Jim Rivera

Manuel Joseph "Jungle Jim" Rivera (July 22, 1921 – November 13, 2017) was a professional baseball outfielder born in Brooklyn to Puerto Rican immigrants. He grew up in Spanish Harlem and spent nearly a decade at Saint Dominic's Orphanage in Blauvelt, New York. In 1944 he was convicted of attempted rape and sentenced to life in prison, where he played on the prison baseball team; the Atlanta Crackers owner secured his parole, and he was released in 1949 after five years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Rivera went on to play ten MLB seasons with the St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, and Kansas City Athletics.