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Mariano Rivera is now immortalized in bus form

Since 2010, Gray Line Tours has been recognizing celebrities and their reach to fans with its "Ride of Fame," a double-decker tour bus designed to give fans a special connection with these celebrities when they visit New York City.

On Friday, Gray Line introduced another mobile monument in honor of Mariano Rivera. The bus was permanently inscribed with Rivera graphics and included a personal seat for the iconic Yankee closer. Now when tourists come to New York they can ride around town in a double-decker bus that is a shrine to Mariano, not that Mo will be forgotten around Manhattan anytime soon.

As always, Rivera was incredibly gracious and accepting of the honor. "Thank you to Gray Line for a bus like this. It's wonderful. It is great for me and my family, and it will be great to see myself on one of these things!"

Rivera is not the first Yankee great to be honored by Gray Line. Mo joins Reggie Jackson and Roger Maris as other "Ride of Fame" inductees. 

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