ESPN's Derek Jeter documentary promises to be a comprehensive portrait, but williamfleitch can’t help but wonder how much of the “real” Jeter we’ll get to see
An expert at deflecting. Photo: Lynne Sladky/AP/Shutterstock On Monday night, episode one of The Captain, a seven-part miniseries chronicling the career of Derek Jeter, premiered on ESPN. I haven’t seen it yet, but the show, clearly patterned after the pandemic hit The Last Dance, is directed by Spike Lee protégé Randy Wilkins and seems to have all the gloss and crisp production of a typical, high-quality ESPN documentary. For entertainment purposes, it’ll do the trick.
But I did want to give my new editors something. So I came up with an idea: I would request press access to 30 consecutive Yankees home games. Before each one, I would head to the Yankees’ locker room and ask Jeter a single question. After 30 days of daily one-minute interviews, I’d have enough Jeter insights to cobble together some sort of profile. It wasn’t a traditional approach, but maybe that would work in my favor. At the very least, it would be something different.
It kept on like this, with me giving it a good-faith effort and Jeter cheerfully but bloodlessly providing me with nothing in return. By the 20th day or so, it was obvious it wasn’t really going to work. But I had begun to enjoy running up the hill every day, and I sensed it sort of tickled Jeter, too. As the days ticked by, he began chuckling the second I started walking up to him. One time, he called me 60-Second Will.
He clucked his tongue and gave a slight nod, as if to say, Well, then my work here is done. I thanked him for his time and told him I hope he likes the piece, whenever I figured out what it would be. “Yeah, good luck with that,” he said. “Sounds like you’ll need it.”
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