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Jose Fernandez -the NL Rookie of the Year in 2013 - came to the United States by boat as a 15-year-old Cuban refugee in 2008. Along the way, he rescued his mother, who had fallen overboard. However, his beloved grandmother, who Fernandez calls a “baseball freak,” was left behind.“She’s the love of my life... my everything,” Fernandez said. The day before winning the Rookie of the Year Award, a shocked Fernandez was reunited with his grandmother in Florida with help from Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria.

Stephen Ross, the billionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins, is recruiting tax-and-spend puppet candidates to challenge fiscally conservative Florida Republican state legislators in the 2014 Republican primaries. The New York real estate investor’s actions are the latest in his campaign of personal destruction against fiscal conservatives who voted against massive taxpayer subsidies for Ross’ Sun Life Stadium. Ross, a real estate investor from Michigan who now lives in New York, owns 95 percent of the Miami Dolphins and Sun Life Stadium. Ross sought funding this year from Florida state and local taxpayers to cover much of the expenses for $350...

The line for single-game tickets outside #Marlins Park, less than 30 min before they go on sale I was certain every possible joke about baseball attendance in Florida had been exhausted over the past 20 years. Then I saw the tweet by Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post that included the photo (below) from the Miami Marlins Winter Warm Up event Saturday and realized we haven’t even scratched the surface. The Marlins have used up all of the goodwill a new taxpayer-funded stadium gave them just a year ago.

At 9:00pm Friday night, the Florida Marlins officially unveil their new logos and uniforms, transforming themselves overnight into the Miami Marlins.

MIAMI, Fla. -- Jose "El Nino" Temprana, a 105-year-old former Cuban political prisoner, became a U.S. citizen Friday. Temprana took the oath of citizenship in Miami early Friday. -snip- During the Cuban Revolution, he and three of his sons opposed Fidel Castro and were imprisoned in 1964 for 30 years. Following his sentence, he moved to Miami and has been free for the past 12 years. In the same ceremony Friday, Edgar Renteria of the 1997 World Series champions Florida Marlins also became a U.S. citizen. Renteria is now a shortstop for the Atlanta Braves.

Charging Fidel Castro with the deaths of his relatives, Cuban-American Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell declared last night: “I hope he does die.” “Castro killed members of my family,” Lowell told the Herald before last night’s game against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway. Some news reports have suggested the Cuban dictator, nearly 80, is gravely ill after undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding, even as Cuban news media say he is recovering. He has handed power to his brother, Raul Castro. Lowell, 32, recounted the trauma the Castro regime has caused his family. “My dad had to pack up his...

Could we hear the call of Play Ball on site of Hialeah Race Track or could the Florida Marlins be looking at the hills of North Carolina as their new home? Representatives of the team apparently will visit the city of Charlotte, and officials in Hialeah, as they consider moving the team from Miami. A Marlins spokesman said Thursday that it'll be the first meeting between the team and Hialeah, the state's fifth most-populous city and one located just a few miles northwest of downtown Miami. "I'm not looking at it as a long shot. I want to do everything...

The President spoke this morning to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in a hotel in Washington, speaking with power about the War on Terror, and his No Child Left Behind Education bill. Later he welcomed the 2003 World Champion Florida Marlins to the East Room in the White House, and talked baseball with old friends, teasing manager Jack McKeon as being like Donald Rumsfeld, ‘crusty,‘ but who ‘knows what he‘s doing,’ and ‘Pudge’ Rodriguez, who was his star catcher when he was managing general partner of the Texas Rangers.. Enjoy this MUCH needed visit to Sanity Island as you revel...

In Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series between the Florida Marlins and the Chicago Cubs Wednesday night, five outs Marlins second baseman Luis Castillo stood in against right-hander Mark Prior of the Cubs, who’d been painting a three-hit shutout until that point. With one out, a 3-2 count, and the Marlins speedy Juan Pierre on second with a double, the switch-hitting Castillo sliced a Prior pitch down the left field foul line. As the pop-up tailed for the grandstands. Cubs leftfielder Moises Alou circled under it, braced his right hand against the wall of the Wrigley Field...

CHICAGO - They were down to their final five outs. Five more outs and their season would be over. Five more outs and they would go home, kick back for the winter, and daydream about the glorious summer that was. And then, as a stunned Wrigley Field crowd of 39,577 sat in dumbfounded silence, it happened. The Marlins found their magic. They whipped out their wand in the waning, desperate moments Tuesday and produced one of their most dramatic victories in a summer full of them. Down 3-0 and facing elimination with a loss to the Chicago Cubs in Game...

Game 3 Live Thread...On My Home Turf...Florida Game 3 Preview: Marlins vs. Giants Giants' concern: Marlins' 1-2 punch Friday, October 3, 2003 By Steven Wine The Associated Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIAMI — The first two games of the playoffs have shown the San Francisco Giants how to beat the Florida Marlins: Keep Juan Pierre and Luis Castillo off base. It's easier said than done. San Francisco succeeded in Game 1, when Pierre and Castillo went a combined 0-for-8 as Jason Schmidt shut out Florida 2-0. But in Game 2, the Marlins' pesky little rally-starters came to life. Pierre and Castillo totaled...

Big catch: Pudge signs with Florida Marlins Former Ranger gets 1-year, $10 million deal 01/22/2003 By KEN DALEY / The Dallas Morning News Former Rangers catcher Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez signed a one-year, $10 million contract with the Florida Marlins on Wednesday. Rodriguez, a 10-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glove winner, was cut loose by the Rangers after the team traded for Cleveland catcher Einar Diaz on Dec. 6. The Rangers did not offer Rodriguez arbitration and paid him $2 million in severance as part of the contract. Rodriguez had discussed a three-year contract with Baltimore before talks broke off...