Five years ago today, remember?
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the championship hailed by Sports Illustrated as "the most amazing season in history."
On this date in 2004, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years. Bells rang throughout New England as generations of Sox fans celebrated as one.
Where has the time gone?
Chances are, you know exactly where you were as Keith Foulke threw the ball to Doug Mientkiewicz to end the game -- and the overblown "Curse of the Bambino."
The Sox were champs, and remained the toast of the town over the coming days, weeks and months.
That winter, writers speculated that the long-awaited championship ultimately might have a negative effect on the team's fan base.
After all, Red Sox Nation was created on the unyielding pursuit of a decades-old quest. The quest was over, the team was the best in the game. How would Sox fans ever identify themselves?
Five years later, it's clear that winning didn't drain Boston fans of their passion for baseball. The Sox have sold out 550 consecutive games, the longest such streak in baseball history.
But a fan base that once embraced its team's weaknesses as part of a flawed identity is now much more demanding.
This month, the Sox made the postseason for the sixth time in seven years, the best run of playoff appearances in franchise history. Three losses to the Angels later, Sox fans were calling radio stations to talk about the dramatic overhaul needed to get the team back on track.
There was a time when playing October baseball was enough. Clearly, 2004 changed all that.
As the 2009 season ended, there were only four members of that incredible band of self-proclaimed "idiots" left on the roster. There is a very strong chance the core group will be whittled down by the start of 2010.
* Jason Varitek may have played his final game with the Sox, his offensive skills eroding as we see time catching up with the captain. For the fourth straight year, he hit lower than .260. He did not make an appearance in the AL division series against the Angels. For the first time, the Sox have an alternative behind the plate; Victor Martinez will be the starting catcher next year. Varitek may be back, but he will be no more than a backup.
* David Ortiz went through the most trying season of his career. The man once called "The Greatest Clutch Hitter in Red Sox History" hit a mere .238 and had the lowest on-base percentage plus slugging percentage of his Red Sox career.
He was identified as a user of performance-enhancing drugs and had a contentious year with the media. His power numbers improved dramatically as the year went on, but he was once again anemic in the playoffs. With one year left on his contract, you certainly don't have to strain to see the end of Big Papi's career with Boston.
* Tim Wakefield just underwent surgery for his ailing back. By all accounts, the operation went well and he will return next season.
That said, the man who was once the most durable pitcher in the organization was left off the division series roster because of injury for the third straight year.
Wakefield, 43, is closing in on the franchise record of 192 wins, but the 17 wins he needs to tie Cy Young and Roger Clemens will be harder to come by. Can he withstand two more seasons? If so, he'll finish his career with more wins than anyone to wear the Red Sox uniform.
* Kevin Youkilis made his major league debut in 2004 and recorded two at-bats in that fabled postseason. Just a year removed from being dubbed "The Greek God of Walks," Youkilis was on the World Series roster, though he did not play against the Cardinals.
Since then, he has transformed himself into one of the game's best hitters, an MVP candidate who has sacrificed on-base percentage for better slugging numbers. Since Manny Ramirez was sent to the Dodgers, he has been the team's cleanup...
hitter. He should call Fenway Park home for years to come.
So, on the eve of the Yankees' return to the Fall Classic for the first time in six years, take a moment to toast a team we will never forget.
Five years ago tonight, the Red Sox beat all odds and returned home from St. Louis to a heroes' welcome. Baseball around here hasn't been the same since.
(c) 2009 by The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. All rights reserved.
Now Angels will see if home is where wins are
ANAHEIM, Calif. --- No wind chill factor here. No playing with ear flaps and ski masks. If Mike Scioscia lumbers onto the field to debate a call with the second base umpire, it will not look like two Eskimos arguing.
The American League Championship Series has moved to where conditions are more suited for baseball and less the Iditarod.
"Trust me, there's nothing but positive energy going on in here," Torii Hunter said from the Los Angeles clubhouse on a lovely Sunday. "Over there (in New York's), too, I'm pretty sure."
Maybe getting back to summer can save the Angels. Maybe.
"Start all over," Scioscia said of the series, with the Yankees in control, 2-0. Fine, fine. But the Yankees probably won't be giving those victories back.
