July 21 will be a special day for New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera as he takes in the rightful place in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Acknowledged as the greatest closer the game has ever known, Rivera was naturally the strongest link in the chain of great closers that helped the Yankees win 40 pennants and 27 World Series. A chain that began with a man named Wilcy Moore.
Moore was a right hander who toiled in the minors for many years before finally getting his chance at the age of 30-with the “Murderers’ Row” Yankees in 1927.