The Captain

Although I'm an Australian lady I actually HAVE heard of Derek Jeeter before, but only little snippets, say from an old David Letterman interview and other late-night talk shows.

I also was aware of the rivalry between the New York Yankies and the Boston Redsox, which is often referred to in various TV shows and miscellaneous movies that come our way down under.

However, of course, I had no idea of the true story behind Derek and his amazing talent as a top world class baseball player and his induction into the Hall of Fame.

It was very interesting to hear opinions of the racial aspect with him being bi-racial and I found his relationship with his parents and players to be fascinating.

I am now 69 years old but many many years ago during primary school I used to play what we call Softball here, and actually did take the position as Shortstop. So the game of baseball was always very enjoyable for me, even though I never made a career out of it. Not sure if that was even possible, living here in Australia.

Loved the input from Michael Jordan regarding constantly being hounded by the press, and also his thoughts on fame and fortune.

All in all I totally loved the high quality and detailed content of this doco and ended up binge-watching the entire seven episodes. Learnt a lot about baseball in the process.

Really good stuff - well done and congrats to Derek and the producers.

Love the content and background info this gives us on Jeter. Really cool to learn more about a player that already has books written about him. Excited to see where it progresses from here.

The score is awful, plodding super serious strings sawing away, making it sound like the story will climax in the arrest of a serial killer. The story of Derek Jeter is just not interesting- incredibly paint by the numbers dull. Just dreadful.

There's only enough interesting content about Derek Jeter for one, maybe two episodes. They instead fill the rest of the time just showing like a thousand photos of Derek Jeter. Once you've seen a dozen, you've seen them all. This documentary does NOT help the stereotype of baseball being boring, because this was too boring to even just have on in the background while I'm on the internet.

I watched it and it was interesting but not great. The Michael Jordan one was great, this one not so much. Very much like Jeter always felt calculated as a player in how his "public persona" was handled this documentary seemed very manufactured into "what Jeter wanted you to take from it, as opposed to a real behind the scenes look". Jordan's documentary was much better at getting to see the real Michael Jordan. Not that Jeter owes it to any of us to show the "real Derek Jeter" but if you put a documentary out there then don't script it. If you want privacy, go for it. If you want fame, go for it. But to me this felt like Jeter riding the yellow line and pushing a story that he wanted you to believe about him instead of a behind the scenes look of transparency. I didn't love this one. Would not be high on my list of recommendations. Felt very manufactured to me.