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Derek Jeter was named after a Boston Bruins hockey player.

1970s1970s Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Was I the only one who didn't know this ?

How ironic that he was named after someone who won a Stanley Cup for Boston.

He will also play his last baseball game in Boston.

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  • MapleleafMapleleaf Posts: 506 ✭
    I didn't know that. I'm guessing that would be Derek Sanderson?
  • bigdcardsbigdcards Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭
    Does that make all the kids in NY, named after Jeter, Derek III?
    To bigdcards: "you are right" - cpamike "That is correct" -grote15
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,625 ✭✭✭✭
    Derek Sanderson Jeter was born June 26, 1974 in Pequannock, New Jersey. (Click here for a complete listing of today's sports birthdays.) The first of two kids—he has a sister, Sharlee—Derek grew up in a sports-crazy home. For quite some time a story circulated that his parents, Dorothy and Charles, named him after hockey star Derek Sanderson, the dynamic forward of the Boston Bruins. Derek says that isn't true. He was named after his grandfather, Sanderson Charles Jeter.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
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