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In his 20 years as the face of the franchise, Derek Jeter returned the Yankees to baseball supremacy and was among the most famous people in New York. But with all that Big Apple attention came scrutiny, not the least of which was focused on the Yankees captain’s love life. On Tuesday, Jeter finally addressed one of the more saucy rumors that has followed him for the better part of the past decade.
Ahead of the release of an ESPN docuseries on his life and career called The Captain, Jeter cleared the air on the rumor that he would bestow upon his one-night stands a gift basket the morning after they spent the night at his apartment. That bit of gossip came from a 2011 story in the New York Post that claimed Jeter made a habit of “coldly sending them home alone with gift baskets of autographed memorabilia.”
