1997 Florida Marlins The Official World Series Film (1998)

The fiveyearold Florida Marlins combined the wily leadership and manager Jim Leyland with a team built through shrewd draft picks trades and talented free agents They won the National League wild cardthen became the first wild card team to reach the World Series by sweeping the Giants and shocking the Braves The Cleveland Indians were a far different team than the one that battled in the 1995 World Series This year nobody expected them to beat the Yankees or the Oriolesbut somehow they did And so these two underdog warriors slugged it out in the heat and snow of the World Series until they reached that quintessential momentGame Seven Even then it went oninto the 11th inningthe second longest Game Seven in historybefore Edgar Renteria sent all of Florida into a state of delirious celebration