www.thetribune.net www.thetribune.net TRIBUNE Pinecrest Phone: 305-669-7355 Phone: 305-669-7355 ONE ONE OFOFMIAMI’S MIAMI’S COMMUNITYNEWSPAPERS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS APRIL 15 - 28, 2019 Why baseball matters in Miami Publisher BY GRANT MILLER Baseball was...
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www.thetribune.net www.thetribune.net TRIBUNE Pinecrest Phone: 305-669-7355 Phone: 305-669-7355 ONE ONE OFOFMIAMI’S MIAMI’S COMMUNITYNEWSPAPERS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS APRIL 15 - 28, 2019 Why baseball matters in Miami Publisher BY GRANT MILLER Baseball was born in America after the battlefields Westminster High School band plays at Pearl Harbor of the Civil War gone quiet. We stole the outline of the game from the British and Irish, taking their game of rounders and making it our own. Miami grew from a spring training hub for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Baltimore Orioles to finally getting a team of our own in 1993. The initial seasons were heady. In four short years, the Florida Marlins took a wild card slot in the National League pennant race to the World Series where the Fish beat the Cleve- land Indians in dramatic fashion. The relationship between the Marlins and Miami has been up and down ever since that championship season. Wayne Huizenga, Blockbuster Video founder and cranky bil-
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