He flew into Miami late morning Monday from Cartagena, Colombia. He was so pressed for time he began changing clothes while waiting in line at Customs, because, two hours later, he would be running in a marathon. It would be his seventh one, in seven days, on seven continents.
“A whirlwind of epic proportions,” David Samson called his past week, in a bus headed for the big finale race. “An experience of a lifetime.”
Miami Marlins fans know the name well, of course, and likely don’t recall it with the kind thoughts. Samson for 16 years, until the recent ownership change brought his firing, was club president and right-hand man to unpopular owner Jeffrey Loria.