COMEBACK? Angels return home down 0-2
The two purported best teams in the American League committed eight errors in the first two games at Yankee Stadium. Some were more understandable than others. The one by Maicer Izturus that decided Game 2 in the wee hours of Sunday morning -- trying an impossible to throw to second when he had an easy out at first -- was brain freeze, not body freeze.
Still, fielding a baseball in those conditions must have been like trying to backhand a porcupine.
"Now cold weather is no excuse," Hunter said. "So let's see what happens."
Besides, he noted, the climate was awful for both teams in New York. Hunter said he realized how cold it was when he could see even Derek Jeter -- quintessential New Yorker -- was freezing.
Lots of things better get better here for the Angels. Quickly. "The momentum of this series can swing in a heartbeat," Scioscia said, but is that whistling by the Yankees champagne stash?
The Angels have much to get over by Monday. Game 2, there for the taking so many times with 16 runners left on base, was a crusher. After five hours of increasingly tense baseball, defeat came with an error. The language had to be bluer than the noses.
This a team renowned for the way it goes about its business. Angels baseball means sound defense, opportunistic offense, making every chance count.
So far, this hasn't been it.
"We've beaten ourselves," Hunter said.
Los Angeles hitters are 4-for-18 with runners in scoring position so far. You could call that fatal, except New York's hitters are 3-for-20.
The Yankees find a way, nevertheless. They have not yet lost a postseason game. They already have two walk-off victories. Alex Rodriguez has three home runs, and all of them either tied the game or put them in the lead, as he threatens to take over October lock, stock and Halloween.
On Monday, they'll send out Andy Pettitte, an October-hardened pitcher who has won 15 postseason games, tied with John Smoltz for the most ever.
"It doesn't get any easier, huh?" Hunter said.
Relentless pressure is a Yankee trademark. There is not just all that store-bought talent, but the aura of taking advantage of every mistake. It makes an opponent begin to think it can afford no wrong, or imperfection. The game is hard enough to play, especially in the ambience of a meat locker.
"I think you can let that history get in your mind," Hunter said. "You look at the payroll, at Yankee Stadium. You try to do too much."
So now what for the Angels?
"We've got to kind of calm it down a little bit."
They'd better do it by Monday.
"It's not who you're playing or where you're playing," Scioscia said. "It's how you're playing the game."
"I just have to leave the last two games in the past," said Bobby Abreu, 0-for-9 in the series. "Tomorrow is going to be a different day."
Different day, different ballpark, most definitely different weather. But the same opponent. There might be the problem.
(c) 2007 USA TODAY.
Wagner may be leaning toward retirement
Veteran lefty 15 saves shy of attaining 400 for his career.
Billy Wagner might be leaning toward choosing retirement over closing games next season, according to a report in the New York Post.
On Sunday, Wagner pitched two-thirds of an inning for the Red Sox in Boston's 7-6 loss to the Angels in the decisive Game 3 of the American League Division Series. In the wake of that defeat, the veteran left-hander indicated that he plans to retire.
"Why wouldn't I?" Wagner told the newspaper. "I've got nothing else to [accomplish]."
Wagner's agent, Bean Stringfellow, told MLB.com on Tuesday that he hadn't heard about retirement plans from Wagner.
"He has given me no such indication. He and his family will sit down and discuss," Stringfellow wrote in a text message.
Wagner, 38, is 15 saves shy of becoming only the fifth player in Major League history to notch 400 for his career -- an exclusive list that includes Trevor Hoffman (591), Mariano Rivera (526), Lee Smith (478) and John Franco (424). Among left-handed pitchers, only Franco has more career saves than the 385 compiled by Wagner over 15 seasons.
Reaching 400 saves does not seem to be a priority for Wagner.
"That's just dust in the wind," he was quoted as saying.
This past season, following an 11-month recovery from Tommy John ligament-replacement surgery on his left elbow, Wagner posted a 1.72 ERA over 17 games between stints with the Mets and Red Sox. After being claimed off waivers by Boston in August, Wagne indicated an interest in pursuing a closer's role near his Virginia home for 2010, but he told the Post that he would not look for a job this offseason.
