SI.com is doing a feature called
"Best Baseball Players by Number". Number 42 was given to
Jackie Robinson.
But, SI.com's Bryan Armen Graham feels it should have
gone to Mo. He states that if the list was the "most important players by number", then Jackie Robinson would be the obvious choice. But, this is "best players" and he feels that Mo takes the cake:
Baseball's best No. 42 is Mariano Rivera, and as the last active player still wearing the digits due to baseball's 1997 decree, the 38-year-old right-hander need not worry about any future challenge to the distinction.
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