NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 17: 2019 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee and former New York Yankee Mariano Rivera acknowledges the crowd as he stands next to his Hall of Fame plaque during a ceremony in his honor before a game between the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium on August 17, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
One ex-Hall of Fame voter now wishes Yankees closer Mariano Rivera hadn’t gone in unanimously. OK?
Yankees fans were one vote short in 2020 of celebrating unanimous Baseball Hall of Fame elections in consecutive years, with Derek Jeter losing the support of a singular writer after Mariano Rivera broke the mold and entered unabated in ’19.