DEREK JETER IS THE LATEST VICTIM OF THE HOT & HORNY HOSTESS! WE CAN SEE HOW TIGER GOT IN TROUBLE!

The ladies of New York City go crazy over Derek Jeter - almost literally.
One in particular - a hostess from Nino's Positano at 47th and Second - got so worked up over the Yankee captain that she caused some major drama outside his Tudor City pad late Sunday night.

An insider dishes that the star shortstop ordered in from the Italian eatery - where he's a regular - and the very thought of him caused the fairly new employee to go into a tizzy.

"She started freaking out on the phone when she realized who it was," the insider said, "and basically begged the delivery guy to take her with him."

The delivery guy, who looked less than comfortable with the request, offered to let the lass come along and wait outside the building, but not go upstairs.

"Jeter is a very important customer to [the restaurant's owner] Nino Selimaj," the insider says. "He even named a chicken entree after Derek and has a special private table in the back that's available to him whenever he wants it. The kid knew better than to upset Derek - and Nino for that matter - by bringing a crazed fan do his doorstep."

But the hostess didn't give him much of a choice: Once outside the building, we hear, she grabbed the food and tried to charm her way inside, begging the doorman to let her go up and meet Jeter with his dinner.

"I'm his No. 1 fan," she yelled.

Several tenants in Jeter's posh lobby stopped to look at the woman, who was practically pleading at that point.

But her cryin' didn't work: Spies say the doorman immediately escorted her out of the building and delivered Jeter's cuisine to his door personally.

What became of the overzealous hostess? When Nino himself got wind of the situation later in the evening, he promptly had her fired.

"He can't risk that kind of crazed behavior around his celebrity customers," the insider said, adding that she had been his favorite hostess before Sunday night's incident.

But the famed restaurateur isn't wasting any time mourning the down-sizing of his staff. Insists Nino: "I'll take Jeter over that bimbo any day."