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When Derek Jeter was fourteen, he promised himself that if he made it in the major leagues, he would make sure that he had a positive impact on children's lives. "I want to help nurture dreams, I want to show kids there's another way to go," said the young Jeter. He followed through on his vision when he established the Turn 2 Foundation during his rookie year in 1996. Since its inception, the Foundation has initiated and nurtured several successful programs fostering healthy lifestyles and leadership skills, baseball clinics, and other after-school programs.
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There is a confidence about Derek Jeter that is evident every time he strides onto the baseball field. Watch him move toward the plate lugging the bat like a shovel, watch him glide to his left to snare a grounder effortlessly and watch him scoot around the bases, and his confidence spills forth. Jeter is totally composed.
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AP - Bobby Thomson, Kirk Gibson or Derek Jeter — which one survives Jeff Probst's online tribal council? In a parody of his role as host of "Survivor," Probst has created a spot for actober.com, which is produced by Major League Baseball.
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Some sources state that Jeter was named after 1970s Boston Bruins' hockey player Derek Sanderson, but this information is not confirmed by the biography on Jeter's site or any other conclusive source. Favorite food is chicken parmigiana. Has his own signature line of sneakers under the Jordan brand, a division of Nike. Has appeared in national ad campaigns for Nike, Gatorade, Fleet Bank, MasterCard, Visa, Skippy Peanut Butter and XM Satellite Radio, among others. Receives a reported $6 million per year in endorsements, more than any other baseball player after Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners. Voted the 'most marketable player in baseball' in a 2005 Sports Business Journal poll.
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Jeter began the Turn 2 Foundation, a charity organization, in 1996. The Foundation was established to help children and teenagers avoid drug and alcohol addiction, and to reward those who show high academic achievement. The organization's name was chosen, besides the baseball reference to a double play (and Jeter's uniform number), to demonstrate the goal of giving youths a place to "turn to", besides drugs and alcohol.[25]
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That spring, the Yankees drafted Derek with the sixth overall pick in the June 1992 draft. In 1993, his first full-year of professional baseball, Derek was voted the "Most Outstanding Major League Prospect" by South Atlantic League managers after hitting .295 with 5 HR, 71 RBIs and 18 stolen bases at Class-A Greensboro. He was named to the All-Star Team after finishing second in the league in triples (11), third in hits (152) and 11th in batting average. Derek was ... voted by Baseball America as the South Atlantic League's Best Defensive Shortstop, Most Exciting Player and Best Infield Arm.
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