““The smile wasn’t there at the beginning. In a few of the early pictures, you can see a derisive smirk beginning to curl up on the right side of Jeter’s face, almost as though the young player had found a cocky persona and was trying it on for size. Still, he didn’t use the smirk for his first glossy publicity shots with the Yankees or the pictures on his rookie-year baseball cards. Not quite scowling—although his eyebrows angle down in a V that aims the viewer’s eye at the unsmiling center of his face—he looks … serious, I guess, in those early photographs. Unswerving. A young man with an almost childish openness about his furious drive and discipline. A young man who allowed the outward projection of his public ambitions to show on his face. By 1999,””
