While I loved baseball as a kid, I can't watch it for more than 5 minutes on TV without falling asleep or sit through a whole game in person. Still this is a feel-good story and Jeter seems to be the type athlete we used to look up to as role models years ago.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The end of an era.

The perfect script.

Derek Jeter capped his Yankee Stadium farewell with a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning, the latest - and perhaps last - storybook moment of his charmed and illustrious career, to give New York a 6-5 victory Thursday night over the Baltimore Orioles.

Serenaded with adoring chants that echoed through the Bronx night, Jeter tipped his cap several times and drove in three runs. He launched an early RBI double off the left-center wall and saved the best for last, a sharp, opposite-field single to right that knocked in the winner.

''It was above and beyond anything that I've ever dreamt of,'' Jeter said. ''This was a lot of fun.''