Mariano Rivera’s Hall of Fame celebration tour concluded with a pre-game ceremony, and first pitch, Saturday at Yankee Stadium. It capped off a summer in which the greatest closer of all-time hit an inside-the-park home run on Old Timers’ Day, had a parade thrown in his honor in New Rochelle, N.Y., and headlined a stacked Cooperstown class as the Hall’s first-ever unanimous inductee.
“It has been busy, but it has been something special,” Rivera said as the Yankees faced the Indians. “To end up in Cooperstown with the blessing to be 100 percent unanimous, it’s like the cherry on top.