Every time an undeniably great baseball player retires -- the latest being Mariano Rivera -- there will be a handful of people who will wonder:Is he finally the one? Will he become the first unanimous Hall of Famer? In a way, it’s a bizarre concept. How could there have never been a unanimous Hall of Famer? I don’t know a single person who does not consider Mariano Rivera a Hall of Famer. You could invent cockamamie arguments against Rivera if you want -- he wasn’t effective as a starter briefly at the start of his career, one inning closers are vastly overrated, whatever -- but that’s just like a thought exercise. Everybody willing to look at his career with even the slightest bit of objectivity thinks Mariano Rivera should get elected into the Hall of Fame.
Unanimous Hall of Famers
Every time an undeniably great baseball player retires -- the latest being Mariano Rivera -- there will be a handful of people who will wonder:Is he finally the one? Will he become the first unanimous Hall of Famer? In a way, it’s a bizarre concept. How could there have never been a unanimous Hall of Famer? I don’t know a single person who does not consider Mariano Rivera a Hall of Famer. You could invent cockamamie arguments against Rivera if you want -- he wasn’t effective as a starter briefly at the start of his career, one inning closers are vastly overrated, whatever -- but that’s just like a thought exercise. Everybody willing to look at his career with even the slightest bit of objectivity thinks Mariano Rivera should get elected into the Hall of Fame.
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