"I don't plan on talking to nobody," he said.
The Red Sox have agreed not to pick up the $8.8 million option included in Wagner's contract for next season, meaning that he will be eligible to test the free-agent market. A source told the Post that Wagner may just need time to cool off after Boston's postseason exit, but noted that Wagner is making family his top priority in deciding whether to retire or pitch in 2010.
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Royals follow fast start with faster fall
KANSAS CITY, Mo. --- The rotation was strong, the bullpen even better. The cache of young hitters would knock balls all over the spectacularly renovated stadium, the bench multitalented and deep.
Finally, after all those losing seasons, this was the year the Kansas City Royals were supposed to turn it around.
It seemed to be true -- at least for the first month of the season.
Baseball buzzed over Zackmania as the Royals bolted to the AL Central lead and Zack Greinke put up all those scoreless innings, creating an atmosphere at Kauffman Stadium that had been missing since George Brett kissed home plate in his final home game.
Boy, did the air fizz out of the balloon in a hurry.
Plagued by injuries, weak hitting, a porous defense and an implode-on-any-pitch bullpen, the Royals turned a fantastic start into another predictable flop. Instead of a step forward, Kansas City took 10 back from the previous season to 65-97 -- another last-place finish in the American League Central and a full 21 games out of the lead.
"This is not the baseball team we left spring training with," general manager Dayton Moore said earlier in the season. "We all felt very good about our team and our ability to compete in the Central. Some people projected us to win the Central. We felt we would be a lot better."
The problems were rooted in injuries.
Third baseman Alex Gordon, ready for a breakout year, had hip surgery in April and missed three months. He wasn't the same when he returned, earning a trip back to the minors.
Right fielder Jose Guillen spent time on the DL early in the season and went out for the year late with a knee injury suffered while trying to put on a shin guard. He wasn't effective when healthy, hitting .242 with nine homers and 40 RBIs in 81 games.
Center fielder Coco Crisp and shortstop Mike Aviles were lost to season-ending injuries. All-Star closer Joakim Soria also spent time on the DL, as did starters Gil Meche, Kyle Davies and Brian Bannister.
Half the team, it seemed, was hurt at one point or another.
"Barring injuries that we had this year, I thought we were going to do a lot more than what we did," first baseman Mike Jacobs said. "You don't want to say, 'if guys wouldn't have got hurt this would have happened,' but it has a lot to do with this. We've got some good guys, a talented group."
There were a few bright spots.
Billy Butler continued his development as a big-league hitter. He hit .301, had 21 homers and 93 RBIs, and became the seventh player in major league history to hit 50 doubles in a season before turning 24.
Second baseman Alberto Callaspo offset some of his defensive limitations with a good year at the plate, hitting .300 with 11 homers after having none the first 441 at-bats, the longest stretch to open a career. Right-hander Robinson Tejeda proved to be a reliable reliever and spot starter, posting a 3.41 ERA.
Then there was Greinke.
A 13-game winner last season, the right-hander had one of the best seasons in franchise history, winning 16 games and posting a baseball-best 2.16 ERA.
Greinke opened the season by not allowing a run his first 29 2-3 innings. He allowed one run or less in 17 of his 33 starts overall and probably should have won more than 20 games, but the Royals gave him some of the worst run support in the AL and scored 13 total runs in his eight losses.
Even with a shaky final outing against the Twins, Greinke was still a favorite to win the first Cy Young Award by a Royals pitcher since David Cone in 1994.
"We knew he'd be good," Royals manager Trey Hillman said. "We felt like he would be durable. But I don't think anybody could have predicted the impact of his statistics here before his final start."
Even as good as he was, Greinke couldn't carry the rest of the Royals.
The injuries revealed a glaring lack of depth at the upper levels of the minor league system. Single-A and below, the Royals are fine. The inability to find suitable replacements for all the injured starters shows there's still work to be done at Triple-A and Double-A.
The defense, at times, was dreadful. The Royals led the AL with 116 errors and were second-worst in baseball in allowing unearned runs with 77.
The bullpen, a supposed strength, became a sore spot for most of the season.
Soria, despite occasional shoulder stiffness, was his usual self, converting 30 of 33 save chances with a 2.21 ERA. Problem was, the rest of the relievers had trouble getting him the ball.
