Email Story

Year's smallest crowd braves heat as Marlins cool off Braves' bats -- South Florida Sun

The Big Lead found this 9/4/2008 on sun-sentinel.com

Miami Gardens - Guess how many fans were at the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! ' game Wednesday. That's what reliever Joe Nelson and two other Marlins' players, whose identities he loyally protected, did before the opening pitch of Florida's 5-3 win against the Atlanta Braves . Each picked a section of Dolphin Stadium and scanned for fans. Nelson guessed 418. The official count ...