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20 real ways Rick Reilly describes Derek Jeter

Alternate headline: “I had to read this, so you do, too.”

Rick Reilly wrote a letter to Derek Jeter’s unborn children. Here is a list of the different ways Reilly describes Jeter:

  • a kind of prince in baseball cleats
  • George Clooney in pinstripes
  • the guy every woman wanted to bring home to mom, and very few did
  • humble
  • handsome
  • hard to hate
  • the best player in baseball for a good 10 years straight
  • like a good magician
  • the guy with the $15 million Trump Tower penthouse
  • the dude dating Miss Universe
  • the man with all of the talent and none of the jerk
  • everything women wanted, too
  • the elegant athlete who loved books, paid for everything, and had a limo waiting for them when it was time to go
  • like a rooster’s crow
  • hilarious
  • like an eagle deciding to take the bus
  • gentleman
  • charmer
  • 1,000-point star
  • a bit of a germ freak

There are 1,131 words in Rick Reilly’s latest article on Derek Jeter. Those were 121 of them.

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