Monday, July 30, 2018
If Mariano Rivera isn’t a Hall of Famer, then there’s no reason to have the place-Anthony Rieber, Newsday, 7/29/18
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7/29/18, "Cooperstown draws over 50,000, but Mariano Rivera (2019) and Derek Jeter (2020) will shatter that," Newsday, Anthony Rieber
"Here are Rivera’s numbers in the postseason: 96 appearances, 8-1 record, 0.70 ERA, 42 saves. Five rings. Game over.
“Do you think relievers belong in the Hall of Fame?” a fan asked me the other day.
The question not only seemed from another time, but from another planet.
If Rivera isn’t a Hall of Famer, then there’s no reason to have the place."...
Added:
"“He was the best,’’ [Chipper] Jones said, “95-mile-per-hour chain saws. It was funny, he would come into games and we would start setting the over/under at three or four bats, how many he would break in the inning. In one World Series game he broke three of [Ryan] Klesko’s bats in one at-bat.”"...
7/29/18, "Hall of Famers talk Mariano Rivera, who will soon join them," NY Post, Kevin Kernan
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7/29/18, "Cooperstown draws over 50,000, but Mariano Rivera (2019) and Derek Jeter (2020) will shatter that," Newsday, Anthony Rieber
"Here are Rivera’s numbers in the postseason: 96 appearances, 8-1 record, 0.70 ERA, 42 saves. Five rings. Game over.
“Do you think relievers belong in the Hall of Fame?” a fan asked me the other day.
The question not only seemed from another time, but from another planet.
If Rivera isn’t a Hall of Famer, then there’s no reason to have the place."...
Added:
"“He was the best,’’ [Chipper] Jones said, “95-mile-per-hour chain saws. It was funny, he would come into games and we would start setting the over/under at three or four bats, how many he would break in the inning. In one World Series game he broke three of [Ryan] Klesko’s bats in one at-bat.”"...
7/29/18, "Hall of Famers talk Mariano Rivera, who will soon join them," NY Post, Kevin Kernan
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