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Mariano Rivera tells his story for the first time: the championships, the bosses (including the Boss), the rivalries, the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States, and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics. The twelve-time All-Star will discuss what it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rivera, Mariano, 1969-
Other Authors: Coffey, Wayne R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Little Brown & Co., 2014.
Subjects:
Rivera, Mariano, > 1969-
Relief pitchers (Baseball) > United States > Biography.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
Pitching (Baseball)
Baseball players > Panama > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Fish and consequences
  • Water torture
  • Two buses, nine pitches
  • Gulf Coast revelation
  • Worst cut
  • The call
  • Relief and belief
  • Shades of '27
  • Spirit and summit
  • New York, New York
  • The day the world changed
  • Trophy
  • Plans
  • Losses
  • Cheers and jeers
  • Count me out
  • Closing time
  • New digs and old feelings
  • Passages
  • Wounded knee
  • Exit Sandman
  • Epilogue: Refuge of hope.