Nancy Newman is an Emmy-award winning sports journalist and studio anchor for YES Network. In addition to covering the Brooklyn Nets, she has won awards for her coverage of the New York Yankees, who celebrated the entrance of five-time World Series champion Derek Jeter into the Baseball Hall of Fame in September 2021. Among her duties Newman hosts the Official Magazine Program of the New York Yankees “Yankees Magazine” and the shows’ cameras had a front row seat to all the Major League Baseball HOF Induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, NY. The event and coverage was a spectacular coronation of Number 2, “The Captain”.
Derek Jeter was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020 in an almost unanimous vote — all but one of the voting sportswriters voted for him. Jeter would later make a jibe about the one vote against him, saying “Thank you to the baseball writers — all but one of you — who voted for me.” The induction day ceremony had been initially delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting audience size and was even slated to be a television-only event until it was rescheduled in September.
The ceremony was attended by fans who gave the all-time Yankees hit leader a standing ovation before sitting down to watch a video marking the passing of 10 Hall-of-Famers who had died in the 26 months since the last induction day. Fans expressed relief at finally being able to celebrate after such a long wait and welcomed Jeter ,as well as Larry Walker, Ted Simmons, and the late Marvin Miller.
