It might be said that no baseball reliever ever affected a team as Mariano Rivera had on the New York Yankees. The Hall of Famer was the first player to be inducted in the Hall with a 100% vote the first time his name was presented. The boy in Panama that used a stick for a bat and a crushed milk carton for a glove would go on to be the greatest baseball closer of all time.
Mariano Rivera Girón was born in Panama City, Panama, on November 29, 1969. He lived in a two-room shack with a tin roof.