Derek Jeter Quotes
The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.
O'Connor, Ian. The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Over 200 years later Ataturk, the leader of Turkey, also mandated Western dress. The theory was that by adopting Western dress, other Western modernization would follow. Another benefit is that a populous sees visible change and is therefore more open to additional change and modernization. In the case of Turkey, there was a social hierarchy that was indicated by dress and requiring western dress eliminated these outward and visible signs of rank thus promoting equality. In Russia, it was an earlier time and Peter’s Russians were much more backward than the Turks of over 200 years later.
Derek Sanderson Jeter is an American former professional baseball shortstop, businessman, and baseball executive. He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) and part owner of the Miami Marlins of Major League Baseball (MLB) since September 2017. As a player, Jeter spent his entire 20-year MLB career with the New York Yankees. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 2020; he received 396 of 397 possible votes (99.75%), the second-highest percentage in MLB history and the highest by a position player.