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On top of the world: Marlins complete 2003 season as baseball's champs.(Florida Marlins)

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| January 01, 2004 | Stone, Larry | COPYRIGHT 2004 Century Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

FOR THE FLORIDA MARLINS, THE sweetest sound was silence. The exhilarating cacophony of nothingness, a full stadium reduced to gaping as the interlopers did the familiar scrum dance on the pitcher's mound.

It was so quiet in the Bronx, you could hear a dynasty drop.

"Same as Chicago--like a vacuum sucked the life out of everyone," said Jeff Conine in the Marlins' decidedly unquiet clubhouse.

Josh Beckett did that, the 23-year-old ace-in-training whose stature was on a meteoric rise in the 2003 postseason. He sucked the life out of the Yankees, and in the process vindicated his 72-year-old manager, Jack McKeon, whose faith in Beckett on three ...

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