures of Derek, and his friends & family & teammates & games. It is a nicely made book. Some of the pictures are in black & white and some are in color. The pictures are combined with commentary in Jeter's voice. The commentary is very smooth, very slick...full of cliches & received wisdom. There is almost no actual content. I guess a person could tease out some content -- he talks about his small circle of friends & a person could notice who isn't there. But why worry about it?

One thing worried me -- he said his father had never missed a game & I tried to imagine that. When he was being scouted his father worked as a substance abuse counselor, with a doctoral degree in something relevant. But show more did his father go to all his minor league games? To every Yankees game for 20 years? show less