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Seller does not accept returns See details. See payment details. Special financing available. Any international shipping is paid in part to Pitney Bowes Inc. Learn More - opens in a new window or tab International shipping and import charges paid to Pitney Bowes Inc. In the 19 big league seasons since then, Rivera has grown in stature. He's also grown into a deeper understanding about Robinson, and what wearing the number means to him , not just to everyone else.
He says he'd consciously picked up his efforts to find out more about Robinson by the time he became the last No. Just everything. The community work. The man that he was. I always used to talk with Don Zimmer when Zimmer was here.
He played with him. Zimmer told me that Jackie took care of him, because Jackie was already established and Zimmer, he was just coming up. It was amazing. He always said to me, 'The man was generous. Not just a great ballplayer. There are countless more stories of how Robinson's influence rippled outward like that. And that influence hasn't stopped even all these years later, though Robinson died too young from a heart attack in at the age of Willie Mays?
They knew Jackie was hardheaded and they said, 'You give us two years, and we'll give all your friends a chance. Ralph Branca? He tells a story of how Robinson consoled him after he gave up the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" to Bobby Thomson in the one-game playoff that put the Giants in the World Series instead of the Dodgers. Other stories about things Robinson said are now inextricably engraved into the history of the game. How he once said, "There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
He is the best closer in history, bar none. But the serenity that Rivera has displayed all these years on the mound? That is not an act. It springs from a deep place that has little to do with baseball, and more to do with who he is, and, he would say, his devout religious faith. So when he keeps insisting with a smile that he does not expect to be sad during this, his last season, he deserves to be believed. He is, at heart, still the fisherman's son who grew up using a milk carton for a glove, a man who knows what real hard work means.
And he will not be one of those old ballplayers who sits around in retirement counting his money, telling war stories and collecting backslaps. Fame and fortune have not put his view of the world so out of scale that he seeks out only famous rich people like him.
Jackson initially planned to wear 42 in honor of Robinson, The Sporting News reported at the time, even inviting Robinson's widow, Rachel, to attend his Yankees signing. When Jackson reported to Spring Training in , however, he decided to wear No. Jackson switched to No. Rivera said he was initially given No. Priore later switched Rivera to 42, which the pitcher would go on to wear in each of the 1, regular-season games -- plus 96 postseason contests -- he appeared in during his Hall of Fame career.
At the time, players all around the Majors were wearing the number. It had not been retired by any team other than the Dodgers, who honored Robinson by hanging up No. Sixteen other Yankees had worn the number prior to Rivera, the most notable being former All-Star second baseman Jerry Coleman, who won four World Series rings during a nine-year career in pinstripes. Righty Domingo Jean, who pitched in 10 games for the Yankees in , had been the most recent player to wear No.
Those players were grandfathered in to continue wearing it for the remainder of their careers, but it would never be assigned again once they were all retired. When Vaughn retired at the end of the season, Rivera was the lone 42 remaining in the Majors.
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