Derek and Hannah Jeter are expecting a baby girl

NEW YORK (ABC) — In a new essay for the Player’s Tribune, Hannah Jeter opens up about “The Derek I Know,” while writing about her husband and soon-to-be father of her child, a baby girl.

This understanding of Jeter’s legacy is something that is on Hannah’s mind as she and her husband are now “pregnant with our first child … looking to the future.”

In the middle of the article, Jeter shares a picture of the baseball legend, holding pink balloons to signify the daughter they are expecting.

“He already has a name in mind — he’s set on it. We’ll see,” she adds. “Whatever her name is, I know she’ll run circles around him … They’re going to be born into such an extraordinary situation. They’re going to have to be some strong little people. We don’t want them to be defined by their dad’s name — for them, we want him to just be ‘Dad.’ That will be the piece of him they’ll have that the rest of the world doesn’t.”

But there is “some sadness,” she admits, that their children won’t know the sports icon firsthand at games, because he’s now retired and the Yankees will retire his jersey later this year.

“We can show them videos, and photos, and memorabilia … But I know it won’t be quite the same … You had to be there,” she writes. “We’ll let them know that they are strong and smart, and that they can do anything they put their minds to. I hope they’ll be honest like their father. I hope they’ll be stubborn like me. I hope that they know what they want and won’t settle for less.”

Though she wants her children to know all aspects of their father’s life, she closes with, “if they want to play baseball, well, we’re gonna have a little talk first.”