Derek Jeter Retires, Immediately Starts Sports Blog ‘The Players’ Tribune’

Less than a week after officially retiring from baseball, Derek Jeter has himself a new project. Named ‘The Players Tribune”, the blog intends to give people an inside account into the sports world, from the eyes of the athlete.

Here’s a preview of Jeter’s first entry, which you can read in entirety here.

Since announcing my decision to retire, the past eight months have been a whirlwind. It’s been overwhelming to go through something so familiar but have it feel so strange, yet moving and humbling. 

I didn’t want to treat this season any differently from my other 19, but I realized early on that was going to be impossible. The constants I’ve come to expect—the desire to win,  the hard work, the team camaraderie, the travel, the ups and downs—were all still there, but it would be wrong to say that this was just another year.