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New York Yankees Mariano Rivera 42 Hof Hall Of Fame 2019 Being The First Player Shirt! An ineffable joy billowed in my chest every time the first strains of “Enter Sandman” reverberated throughout Yankee Stadium, and the crowd of 30,000, 40,000 or 45,000 rose as one, knowing they were about to get the privilege of watching the man who is universally acknowledged as the best ever to perform his job on a baseball field go to work. It would be one thing if our acknowledgment of Mariano Rivera had to be grudging in some way.

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Fespite his brilliance, he was in some way a lout, a boor, or garden variety jerk, if he’d ever cursed out a reporter for asking a question, or been caught in some off the field embarrassment. New York Yankees Mariano Rivera 42 Hof Hall Of Fame 2019 Being The First Player Shirt! If that had been true, some baseball writer would have found an excuse to leave Mo off his Hall of Fame ballot, despite the insurmountable evidence of his immortality. Instead, as great a man as he was on the baseball field, Mariano Rivera was an even greater man off the field. Humble, generous, loving of teammates and fans alike, a man of deep and abiding faith, Mariano was, and is, essentially, what we all dream baseball players, and athletes in general should be like.

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This, as much as his accomplishments on the field, is why he is the first man unanimously elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. Obviously, others before Mo have deserved such an honor. New York Yankees Mariano Rivera 42 Hof Hall Of Fame 2019 Being The First Player Shirt and eleven men inexplicably left Babe Ruth off their HOF ballots, and Ruth is the main reason baseball survived the Black Sox scandal. Joe Dimaggio, Ted Willaims, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente, Ken Griffey, Jr., any of them would have been fitting candidates to achieve unanimous consent, but Mo is the first to receive the honor, and no one could be more deserving.