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While living in Castro's Cuba, Orlando Hernandez learned some powerful capitalist lessons. Foremost among them: Keep your negotiating options open. So it is that even though the U.S. has granted the defecting baseball star -- and half-brother of Florida Marlins World Series hero Livan -- permission to enter the U.S., Orlando has declined to leave. Instead, he's remaining in the Bahamas in hopes of establishing residency, either there or some other country other than the U.S.. The payoff could be huge: If Hernandez is a U.S. resident, he would have to go through baseball's draft and negotiate...
...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...
...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...
...richest Marlin fan was no happier than one of the team's poorest fans. Miriam Hernandez, the mother Livan left behind in Cuba, can't afford a radio strong enough to pick up the broadcasts of her son's games, so she relies on a man who lives four floors below her to shout up the play-by-play. After Game 5, in which her son struck out 15 Braves to outduel Greg Maddux and win 2-1, she told the Herald, "God has touched his hands. How much I would give to be able...
...about the tale of rookie pitcher and Cuban defector, Livan Hernandez. This 22-year-old who fled his homeland just over one year ago finally achieved his dream of pitching in the Major Leagues, and then turned that dream into a fantasy. He started the season 9-0 as a starter and then set a National League Championship Series record for most strikeouts in a game with 15 Ks in Game...