that proved to be the difference in tight games.

"From the time I was kid, my dream was always very vivid and it never changed: I was going to be the shortstop for the NY Yankees. It started as an empty canvas more than 20 years ago, and now that I look at it, it's almost complete. In a million years, I wouldn't have believed just how beautiful it would become."

Playing his entire career with the Yankees, Jeter is the franchise's' all-time career leader in hits, with 3,316, and at bats, with 10,614. He has tallied more than 200 hits in seven different season, most recently in 2012, with 216.

We imagine clubhouses around the major leagues are silently thanking Jeter for his early warning, so they can prepare theGrand Rapids and its surrounding suburbs led much of the state's growth last year with the West Michigan city surpassing the 200,000 population mark for the first time in the yearly U.S. Census Bureau estimates.

The figures released Thursday show Grand Rapids' population was 200,217 as of last summer, an increase of 1,135 residents. And its surrounding communities saw significant gains, including Algoma, Byron, Allendale, Georgetown and Grand Rapids townships.

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"The city of Grand Rapids is very healthy in terms of its trajectory," said Aaron Renn, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has compared it with other mid-sized Midwestern cities. "It's really a region that is doing well."

The metro Grand Rapids area has nearly 1.07 million residents, gaining