Jeter's father, Dr. Charles Jeter, told the YES network that he liked the extra panache his son put on No.3,000. It was great, the father said. Everybody knows Derek is not a home run hitter. To get it with a home run, a little extra bang there, it was great.
Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873) was a U.S. senator, governor of Ohio and Supreme Court chief justice who served as the U.S. secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War (1861-65).
In the election of 1800, however, when Thomas Jefferson ran against Washington's Vice President and successor John Adams, Chase earned the ire of Jefferson's emerging Republican party. For one thing, Chase actively took to the hustings to campaign for Adams (a move rare for sitting judges even then).