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...Florida Marlins In just their fifth year the Marlins proved that football isn't Florida's only big-time sport. Jim Leyland's club, led by pitchers Kevin Brown and Cuban refugee Livan Hernandez, beat the powerful Braves, then outlasted the Indians to win the World Series in an extra-inning thriller. Way to go, kids...
...After that? Likely a free-agent fire sale, followed by the departure of manager Jim Leyland, who spent too many years in Pittsburgh to ever play bargain-basement baseball again...
Brown provided a good deal of that heart, winning Games 1 and 6 and battling a stomach flu in between. With a 4-run lead after six innings of the eventual clincher, Florida manager Jim Leyland tried to take the weakened Brown out of the game, but the pitcher threw a respectful fit, and Leyland acquiesced. Even when the tying run came to the plate with two outs in the ninth, Leyland kept him in there, feeling Brown deserved to be on the field when the final out was made. When Chipper Jones hit into a force for that...
...tableau last Tuesday night at Turner Field in Atlanta had a richness that had nothing to do with Huizenga's money. There was Bobby Bonilla hugging Leyland, his old Pittsburgh manager. There was rookie pitcher Livan Hernandez, the Cuban defector who was the NLCS MVP, climbing into a knot of Marlin fans in the stands and shouting two of the few English words he knows, "World Series! World Series!" And an hour after the game, there was Huizenga taking a victory lap around the bases...
This year, however, Leyland would not be denied. Reunited with Bobby Bonilla, his right fielder with those Pirate teams, Leyland returned to the city where he suffered tremendous heartbreak just five years earlier. And behind Bonilla's three-RBI game, he finally earned the one trip which has eluded him for so long...