Off-field accomplishments too...
but none greater than passing Lou Gehrig to become the all-time Yankee hit leader. If Yankees Stadium was the house that Ruth built. The new ballpark is surely the house that Jeter built.
(from ESPN)
Jeter passes Gehrig on Yankees' hit list
Puddles soaked the warning track and ponchos dotted the stands when Derek Jeter stepped to the plate in the third inning, hoping to give the soggy Yankee Stadium crowd a reason for showing up in all this rain. With one of his classic, inside-out swings, Jeter sent a sharp grounder skimming through the infield. And there it was, the record-setting hit that pushed him past Lou Gehrig. Jeter broke the New York Yankees' hit record held by Gehrig for more than seven decades on Friday night with an opposite-field single against Baltimore. It gave Jeter 2,722 hits, one more than Gehrig, whose Hall of Fame career was cut short by illness in 1939. "The whole experience has been overwhelming," Jeter said. "This is more than I could've imagined." READ MORE
Now maybe New Yorkers can have a reason to smile on September 11th.