Kansas City's bullpen ranked last in inherited runners scored and turned bullpen botchery into an art form after the All-Star break, losing three straight leads in the eighth inning and creating a here-we-go-again atmosphere nearly every time they took the mound.
More than anything, though, the Royals were hurt by players not living up to expectations.
Players like Guillen, Jacobs, Luke Hochevar and Kyle Farnsworth -- among others -- didn't play like the front office anticipated, leaving big holes in places they expected production.
The result was the fifth 90-loss season in six years for a team that hasn't been to the playoffs since winning the 1985 World Series.
"I expected us to be better," utility man Willie Bloomquist said. "At times we played well, but I'm not pushing the panic button on this organization, just because if you look at the majority our roster we're right there."
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Baseball Today
Los Angeles Angels at Texas (7:05 p.m. EDT). Jered Weaver (15-6) and the Angels are trying to build an insurmountable lead in the AL West over the second-place Rangers and Scott Feldman (16-5).
STARS
Thursday
-Howie Kendrick, Angels, homered and added an RBI blooper to break a ninth-inning tie, in a 4-3 win at Boston.
-Wade Davis, Rays, threw a four-hitter to earn his first major league win and Tampa Bay beat Baltimore 3-0.
-Ichiro Suzuki, Mariners, hit a game-ending single to center in the bottom of the 14th inning, leading Seattle to a 4-3 win over the White Sox.
-Cole Hamels, Phillies, struck out 10 in eight sharp innings to lead Philadelphia to a 4-2 victory over Washington.
-Brian McCann, Braves, hit a tiebreaking three-run homer and finished with four RBIs in Atlanta's 7-3 win against the New York Mets.
-Jody Gerut, Brewers, hit his second career grand slam to power Milwaukee to a 7-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
-Matt Maloney, Reds, pitched five innings to earn his first major league win, helping Cincinnati beat the Florida 3-2.
GETTING THAT LOOK AGAIN
Cole Hamels appears to be rounding into form for the NL East-leading Phillies. Hamels pitched eight innings in Philadelphia's 4-2 win over Washington on Thursday night and matched a season high with 10 strikeouts. Hamels, the MVP of last season's NL championship series and World Series, is 3-1 with a 1.43 ERA in his last five starts.
COSTLY LOSS
Florida lost 3-2 at Cincinnati, extending its skid at Great American Ball Park to nine straight and wasting a chance to gain ground in the NL wild-card race. The Marlins dropped five games behind Colorado and 1 1/2 games behind San Francisco, who were both off. Atlanta, which beat the New York Mets 7-3 moved a half-game ahead of Florida.
WORTH NOTING
The Braves have won seven straight games for the first time since 2006. They beat the reeling Mets 7-3 on Thursday night to move 10 games over .500 for the first time since May 16, 2007. ... The Reds sold only 9,685 tickets for their 3-2 victory over Florida, the second-smallest gate in Great American Ball Park's seven-year history. The smallest was 9,087 for the second game of a day-night doubleheader against Pittsburgh on Aug. 31.
LOOKING CY WORTHY
Zack Greinke boosted his Cy Young credentials, lowering his major league-leading ERA to 2.14 with five scoreless innings in the Royals' 9-2 victory over Detroit. Greinke (14-8) allowed three hits, struck out eight and walked two. He has allowed only one earned run in his past four starts, lowering his ERA from 2.43.
EARLY END
Oakland right-hander Brett Tomko has been sidelined for the rest of the season with nerve damage in his right arm. Tomko told team doctors he felt something in his arm during his five-hit shutout against the Rangers in Texas on Monday. He threw 114 pitches and could not move his arm the next morning.
NOW PLAY BALL
Right-hander Tanner Scheppers, the Texas Rangers' supplemental first-round pick in the amateur draft, agreed to a minor league contract with a $1.25 million signing bonus. This year was the third time Scheppers has been drafted. ... The Kansas City Royals agreed to a three-year major league contract with first-round draft pick Aaron Crow. Crow, selected 12th, a hard-throwing right-hander, is guaranteed $3 million even if he doesn't reach the majors under the deal that begins next season. He would earn about $4.5 million if he makes it to the big leagues.
