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.

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.

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 ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — In the end, Mariano Rivera closed with a love letter ... where the “leather” gloves were made of cardboard milk boxes. He loved baseball (it certainly loved him back).

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.” ...

Ahead of Rivera’s induction into the Hall ... days working on fishing boats with his father, who used a cardboard box for his first glove and who still considers it a duty to play with ...