1 Chapter 0 Who Is Derek Jeter

Who Is Derek Jeter?

谁是德瑞克·基特?

Who Is Derek Jeter? On April 2, 1996, Major League Baseball's Opening Day, the New York Yankees faced the Cleveland Indians. Once, the Yankees had been the top ball club in the country. They were a dynasty, with World Series titles. But the Yankees hadn't won a championship in eighteen years. They hadn't won the American League pennant since 1981. Maybe this would be the start of a championship season at last. Today they were playing at Cleveland's Jacobs Field, and the score was tied, 0–0, in the top of the second. The Yankees had two men on base. New York fans grew excited. But now there were two outs. Could the Yankees still score? Twenty-one-year-old Derek Jeter stepped to the plate. And he . . . struck out.

谁是德瑞克·基特?1996年4月2日，美国职业棒球大联盟开幕日，纽约洋基队迎战克利夫兰印第安人队。 洋基队曾经是全国最好的棒球俱乐部。 他们是一个王朝，拥有世界职业棒球大赛冠军。 但是洋基队已经有18年没有赢得过冠军了。 自1981年以来，他们就没有赢得过美国联盟的锦旗。 也许这将是一个冠军赛季的开始。 今天他们在克利夫兰的雅各布斯球场比赛，比分是0-0，在第二局的上半部分。 洋基队有两人在垒上。 纽约球迷兴奋不已。 但现在有两个人出局了。 洋基队还能得分吗? 21岁的德瑞克·基特走上本垒板。 而他……三振出局。

Derek was the first Yankees rookie to start at shortstop on Opening Day in more than thirty years. Why Derek? some fans wondered. Why now? He'd had a poor spring training. They doubted his strength at bat and on the field. It seemed they might be right. Derek told himself it was okay. This was just a game like any other. He tried not to be

德里克是三十多年来洋基队第一个在开幕日担任游击手的新秀。 为什么德里克?一些粉丝想知道。 为什么是现在?他的春训很糟糕。 他们怀疑他在击球和球场上的能力。 他们似乎是对的。 德里克告诉自己没关系。 这只是一个和其他游戏一样的游戏。 他试着不那么做

nervous. But it was hard. He was young and inexperienced. An April Fool's snowstorm had pushed the game back a day. The wait made it even harder. But Derek was determined to make a difference. In the fifth inning, he got a second chance at bat. Derek took two pitches, both balls. Then he saw a high fastball. He swung. Crack! The ball sailed high into the left-field stands. A home run! Two innings later, Derek made an over-the-shoulder, one-handed catch. He stranded a man on base to leave the Indians scoreless. The Yankees wound up winning 7–1. Any doubts about Derek Jeter vanished. For the Yankees, it was the start of a championship season. And for Derek Jeter, it

紧张。但这很难。他年轻又没有经验。 一场愚人节的暴风雪把比赛推迟了一天。 等待让事情变得更加艰难。 但德里克决心要有所作为。 在第五局时，他得到了第二次击球机会。 德里克投了两个球，两个球。 然后他看到了一个高而快的球。 他摇摆。裂缝!球高高飞进左外场看台。 全垒打!两局后，德里克做了一个过肩单手接球。 他把一个人搁浅在垒上，使印第安人队一分未得。 洋基队最终以7-1获胜。 所有对队长的怀疑都消失了。 对洋基来说，这是一个冠军赛季的开始。 对德瑞克·基特来说，就是这样

was the start of an amazing major league career. By the time Derek retired, he had won five World Series titles, five Gold Gloves, five Silver Sluggers, Rookie of the Year, and a slew of other awards. He'd been a Yankee for almost half his life. And before he was a Yankee, he was a Yankees fan. Surely the biggest Yankees fan from Kalamazoo, Michigan.

是他职业生涯的开始。 到德里克退役的时候，他已经赢得了五次世界大赛冠军，五次金手套，五次银棒，年度最佳新秀，以及一系列其他奖项。 他当了近半生的北方佬。 在加入洋基队之前，他是洋基队的球迷。 肯定是来自密歇根州卡拉马祖的洋基队头号球迷。

YANKEES HISTORY LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM, EVERYONE KNOWS THE YANKEES. THEY ARE ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TEAMS IN ALL OF PRO SPORTS. AS OF 2014, THE TEAM HAD WON FORTY AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANTS AND TWENTYSEVEN WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIPS, MORE THAN TWICE THE NUMBER OF ANY OTHER MAJOR LEAGUE TEAM. IN 1923, THE TEAM MOVED TO ITS OWN STADIUM IN THE BRONX. THAT SAME YEAR, BABE RUTH LED THE YANKEES TO THEIR FIRST WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP. MANY MORE TITLES FOLLOWED, THANKS TO LEGENDARY PLAYERS LIKE LOU GEHRIG, JOE DIMAGGIO, MICKEY MANTLE—AND DEREK JETER!

不管是爱他们还是恨他们，每个人都知道洋基队。 他们是所有职业运动中最成功的球队之一。 截至2014年，这支球队赢得了40次美国联盟锦旗和27次世界大赛冠军，是其他任何一支大联盟球队的两倍多。 1923年，球队搬到了布朗克斯区自己的体育场。 同年，贝比·鲁斯带领洋基队获得了他们的第一个世界大赛冠军。 更多的冠军接踵而至，这要感谢像卢·格里格、乔·迪马吉奥、米奇·曼特尔和德里克·基特这样的传奇球员!