Monday, April 26, 2010
The understated elegance-NY Times
"Rivera, 40, has been so good for so long that Reggie Jackson ranks him not in the category of the bullpen specialist but in the transcendent grouping of sports icons.
- “For what he does, he’s maybe the most dominant athlete other than Bill Russell that I know,” Jackson said. “But it’s also in the way he does it. Quiet. Humble. Mariano is regal, baseball royalty.”"
from NY Times article by Harvey Araton, 4/25/10, "The Understated Elegance of the Yankees' Rivera" photo NY Times, World Series game 6, 2009, Rivera enters
- The article mentions the recent launch of an ad campaign for Canali men's clothing featuring Rivera.