Derek Jeter Elected
to Baseball Hall of Fame On Jan. 21, longtime New York
Yankees captain Derek Jeter was
chosen for the baseball Hall of Fame. Jeter, who played all 20 of
his seasons with the Yankees
after being drafted in 1992,
is a 14-time All Star. He has a total of 3,465 career hits, has played
in a record 158 playoff games and helped lead
the Yankees to five World Series crowns. Prior to the voting, Jeter said he
experienced a lot of “anxiety,”
as the Hall of Fame decision
was “out of [his] control.” Derek Jeter, via ESPN As it turns out, Jeter was only one
vote away from being a unanimous pick. He is now the recipient
of the second highest
voting percentage ever,
with 99.7 percent. That’s just above Ken Griffey Jr.’s 99.3 percent
and just below Mariano Rivera’s 100 percent.
