The captain6/5/2023 ![]() For that stretch, “The Captain” works better as an intro to a dynasty, a primer on a dominant half-decade run that minted Jeter as a star in the Bronx and far beyond. The stretch of “The Captain” covering the first five years of his career takes up almost half of the overall series. In a weird way, an early liability in the series is that Derek Jeter did win a lot. Aside from the show’s framing device of starting off each episode with snippets of his farewell 2014 game at Yankee Stadium, the rest of the series follows a roughly chronological recounting of the twenty years between being drafted and retiring. In the vein of other recent sports docs produced by ESPN and others, Jeter is the main attraction here, offering his direct-to-camera perspective on his life in a handful of different interview locations. ‘Barry’ Rewrites Its Own History in a Fitting Finale Those are indicative of the best parts of “The Captain,” the ones that allow director Randy Wilkins to examine Jeter’s relationship with adversity, in whatever form it happens to take on. There are tiny nods to the “what if” paths his life would have gone down had a few key injuries and pivotal second chances never happened. The opening part of “ The Captain,” a new seven-part ESPN series on the career and times of the Hall of Fame New York Yankees shortstop, does go through the struggles of his early professional days. It’s not accurate to say that Derek Jeter never lost, despite the reputation that he fashioned for himself early in his career. That’s one of the inherent draws of sports, that for every winner, there are an equal or greater number of rivals to overcome as hurdles to the prize. From youth sports maxims of “it’s not about how you win, it’s how you lose” to professional athletes using naysayers as bulletin board material, there’s no amount of success that doesn’t also come paired with the opposite feeling. ![]() The portraits of champions are painted with failure. ![]()
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