JETER Unfiltered

JETER Unfiltered

 

By

 

Derek Jeter with Anthony Bozza  - All Rights Reserved

2014

 

Photographs by Christopher Anderson

Review by

 

Sampson I.M. Onwuka 

Jeter Unfiltered reflects part of last years of Derek Jeter contractual agreement with the New York Yankees from 1996 – 2014 as a professional baseball player. Jeter writes back to the years as a Yankee beginning in 1994 at Minor Awards at the Yankee Stadium to the later years. He won 5 World Championship in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2009.

 

In his words “Last year was a tough one for me. As I suffered through a bunch of injuries, I realized that some of the things that always came easily to me and were always fun had started to become a struggle.” The statement is not a summary of Jeter Unfiltered but breaks for a reason why it was upon him to ease from baseball. 

 

Composed perhaps during his recovery from a 2013 injury, the author share his authority in baseball and allow the reader to see his inner circles for the first time, including his experience – in high cash cluster environment such as New York with nerve wrecking expectation and the thrill to deliver.

 

He write with some experience and exposure on Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs, Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera, etc., Joe Torre, and in his usual charisma offered less judgment that would have formed a dissent, writes about his (to) yoga classes-training season, his announcing his final years in (spare) of injuries, 2003 captain-ship of Yankees, the announcement, his family in a slovenly production curvature.

New books by young authors reflect a shift to moving pictures and to the reality that every day is important. 20yras – not enough pictures with friends/teammates – the Crux of his existence – Categories in few movements

There is obvious Lack of range, linear acrobat, pictures mainly reflected the last 2-3 years of his life a Yankee – if not the last year. Hardly mentioned anything about his family, poor memories even poor plans of future makes the book a dull and indolent effort.  We can however divide the book in three movements (dispatch)

(1)    Those dry season Yankees which ended with his arriving in 1995 (1995/96 – 2001) and early years

(2)    The resurgence of the Yankees and the transition to a new stadium from the house that ‘Rose built.’ (Captain 2003 – 2008)

(3)    The end of Steinbrenner and the financial fallout situation with Yankees - the pay cuts and the arrivals of new crop of players. His over 3, 000 hits and an aging legacy and he choose to retire.












A picture of future Captain