It Could Be Worse: You Could Have Gotten A Remainder Copy Of The Latest Zuckerman Novel

Nothing says "thanks for sucking it" like an autographed baseball:

Yankee star Derek Jeter, one of New York's most eligible hunks since his split with longtime gal pal Minka Kelly, is bedding a bevy of beauties in his Trump World Tower bachelor pad — and then coldly sending them home alone with gift baskets of autographed memorabilia.

The Yank captain's wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am kiss-offs came to light when he mistakenly pulled the stunt twice on the same woman — forgetting she had been an earlier conquest, a pal told The Post.

"Derek has girls stay with him at his apartment in New York, and then he gets them a car to take them home the next day. Waiting in his car is a gift basket containing signed Jeter memorabilia, usually a signed baseball," the friend dished.

I will never look at my signed Jeter baseball the same way again.

The Philip Roth anecdote comes courtesy of Nora Ephron, by the way, who reported it second hand, albeit in a book.