Perhaps no player before or after had such a lead-in as Derek Jeter. He won the High School Player of the Year Award from USA Today and the ABCA in 1991. He followed that with a Minor League Player of the Year Award in 1993 at age 20, after coursing through all three levels of minor league ball in a single campaign. He joined the Yankees in 1995, became the team’s everyday shortstop in 1996 and won that year’s AL Rookie of the Year Award. Jeter would go on to lead the Yankees to five World Series titles in his Hall of Fame career and retired as the Yankees’ all-time hits leader. Offered here is a Greensboro Hornets logo stamped baseball with Derek Jeter’s signature in blue pen on the sweet spot. Jeter inscribed “5-28-93” making this an early-career signature. Jeter played for the Single-A Greensboro Hornets of the South Atlantic League in 1993. Stamped on the opposite sweet spot is the Minor League logo. This ball comes with a LOA from PSA/DNA for the signature.

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