Former Yankees Star Once Revealed How Pinstripes Manager Treated Derek Jeter Differently Compared to Other Black Players in Clubhouse

New York Yankees has been the most dominating MLB team over the last hundred years. But the way the Yankees dominated the late 90s and early 2000s era, no MLB team has done so far. And the major architects of this success were the former Yankees captain Derek Jeter and former manager, Joe Torre.

But if reports are true, then the inside story of the Yankees clubhouse is something else. Although it is difficult to believe, a former Yankees star once accused the then-Yankees manager Joe Torre of racial discrimination.

Yes! He is the same Joe Torre who led the Pinstripes to four World Series titles during his 12 years tenure between 1996 and 2007. What makes this case more surprising is that except for Derek Jeter (who is biracial), Gary Sheffield accused Torre of treating black players differently.

Derek Jeter was the special one in the Yankees clubhouse

Per ABC News, the former Yankees right-fielder shockingly revealed that the then-Yankees manager treated every black player differently in the clubhouse except Derek Jeter. 

When Andrea Kremer of HBO told Sheffield that the Yankees’ most valuable player is also black, referring to  Jeter; Sheffield said that Jeter was not “all the way black.” As earlier mentioned, Jeter has a biracial background.

He also revealed how Jeter would come to him and convince him that Torre is a good man. But Sheffield was brutally honest with his words.

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“Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about. ‘He’s a good man. He’s this, he’s that.’ But like I tell Derek Jeter, ‘That’s you. It’s one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don’t feel what other people feel,'” Sheffield said.

Notably, such allegations from Sheffield were a massive blow to an organization as big as the New York Yankees. Even the Yankees’ media department denied reacting to Sheffield’s statement.

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Do you think such a thing existed in the New York Yankees clubhouse under Joe Torre’s leadership?