The closer : [my story]
Rivera, Mariano, 1969-
The closer : [my story] [my story] / - New York : Little Brown & Co., 2014. - viii, 280 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Subtitle from cover. Includes index.
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.
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's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders.
0316400734 : $28.00 9780316400732 : $28.00
2014934754
Rivera, Mariano, 1969-
Relief pitchers (Baseball)--United States--Biography.
Baseball players--United States--Biography.
Pitching (Baseball)
Baseball players--Panama--Biography.
GV865.R496 / A3 2014
796.357/092
The closer : [my story] [my story] / - New York : Little Brown & Co., 2014. - viii, 280 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Subtitle from cover. Includes index.
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.
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's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders.
0316400734 : $28.00 9780316400732 : $28.00
2014934754
Rivera, Mariano, 1969-
Relief pitchers (Baseball)--United States--Biography.
Baseball players--United States--Biography.
Pitching (Baseball)
Baseball players--Panama--Biography.
GV865.R496 / A3 2014
796.357/092