⚾ Vintage Graded 1993 Score Derek Jeter #489 Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint – The Score Rookie Card of the Captain of the New York Yankees, the Player Who Wore Pinstripes Through Five World Series Championships, Who Delivered “Mr. November” in Game 4 of the 2001 World Series, Who Was Named to Fourteen All-Star Rosters Across a Twenty-Year Career, and Who Was Inducted Into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020 With a Near-Unanimous First-Ballot Vote, Graded PSA 10 GEM MINT

⚾ The 1993 Score baseball card set arrived in the hobby during the transitional moment when the industry was moving away from the mass-production overprint era and beginning to identify which rookie cards from which sets would carry long-term collector significance – and Card #489 in the 1993 Score set is one of Derek Jeter's official Rookie Cards from the first year his name appeared in mainstream professional card sets, issued while he was still ascending through the Yankees' minor league system and before the New York media had begun anticipating the career that was coming. A PSA 10 GEM MINT copy of a 1993 Score Derek Jeter Rookie Card is among the rarest and most significant pieces a Jeter collector can acquire – a Hall of Famer's earliest official documentation in perfect condition, from a set produced at the dawn of the premium card era, carrying the weight of everything that came after it. This is the beginning of the record before the record was written.

⚾ Derek Jeter was born June 26, 1974, in Pequannock Township, New Jersey, and grew up as a Yankees fan in Kalamazoo, Michigan – a child who told anyone who would listen that he was going to play shortstop for the New York Yankees, a statement that became the most literal prediction in the franchise's history when the Yankees selected him sixth overall in the 1992 MLB Draft and assigned him to begin his professional career in the organization whose pinstripes he had dreamed of wearing his entire life. His ascent through the Yankees' system was accelerating exactly as this 1993 Score card was being produced and distributed, and the player who appeared on the front of this card was already being identified internally as someone different – the poise, the work ethic, the understanding of the game at its deepest level already present before a single major league at-bat.

⚾ Derek Jeter made his major league debut on May 29, 1995, and from that moment forward became the permanent shortstop of the New York Yankees, a player whose name and position became as synonymous as any in the franchise's history. He won five World Series championships – in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2009 – made fourteen All-Star rosters, accumulated 3,465 career hits with a .310 batting average, won five Gold Glove Awards at shortstop, and earned the title of Captain of the New York Yankees in 2003, becoming only the eleventh player in the franchise's history to hold that designation. In October 2001, just after midnight on November 1 in the 12th inning of Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium, he hit a walk-off home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks that gave him the nickname “Mr. November” and produced one of the most celebrated moments in postseason history. When the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted for the 2020 Hall of Fame class, Derek Jeter received votes on all but one of the ballots cast – a 99.7% recognition rate that placed him among the most universally respected players ever to be inducted. Condition: NOS.

🏅 PSA 10 GEM MINT is the highest designation Professional Sports Authenticator issues, a grade that confirms four perfectly sharp corners, printing centered within tolerance, and a card surface free of any defect. On a 1993 Score Rookie Card – a card that is over thirty years old and was produced during the transitional period before premium manufacturing – PSA 10 represents an exceptional survival condition that makes this specific example extraordinarily rare among all surviving copies. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Derek Jeter. Pequannock Township, New Jersey. New York Yankees. 1995–2014. Five-Time World Series Champion. Fourteen-Time All-Star. Captain of the New York Yankees. “Mr. November.” 3,465 Career Hits. .310 Career Average. 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame. 1993 Score #489 Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.