The threshold has finally been reached: We have our first unanimous Hall of Fame selection, with Mariano Rivera, the best closer in baseball history and, perhaps just as important, one of the most beloved baseball players of the last 50 years (even Red Sox fans like him!), receiving every single vote of the 425 cast.
While an argument could be made that a unanimous selection being made now for the first time in history says more about our current monolith (and transparency-obsessed) cultural moment than it does necessarily about Rivera himself -- nobody dared to be the one person to vote against Rivera -- we can all agree it couldn't happen to a better guy.