Last Thoughts
I am now completely finished with Derek Jeter’s autobiography. Honestly, it got slightly boring in the last few chapters leading up to the ending, but the very last chapter was great. Jeter talked again about how his career did not just happen all in one day and how his life is not perfect. He explained how he is just an ordinary person like everyone else, who leads a not so ordinary life, which is an interesting way of looking at his life.
Jeter also mentions how important it is to think before you act, especially if you are a major league baseball player and people are watching every move you make. One thing he said or did could ruin his entire baseball career, which is an extremely scary thought. Jeter tells stories about Darryl Strawberry, one of Jeter’s good friends, and how he ruined his baseball career by doing drugs. Jeter hated how Strawberry was doing drugs, but Strawberry’s situation also taught Jeter a good lesson about what the consequences were of doing drugs.
At first, I did not really like the way this book was written because it was not exactly in chronological order. Derek would talk about baseball in the majors, then he would jump to his high school baseball career, and then he would talk about his friends from elementary school. But in the end, everything ties in together and makes sense, so Derek really did know what he was doing when he wrote this book.
I think that it was such a great idea for Derek Jeter to write his own book about how he became successful. It shows that baseball players and other sports figures can be well educated too, even though some, like Jeter, did not go to college. Jeter has always been my favorite player for many reasons. One, of course, being he is great at what he does. But I also loved Derek because he has a great attitude, he is fair and would never touch a bad drug, he is smart, and he wants to help people. By reading his book, that just reinforced how much I truly love Jeter because of all of the great things he has done on and off the field.