SPEAKING
"Go on and ask (the players). I don't have any more quotes. Seriously, what am I going to say?" -- The usually loquacious White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen after his team blew a two-run, ninth inning lead and lost to the Mariners 4-3 in 14 innings.
SEASONS
Sept. 19
1925 -- Ted Lyons lost his bid for a no-hitter when Bobby Veach singled with two outs in the ninth inning. The Chicago White Sox routed the Washington Senators 17-0.
1926 -- The St. Louis Cardinals pounded the Philadelphia Phillies 23-3 in the first game of a doubleheader and beat them again in the nightcap, 10-2.
1949 -- Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first NL player to hit 50 home runs in two different seasons.
1955 -- Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs set a major league record with his fifth grand slam of the season in a 12-inning, 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.
1968 -- Denny McLain won his 31st game, the most in the AL since Lefty Grove's 31 in 1931. The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 6-2 while Mickey Mantle hit his 535th and next-to-last career homer.
1973 -- Frank Robinson hit his first home run in Arlington Stadium, as a member of the California Angels. It was the 32nd major league ballpark in which he had homered.
1984 -- Pete Rose reached the 100-hit plateau for the 22nd consecutive year, an all-time record. He also tied the NL record for doubles with 725 as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves 4-2.
1995 -- San Diego's Ken Caminiti became the first player in major league history to homer from both sides of the plate three times in a season as he went 4-for-4 with a career-high eight RBIs in a 15-4 win over Colorado.
1997 -- Mark McGwire hit his 54th homer and became the first major leaguer to hit 20 or more homers for two teams in the same season.
1998 -- Seattle's Alex Rodriguez hit his 40th homer to become the third player in baseball history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same season.
2001 -- Roger Clemens became the first pitcher in major league history to go 20-1, pitching the New York Yankees to a 6-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
2001 -- Albert Pujols set a National League rookie RBI record as St. Louis beat Milwaukee 8-2. Pujols drove in three runs to give him 120 RBIs, breaking the mark of 119 set by Wally Berger in 1930 for the Boston Braves.
2002 -- Alex Rodriguez and Rafael Palmeiro of Texas tied a major league record by homering in the same game for the 15th time this season. Rodriguez and Palmeiro equaled the mark set by Barry Bonds and Rich Aurilia for San Francisco last season.
2008 -- Baseball's instant replay system produced its first reversal when Tampa Bay's Carlos Pena had a two-run double changed to a three-run homer during the fourth inning against Minnesota.
2008 -- Oakland designated hitter Jack Cust struck out for the 186th and 187th time this season, breaking the AL record, in a 2-0 victory over Seattle. Rob Deer of Milwaukee previously held the AL mark with 186 whiffs in 1987.
Today's birthday: Scott Baker 28; Ryan Roberts 29; Nick Johnson 31.
(c) 2009 by The Associated Press.
Dunn's historic whiffing, K.C.'s other untouchable righty and more
In the penultimate Diamond Digits of the season, we examine some hits and a lot of misses from the most daunting weapon in the nation's capital, a lights-out Royals right-hander not named Greinke and a Brewers big man who eclipsed a surprisingly reachable franchise mark.
1,051
Strikeouts for Nationals slugger Adam Dunn over the past six seasons.
Dunn is one of baseball's most prolific power hitters, having smashed 40 or more home runs in each season from 2004 through 2008 (and 37 with two weeks to go in '09). He's driven in over 100 runs in five of those seasons while also walking over 100 times each year. However when it comes to historic feats, the strikeout has been Dunn's calling card. In the history of baseball, nobody has ever struck out more frequently during a six-year span than Dunn, who stands 185 strikeouts ahead of another mountain of a man, Philadelphia's Ryan Howard, currently second over the last half-dozen seasons with 866 strikeouts. Only three times in major league history has a player struck out over 1,000 times during a six-year period and each time it's been Dunn. From 2002 to 2007 Dunn struck out 1,018 times and from '03 to '08 he suffered through 1,012 whiffs.
0.81
Earned run average for a certain Royals right-handed starter since the beginning of September, the third best in the AL and fourth best overall -- and no, it's not Zack Greinke.
