Before Retiring From the Major Leagues, Derek Jeter Once Turned Into a Movie Critic as He Listed His Favorite Movies of All Time

The Baseball legend, Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, did not only like baseball. He was and still is an avid fan of movies. And while talking about movies, a person can easily become a critic and talk about the stuff they like or not. 

It was the same with the former shortstop. Months before the former shortstop retired from the Major Leagues as a New York Yankee, he sat down with a reporter from ESPN and talked about things other than baseball. 

Those things included Jeter’s love for the theater and how he could easily spend his time watching movies. However, it is not clear how often he goes now, but when he was still a bachelor, he used to go to the movies a lot, especially in the offseason. One of the things that he talked about was his favorite movies of that time and what he loved about them.

What were the movies that baseball legend Derek Jeter listed as his favorite?

Jeter called himself a movie person. He also said that he used to go out three to four times a week if any new movies were coming out. One other thing that he mentioned was that he went to see the movies without any disguise on. 

“You go during the week in the afternoon—no one is there,” Jeter said. “It is one of my favorite things to do.”

At that time, the movie that was at the top of Jeter’s list was ‘American History X.’ To him, this movie showed how people can change, and how they are the products of their environments. Then came ‘Major League,’ and it was the one that Jeter saw while being pretty young. Then came The Shawshank Redemption, The Five Heartbeats, Scarface, The Shining, etc. 

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An avid movie fan like Jeter could easily list a huge number of movies and still won’t get bored.

Jeter used to sing as a teenager!

Not a professional singer but the former shortstop in his college days used to sing songs of his crush Mariah Carey. His locker mate has also shared this part about him. 

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He used to sing her songs, he was not great, but he did enjoy it. He also used to say that one day he would marry her. However, he did end up dating his childhood crush for a few months.