While Lee is known for often appearing on TV as an unabashed booster of the Yankees as well as his beloved Knicks, Wilkins said he consciously wanted to avoid indulging his fan side as he told the story. It was this moment that transcended baseball, it was this survival moment where the city and the country was going through.” What makes that scene work is there’s so much emotional investment with the team, with where the country was at the time, where the city was at the time. Sometimes, they just show you the play and they’re talking about the brilliance of the play, but the context that the play lives within is just as important. Wilkins said his goal with sequences like the one documenting the flip play was “creating that larger context in which that play exists. The play came as the Yankees were rallying New York and the country at large just a few weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks. One example is the iconic flip play in the 2001 playoffs, when Jeter took a throw from right field on the dead run and flipped it to Yankees catcher Jorge Posada in time to tag out the Oakland A’s runner trying to score. Unlike The Last Dance, The Captain doesn’t center on never-before-seen archival material, but its canny revisiting of past clips bears considerable fruit. … The emotional beats that were arising out of the footage was essentially the road map to follow.” If that’s where it’s leading us, that’s where we’re going to go. “We definitely mapped everything out, but we allowed ourselves the opportunity to go in different directions if that’s where the story went,” he said. The Marlins-centric episode expanded upon the original plan to make an even half-dozen, Wilkins said, when filmmakers sensed the makings for a timelier finale. The climactic seventh episode focuses on Jeter’s bumpy period as CEO of the Miami Marlins and decision to step away from the team earlier this year after four-plus years of mostly frustration. This year’s Yankee team has a good chance to end the 13-year title drought, having compiled the best record in baseball through the All-Star break.
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While the pair played on one World Series winner in 2009, the impression was left that it should have been more, given the team has won more than any other team in baseball. Subsequent betrayals of Jeter (conceded on camera by Rodriguez) and his decision to move to third base when he was signed by the Yankees provide lively material. The two became friends in high school and wound up in the media spotlight for years given they both played shortstop and were seen as the future of the sport. Rodriguez was a surprise get, Wilkins said, given his complicated history with Jeter. Cultural figures like late-night TV hosts Desus & Mero and hip-hop artists Fat Joe and Jadakiss also appear, as does Jeter’s wife, Hannah. Charles Jeter, sister Sharlee Jeter his wife, the show explores Jeter’s unique drive, and his exploits once he became the Yankees’ full-time shortstop in 1996.Įven the mildly baseball-curious will feast on interviews with Roger Clemens, Tino Martinez, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Willie Randolph, Mariano Rivera, Alex Rodriguez, CC Sabathia, Darryl Strawberry, Joe Torre and Bernie Williams. Through interviews with Jeter, mother and father Dorothy and Dr. Using Jeter’s farewell season in 2014 as a through-line, the series charts Jeter’s rise from a Yankee-loving toddler to a high school standout in Michigan who was drafted by his favorite team in 1992. Pairs of episodes will air and stream on July 28 and August 4, with the finale set for August 11. ET, both on linear ESPN and streaming on ESPN+, with the second episode following on Thursday. The series will premiere Monday night at 10 p.m. The media outlet has since broadened its scope and came aboard as one of the producers of The Captain. Jeter has been an early advocate of telling stories from athletes’ perspective, having founded The Players’ Tribune in 2014. Most recently, he was an editor of the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It and director of the premiere episode of Dear … for Apple TV+, which focused on the impact of Lee’s 1987 film School Daze.ĮSPN, via its flagship 30 for 30 franchise, has specialized in in-depth portraits of athletes, with the bar being set by 2020’s The Last Dance, the story of Michael Jordan’s final season in the NBA. While Jeter had wanted Lee to direct, the filmmaker was juggling a few other projects, so he decided to steer Jeter to his protégé, who had once been his film student at NYU before going on to climb the ladder in the editorial department of several Lee projects.
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