Mariano Rivera Highlights

True, but if he hadn't had "Mo in the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th" the boat might be sitting in dry dock. I gratefully attribute the item about Mel's boat to a blogger/proprietor of "Mo in the 9th," which is on the MLBlogs roster. In his bio Michael Law says:

• "I just finished reading the new autobiography by beloved former Yankees pitcher and former Yankees pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre entitled "Pride and Pinstripes: The Yankees, Mets, and Surviving Life's Challenges" and in it he tells a story about how when he retired as the Yankees pitching coach a few years ago the guys that had been there for the ten years he'd been there chipped in a bought him a fishing boat that had "Mo In The 9th" painted on the back."