David Cone

David Cone pitches 7 innings of no hit ball in his return

ByThis Day in Baseball

test On September 2, 1996 — After his operation in May to remove an aneurysm in his pitching arm, David Cone makes a dramatic return to the mound when he hurls seven innings of no-hit ball. Manager Joe Torre removes Cone and replaces him with Mariano Rivera gives up the opponent’s only hit, a one-out…

Herb Raybourn, the Yankee director of Latin American operations, signs amateur free-agent Mariano Rivera
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Herb Raybourn, the Yankee director of Latin American operations, signs amateur free-agent Mariano Rivera

ByThis Day in Baseball

Herb Raybourn, the Yankee director of Latin American operations, signs amateur free-agent Mariano Rivera, an athletic 20 year-old who has an effortless pitching motion, but a less than average fastball, to a modest $3,000 contract. The future all-time major league saves leader has no formal training as a pitcher, having hurled for just the first time two weeks before being scouted at the team’s tryout camp in Panama City.