The Yankee captain's split-level childhood home, where Jeter grew up and developed his double-play throwing arm on the side of the house, is being put up for sale by the owners for $140,000.
The owner of the house, Kelly Mohamed, paid $110,000 for the modest blue and gray house in 2001. The supermarket clerk has lived at 2415 Cumberland St. in the quiet middle-class neighborhood with her husband, Mikael, since then. It will be going on the market in a matter of weeks, she told The New York Post.
Besides being able to walk in the same backyard that Jeter played catch with his dad, Charles, it seems like a good investment too.
"I loved it from the first time I walked through the door, but I want something warm now; we're moving to Georgia," Kelly said.
The quaint house still has the garage where the future Hall-of-Famer worked on his sweet swing with a contraption his father built.
The 2,000-square-foot structure is a far cry from Jeter's current $8 million, 31,000 square-foot water-front Tampa mansion or his Trump Tower apartment with sweeping views of Manhattan.
The house borders Kalamazoo Central High School's baseball field which was only a jump over a chain-link fence away from where baseball scouts sized up his skills before the Yankees signed the young shortstop to an $800,000 contract.
Someone might buy the house just to say they slept in the same bedroom as Derek Jeter but not the current owners— even though Jeter already had four World Series Championships under his belt by the time they purchased it.
"The people that sold us the house were really excited to tell us that he had lived here as a boy," said Kelly.
"Honestly, at the time, we didn't even know who he was."
Her husband was just as non-starstruck.
"I'm more of a football fan," said Mikael. "49ers all the way!"
You mean it hasn't been designated as a National Landmark???
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