Facts, Trivia, Memories and More about Derek Jeter

May 23, 2001: Derek goes 5-for-5 with three runs scored, a double and a home run in a 7-3 victory over the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.  It was the first five hit game of his career.

June 21, 2005: Derek goes 5-for-6 with five runs scored, a double and home run and one RBI in a 20-11 win over Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium.  The Yankees trailed 10-2 after four innings and 11-7 heading into the bottom of the 8th when they exploded for 13 runs off two Tampa Bay relievers.  The inning featured twelve hits with four home runs including back-to-back-to-back shots by Gary Sheffield, Alex Rodriguez and Hideki Matsui.  For good measure the Yankees hit for the cycle in the inning.

July 9, 2011:  Derek picks up career hit #3,000 becoming the first Yankee to collect 3,000 hits.  He also goes 5-for-5 in the game with a double and a home run off Tampa Bay starter David Price, which happened to be his 3,000th hit.  Jeter also knocked in the eventual winning run with a one-out single through a drawn in infield in the 8th to give the Yankees a 5-4 victory.

• Derek was assigned #73 in his first training camp.
• When Derek first made the big leagues, it was manager Buck Showalter who ordered the equipment manager to issue him a single digit number, saying, "He is going to be special."
• Derek is the first player to ever wear #2 for any team and get 3,000 hits.
• Derek was the second man to hit a home run for his 3,000th hit.  Wade Boggs was the other.  Derek was also the second player to get 5 hits on the day he reached 3,000 hits, going 5-for-5.  Craig Biggio also nabbed five hits, but was 5-for-6 on the day.

* - Passed Lou Gehrig as all-time Yankees hit leader.

On April 15th, 2007, baseball payed tribute to the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's "breaking of the color barrier" in baseball. On this day, several players around baseball, including the entire Dodgers team, wore #42 in honor of Jackie.Derek was one of three Yankees to change his number just for the day. The other two were Robinson Cano and Joe Torre. Naturally, Mariano Rivera already sported #42, so his wearing of the number was normal and he would be the last player in all of Major League baseball to do so.