Word: marlins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...father, Greg Hemingway, a short, oily, muscular man by her resentful description, was a brooding depressive, mostly absent, who tried desperately to be an outdoor guy like Ernest. Tried to be a father, at their first meeting in 10 years, when he took the 16-year-old Lorian marlin fishing off Bimini, lost his nerve and lost a great fish. She didn't know him, she writes, and wasn't able to comfort him, or help him laugh it off, or pretend that the failure was O.K. She certainly did not understand what became apparent later, that Greg's real...
...think besides the fact that Marlin wasblack, it was a more diverse group on the whole,"Kelly said. "The attack was based one something hedidn't do. It's the whole stereotype: he's black;they all look alike; they must all act alike...
...water created by the south-moving ripples created a heat wave that sent residents of Santiago flocking to nearby beaches in the middle of winter, while the north-moving waves triggered a sharp rise in ocean temperatures off California and Washington State, delighting sportfishermen by attracting tropical species like marlin to usually frigid waters...
...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...