"Five Ways of Looking at the Legend of Derek Jeter"
April 03, 2011
Snarky but good. (Every once in a while, it happens.)
It is his public duty to always be the Great and Pure Young Yankee Shortstop, eternally 22 years old. He has been frozen in time his entire life. This might explain why he’s aging less gracefully than you would have expected: refusing to give up the shortstop position, complaining about contract negotiations after the worst season of his life, building a Florida mansion so huge that the locals call it St. Jetersburg. Youth, for Jeter, is less an age than an existential state. He is every father’s son. And we love him for that.