{"id":39877,"date":"2025-11-14T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39877\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T21:00:08","slug":"how-derek-jeter-became-synonymous-with-this-quarter-century-of-new-york-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39877\/","title":{"rendered":"How Derek Jeter became synonymous with this quarter-century of New York sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last quarter century of New York sports has been enough time for us to witness an incalculable number of captivating moments, brilliant athletes, elite teams and, unfortunately, embarrassing debacles.<\/p>\n<p>Given that, The Post surveyed its staff, tallied everyone\u2019s votes and assembled our rankings involving the century\u2019s first 25 years of New York athletes, teams, debacles and moments.<\/p>\n<p>We start our series today with the Best Athletes, including a focus on Yankees icon Derek Jeter. Hopefully you\u2019ll follow along and also let us know your own rankings via our social channels.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll do it all again in 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last quarter century of New York sports has been enough time for us to witness an incalculable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23201,20,9,24,55,54,321,56,319,428],"class_list":["post-39877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-derek-jeter","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-ny","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}