Mariano Rivera
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Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for 19 seasons in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed "Mo" and "S
Rivera with the New York Yankees in 2007
Rivera was raised in the Panamanian fishing village of Puerto Caimito.
Rivera with his fellow Core Four teammates in 2015 (from left to right: Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Rivera, and Derek Jeter). All four made their major league debuts for the Yankees in 1995.
Rivera in 1997
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The "Core Four" are former New York Yankees baseball players Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera. Each member of the Core Four was a key contributor to the Yankees' late-1990s
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…decade's end, ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick called Rivera the most valuable major league pitcher of the previous 10 years. In 2010, Rivera and two of his "Core Four" teammates, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada, became the first trio in any of the four major sports leagues in North America (MLB, NFL, NBA, or NHL) to…
Andy Pettitte became the first of the Core Four to retire in 2011, but unretired in 2012.
Three members of the Core Four – Posada (left), Rivera (middle), and Jeter (right) – played together for 17 consecutive years from 1995 to 2011, the longest in North American professional sports.
Posada (left) and Rivera (right) shaking hands after the end of a game in 2009.