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A Star Like No Other: Why Ichiro Suzuki Seems Destined to Join Mariano Rivera in Hall of Fame Immortality
Ichiro Suzuki—just his name brings a smile to baseball fans. This legend, born on October 22, 1973, in Kasugai, Japan, broke ...
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Unanimous Baseball Hall of Fame inductees: Ichiro falls one vote short of joining Mariano Rivera in MLB history
The Japanese outfielder is one of three players ... but there is only one that was a unanimous selection - Mariano Rivera. All 425 ballots that were submitted in 2019 included the legendary ...
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Connecticut High School Football Player Dies After Medical Emergency at Practice: 'The Most Kind-Hearted Boy'
Elijah-Jay Mariano Rivera, who was known as "Big Tex" to his teammates, had recently moved back to the area from Fort Worth, Texas Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...
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Columnist who said he wouldn’t submit a HOF ballot because he wouldn’t vote for Mariano Rivera wound up voting for Rivera
Tonight Mariano Rivera became the first unanimous Hall of Fame inductee, ending a particularly frustrating, seemingly self-perpetuating media narrative. For decades, baseball writers would ...