A highly readable, very excellent perspective on the mythology of Derek Jeter from the Times. My favorite part is the "retrospective" on DJ's final at-bat:

"No one, of course, will ever forget Derek Jeter’s final at-bat. He swung at the first pitch, hit a dribbler back to the mound and was thrown out in roughly two seconds. This, however, did not faze him. Jeter kept running at full speed, past first base, all the way into the outfield. He was running out one last ground ball. When he reached the outfield wall, Jeter touched it and turned left and — still hustling — ran along its entire periphery. At this point, the crowd started to feel that something special might be happening and rose to its feet."

It only gets better. Read the whole thing.