Mariano Rivera

Panamanian Hall of Fame baseball player, relief pitcher · Panama · On the map · Athletes · Born 1969 · age 56

Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher for 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed "Mo" and "Sandman", he spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer for 17 seasons.

Mariano Rivera is read about 1,037 times a day, in 22 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare Claim

A life in dates

2026

Readers a day, 11 September 2026 to 9 November 2026, highest on 19 September 2026.

Read more around League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award, awarded to Freddy Peralta19 October 2026More about this, and one other was read more that weekSee the moment2019Presidential Medal of FreedomAward1969Born29 November 1969

People around Mariano

Close ties

Also in Deutsch

Career 10

ClubYears

New York Yankees1995-2013

Columbus Clippers1995

Columbus Clippers1994

Tampa Tarpons1994

Albany-Colonie Yankees1994

Greensboro Grasshoppers1993

Gulf Coast League Yankees1993

Fort Lauderdale Yankees1992

Greensboro Grasshoppers1991

Gulf Coast League Yankees1990

Media & music

Photos 12

Rivera was raised in the Panamanian fishing village of Puerto Caimito.

Rivera with his fellow Core Four teammates in 2015 (from left to right: Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, Rivera, and Derek Jeter). All four made their major league debuts for the Yankees in 1995.

Rivera in September 1999

Rivera (front, second from right) and Yankee teammates from the 2000 World Series champion team pose with US President George W. Bush during a White House visit

Rivera pitching in September 2005

Rivera pitching on May 23, 2006

Rivera warming up in June 2007

Awards

Presidential Medal of Freedom, Donald Trump2019

Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award

Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award

Rolaids Relief Man Award

Babe Ruth Award

League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award

World Series Most Valuable Player Award

Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award

Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award

Major League Baseball Reliever of the Year Award

About this person

A 13-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, he is MLB's career leader in saves (652) and games finished (952). Rivera won five American League (AL) Rolaids Relief Man Awards and three Delivery Man of the Year Awards, and he finished in the top three in voting for the AL Cy Young Award four times. In 2019, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, and is to date the only player ever to be elected unanimously by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).

Country

Panama