The details are a little fuzzy. Ask those who were there, and they don’t remember much about the game, only that it was played on an old minor-league field in a Pennsylvania factory town, and that the kid who threw the first pitch was John Lynch, who is now the general manager of the San Francisco 49ers.
Veteran scout Gary Hughes can’t believe it’s been a quarter of a century.
“It’s extremely hard to believe,” Hughes said, “until I look in the mirror.”
It was on June 15, 1992 — 25 years ago today — that the Marlins came into being in the form of the Erie Sailors of the New York-Penn League.