"This Rivera guy, we don't want to face him anymore...

"He needs to go to a higher league. I don't know where that league is. He should be banned from baseball. He should be illegal." Spoken by Tom Kelly, then manager of the Twins. Published in Joel Sherman's book, "Birth of a Dynasty." Much of interest in the book, including that Bob Wickman was peeved in 1996 that Mariano was getting more work & he was getting less. Wickman tried to convince people that Rivera would never last, that he only had 1 pitch, & his physique wasn't bulky enough.

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