People Magazine's 2nd Most Eligible Bachelor!!!
People's Bachelor Issue, July, 2000
DEREK JETER
AGE: 26
HOMETOWN: New York City and Tampa
PROFESSION: Pro baseball player
WHAT HE'S LOOKING FOR: A woman who's "very independent, intelligent and generous."
CAVEAT: He says that he's not ready for marriage. Yet.
Anyone hoping to get to first base with the 6'3" New York Yankee should know this: You will first have to face Jeter's screening committee -- African-American dad Charles, 51, a drug-and-alcohol-abuse counselor, Irish-American mom Dorothy, 47, an accountant, and sister Sharlee, 20, a college student. "My dad is the easiest one," explains the soft-spoken, Michigan-raised shortstop, who receives an average of five crates of mail from mostly female fans every week. "Then you have to deal with my mom. Last is my sister. That's the hardest one. She is the most protective."
Understandably. After all, her big bro is a three-time World Series champ who earns $10 million a year. He's a committed do-gooder who with his dad runs the charitable Turn 2 Foundation, which promotes healthy living among adolescents. Plus, the man Yankees coach Joe Torre once called "the coolest cat in town" is so discreet he's even managed to keep his lips zipped about former flame Mariah Carey.
Boy, Mariah, did you strike out. Jeter will make an all-star husband, says close pal and fellow PEOPLE bachelor Alex Rodriguez, a Seattle Mariners shortstop: "If I had a daughter, Derek is the kind of guy that I would want [her] to marry."