On the very day that the greatest relief pitcher in baseball history, the New York Yankees’ Mariano Rivera, a devout Christian and a staunch supporter of the state of Israel, became the first player who was ever unanimously chosen to be inducted to the Hall of Fame, The Daily Beast ran an article attacking him, writing:
… over the past three years, he’s also served at the pleasure of a racist president, taken part in thinly veiled propaganda on behalf of a far-right government in Israel, and gotten chummy with outright bigots and apocalyptic loons. None of this will be inscribed on his Hall of Fame plaque. It should, even if much of the sports world would very much like to pretend none of it exists.
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