Derek Jeter's 3000th Hit

Derek Jeter watches hit number 3000 (a homerun) leave the ballpark

When you think about the wonderful and glorious history of the New York Yankees, a lot of things come to mind, Ruth's homeruns, Gehrig's ironman streak of games played, Joe D's incredible hitting streak, Reggie Jackson as Mr. October, Maris and Mantel's quest to pass Babe Ruth's single season homerun record, Mariano Rivera's postseason saves record, the list of amazing feats from Yankee players literally goes on and on, and on. However, there is one thing no player had ever done in a Yankee uniform, which was get their 3,000th hit as a Yankee, that was until this past Saturday, when Mr. November, Mr. 3000 himself, Derek Jeter became the first player in the amazing history of the New York Yankees to get hit number 3000 as a Yankee, and how fitting. Derek Jeter for the Yankees is the modern day Ruth, the modern day Mantle, he is the face of this Yankees franchise, so it was only fitting if there would be a player to finally reach this major milestone as a Yankee it would be him, and how amazing is it that Jeter's 3000 hit was a no-doubt homerun in front of the Yankee Stadium crowd.

Afterall, it was when the shortstop first came up from the minor leagues that the Yankees once again became relevant, the Yankees won a World Series in 1981 and nothing else until Jeter's first full year in 1996 when they beat the Braves. Since then Jeter has been to 7 World Series, won 5 of them including a World Series MVP in the 2000 series against the Mets, he's also won countless other awards with the exception of a regular season MVP, however he did come in 2nd twice, but I'm sure he'd rather have 5 World Series over a MVP.

So congratulations to Derek Jeter on accomplishing just one more amazing and unbelievable feat as a Yankee. Dick Vitale recently tweeted about a Yankee version of Mount Rushmore, I think that would look something like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, and you can now offically say Captain Intangibles, Mr. November, Mr. 3000 or whatever other nickname Derek Jeter has. 

Fun Fact: The nickname of Mr. November is of course a play on Reggie Jackson's infamous nickname Mr. October. Jeter got the nickname in the 2001 World Series, the Series that year was pushed back due to the 9/11 attacks. The Yankees had made a miracle comeback against the Arizona Diamondbacks late in the 9th inning, on Halloween night. The game would go in to extra innings and soon after the stroke of midnight Derek Jeter would hit a walkoff homerun, thusly becoming Mr. November.