Ian O'Connor
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Every spring, Little Leaguers across the country squabble over the right to wear his number: 2. Derek Jeter is their hero. He walks in the footsteps of Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, and Mantle, and someday his shadow will loom just as large. Yet he has never been the best player in baseball. In fact, he hasn't always been the best player on his team. But what he does have is an intangible grace that makes him the face-and the hero-of the modern Yankee dynasty,...