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Hard to believe with all the great players in their history...that Jeter will be the 1st Yankee with

HallcoHallco Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭
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When you consider the huge names that played for them....Mantle,Gehrig, Ruth,DiMaggio,Berra,etc... It's kind of eye opening I think!

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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Yep. It is amazing. It seems like every great they've had either started with someone else (Ruth, Maris, Jackson, Winfield, etc.), had a Military interruption (Dimaggio, Dickey), had chronic injuries (Mantle, Mattingly) or met with an early demise (Gehrig, Munson). Yogi Berra is one of the few to spend a long career uninterrupted in pinstripes. All props to Jeter for being the first.
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    Don't Rickey Henderson and Dave Winfield count as Yankees?
  • HallcoHallco Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Don't Rickey Henderson and Dave Winfield count as Yankees? >>



    Only Steinbrenner could answer that question! imageimage
  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,804 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I recently read "Yogi Berra Eternal Yankee" by Allen Barra. Very enjoyable. Yogi was not a good defensive catcher early in his career and missed some at bats there he also only played in 140 or more games 6 times limiting his at bats. He also was primarily a middle of the order guy who was there to drive in runs. A tremendous player.
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  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What' more about Jeter is that he's already got, by far, the most hits by a SS ever. He will be the only one to have gotten 3,000 by a SS and it may very well never happen again. >>



    wasn't there a "little known" player from the Orioles who played quite a bit at SS with over 3000 hits?

    granted Jeter will surpass and it will probably never happen again.
  • 57loaded57loaded Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭
    yeah okay image

    i can't remember why Ripken moved from SS to 3rd

    they both had hitting skills beyond any modern day SS and can't leave A-Rod out, can we?
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm talking purely about hits garnered while playing the SS position >>




    When Jeter reaches 3000 hits they will not all be from while he was playing SS.

    I'm sure some have come from the DH position.

    Wagner also has 3000 hits and was primarily a SS.
    Good for you.
  • greencrowgreencrow Posts: 867
    Did Darryl Strawberry have 3,000 bong hits while playing for the Yankees?
  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And a homer to boot!!!!
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  • twileytwiley Posts: 1,923 ✭
    What an awesome way to get hit # 3,000. It was done in true Bronx Bomber style. So frickin' awesome to watch with my sons.
  • greencrowgreencrow Posts: 867
    What a great day to get hit 3,000. On O.J.'s birthday.
  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭✭
    I guess this means Derek Jeter has now clinched Cooperstown, right? image
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  • illinifan912illinifan912 Posts: 1,462 ✭
    yep brett was right 3,000 was so hard for him to get oh yeah if he missed that he would've had 3,000 in the next bat or the 2 others there after.
  • HallcoHallco Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    << <i>yep brett was right 3,000 was so hard for him to get oh yeah if he missed that he would've had 3,000 in the next bat or the 2 others there after. >>



    I think Brett meant getting 3000 over the course of his career silly. Though I think him being the only player to win a batting title in three different decades (1976, 1980, 1990) is even more impressive.
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  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>Don't Rickey Henderson and Dave Winfield count as Yankees? >>




    There are 4 players from the current 3,000 hit club that played on the Yankees (Yankees hits in parenthesis):

    Dave Winfield (1300)
    Wade Boggs (702)
    Rickey Henderson (646)
    Paul Waner (1)

    Winfield is the only player that can be considered "primarily" a Yankee but he still got only 1,300 hits as a Yankee. Even if you want to use a much softer criterion, non of these players got their 3,000th hit as a Yankee. None of this means anything to me particularly as one Yankee fan. The criterion for me would be that they get at least 3,000 hits AS A YANKEE. Huge extra bonus if they are a Yankee lifer as I expect Jeter will be.

    What' more about Jeter is that he's already got, by far, the most hits by a SS ever. He will be the only one to have gotten 3,000 by a SS and it may very well never happen again. >>




    And Waner is the only one who got to 3,000 hits before joining the Yankees. The others all got to 3,000 after leaving the Yankees.

    Steve
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jeter's great, BUT he is still over 1000 short of the guy they won't even put in the Hall!! Freakin rediculous!!!!!!!!!!
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