By Ira Boudway
April 01, 2013
Russell McBride has been a Miami Marlins fan since the team’s first season in 1993. For the past decade, he’s attended the home opener with about 20 friends. McBride was there last April when the Marlins played the first game in their new 37,000-seat, retractable-roof stadium—a gaudy gem of a facility that owner Jeffrey Loria filled with $191 million in free-agent talent, including players signed away from big-time franchises in New York and Chicago. Every baseball team is in first place on opening day; the 2012 Marlins appeared poised to be there in October, too.
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