By now everyone is familiar with what a spectacular season AL Cy Young Award front-runner Zack Greinke has been enjoying, but since the start of this month he's had a rotation-mate who has nearly matched his success. Enter Robinson Tejeda, a journeyman of sorts who entered the month with a career mark of 17-20 with a 4.68 ERA on 342 innings. However since claiming a spot in the rotation on Sept. 4, he's been one of baseball's elite starters, tying for the lead in wins (three) placing fourth (to Greinke, Seattle's Felix Hernandez and Atlanta's Javier Vazquez) in ERA and allowing opposing hitters a startlingly low .117 batting average against in 22 1/3 innings. The ex-Phillie and Ranger has been especially brutal on right-handed swingers. Over that span, 42 right-handed Angels, Tigers and White Sox have come to the plate against him, and not a single one reached safely via a hit, although five did manage walks. With Greinke and Tejeda in the rotation together for an entire season, the future is finally looking up in the nation's heartland.
128
Runs batted in for Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, the most in franchise history.
Throughout the team's 40-years in the AL and NL the Brewers have often been known for being a top offensive team. Some of the game's top run producers like Gorman Thomas, George Scott, Ben Oglivie, Cecil Cooper, Richie Sexson and Ryan Braun have played in the shadow of Bernie Brewer, which makes it all the more surprising that the Brewers RBI record had been just 126, set in 1983 by Cooper. Only three franchises have an RBI record lower than Fielder's current total. The Mets' high is 124, set in '99 by Mike Piazza and tied last season by David Wright. The lowest current RBI highs are co-held at 121 by the Florida teams. The Marlins are paced by Preston Wilson, who set the team mark in 2000, while Carlos Peña hit the mark for the Rays in '07.
Best Stats of the Week
Miguel Olivo, C, Royals
When you take into account that Olivo started just four games, it makes his week seem all the more impressive. The sometimes starting catcher tied for the major league lead with four home runs and drove in a big league-high 13 runs during an offensive explosion that included Friday's two-homer, six-RBI outburst as the designated hitter against his former team, the White Sox. Quite an offensive surprise, his career-high 23 home runs (in just 370 at-bats) rank second among catchers to Joe Mauer's 28.
Honorable Mention: Adam LaRoche, Joe Mauer, Mark Teixeira, Matt Wieters, Michael Cuddyer, Jason Bay, Troy Tulowitzki, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jon Garland, Robinson Tejeda, Ryan Dempster and Cliff Lee.
Worst Stats of the Week
Nick Markakis, OF, Orioles
The sweet-swinging Markakis is one of the AL's most accomplished hitters, batting .298 for his career and placing among the league leaders in RBIs with 94. But last week he was plain awful, collecting just two singles and two walks in 28 plate appearances as his team lost five of the seven games they played. Markakis hasn't had more than one hit in a game in 10 days and he's seen his average dip 12 points in just 10 days, from .306 to .294, a difficult feat this late in the year.
Dishonorable Mention: Mark Reynolds, Kendry Morales, Bill Hall, Jhonny Peralta, Steve Pearce, Josh Wilson, Fausto Carmona, Jason Berken and Joba Chamberlain.
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Ichiro reaches 200 hits for record ninth straight season
With an RBI infield single in the second inning against the Texas Rangers on Sunday, Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki entered the record books.
The hit was actually his second of the day after he recorded the 199th on an RBI double in the first game of a doubleheader against Texas. The monumental hit came against Derek Holland in his second at-bat in the nightcap.
Ichiro became the first player in the storied history of major league baseball to compile nine consecutive 200-hit seasons, breaking the all-time mark previously owned by Willie Keeler since 1901.
He also tied Ty Cobb for the American League record for most 200-hit seasons in a career. The all-time major league record is 10 by Pete Rose.
One of the purest hitters to ever lace up a pair of spikes, the unpretentious Japanese star has accumulated at least 206 hits every season since entering the majors in 2001. He reached the apex in 2004, when he racked up an MLB- record 262 hits, eclipsing the mark George Sisler held for 84 years.
(c) 2009 Miami Herald Media Co. All rights reserved.
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