Jeter docuseries 'The Captain' coming in '22

ESPN Films will produce a multi-part documentary series on Derek Jeter entitled “The Captain.” The series, which will premiere on ESPN and ESPN+ in 2022, will be directed by Emmy winner Randy Wilkins and executive produced by Spike Lee, among others, in conjunction with The Players’ Tribune and Major League Baseball.

The series will feature candid access to Jeter, a franchise icon for the Yankees, showing what it has meant to be "The Captain" throughout his playing days and post-playing career as an executive and team owner with the Marlins.

Jeter was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020 and will be enshrined this July after the ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic last summer. The sixth overall pick in the 1992 MLB Draft out of high school in Kalamazoo, Mich., Jeter played his entire 20-year career with the Yankees, winning five World Series titles. He won five Silver Slugger Awards, five Gold Gloves, a World Series and All-Star MVP Award, the 1996 AL Rookie of the Year Award and was a 14-time All-Star.

According to ESPN, the documentary series will contextualize Jeter as a player but also tell a “larger cultural story that explores race, family, community, rivalries and more.”