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kees' home pinstripes.
• Baseball's most acclaimed relief pitcher made an emotional exit in his final appearance at Yankee Stadium when Derek Jeter and Pettitte came from the dugout to remove him with two outs in the ninth inning of a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay on Thursday night.
• Rivera bawled during four minutes of a thunderous ovation from the sellout crowd 48,675.
• "It's time to go," Jeter appeared to tell his old pal when he arrived at the mound.
• Pettitte, who also is retiring when the season ends Sunday, gave Rivera a 30-second bear hug. Jeter followed with a 15-second embrace.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Friday, Sept. 27, the 270th day of 2013. There are 95 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Sept. 27, 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced in a nationally broadcast address that he was eliminating all U.S. battlefield nuclear weapons and called on the Soviet Union to match the gesture.
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• On this date:
• In 1540, Pope Paul III issued a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as a religious order.
• In 1779, John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain.
• In 1854, the first great disaster involving an Atlantic Ocean passenger vessel occurred when the steamship SS Arctic sank off Newfoundland; of the more than 400 people on board, only 86 survived.
• In 1928, the United States said it was recognizing the Nationalist Chinese government.
• In 1939, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II.
• In 1941, on "Liberty Fleet Day," the United States launched 14 rapidly built military cargo vessels, including the first Liberty ship, the SS Patrick Henry, which was personally launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Baltimore.
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