Mariano Rivera became one of the most iconic relief pitchers in Major League Baseball history over a 19-year career spanning from 1995 to 2013. The Hall of Famer came from pretty humble beginnings ...

If the Yankees fail to make the playoffs, Mariano Rivera ... In his youth, Rivera played baseball not with proper equipment but with found objects, using discarded cardboard for gloves, tree ...

In June 1995, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera sat in a booth at a ... he would play baseball in the afternoons using a cardboard glove. He was a shortstop at the time, but when he was asked to ...

Former Yankees hurler Mariano Rivera will take his rightful place ... the culmination of a journey that began with a cardboard glove on the makeshift diamonds of a tiny fishing village in Panama.

a fishing village known mainly as the boyhood home of Mariano Rivera. “I was raised in humble beginnings,” he said. “My baseball glove was cardboard. My baseball bat was a tree branch.” ...

President Trump on Monday awarded the Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — to Mariano Rivera ... he played as a kid with a cardboard glove, a bat made of tree branch ...

To fully appreciate the phenomenon that was Mariano Rivera ... where he learned to play baseball with a glove made of cardboard, he elaborated: “Let me tell you where it comes from.