MIAMI (AP) – Among the standouts at Games 1 and 2 of the World Series was a Miami Marlins fan in the front row behind home plate.
Laurence Leavy’s orange Marlins jersey made him easy to spot amid a sea of Kansas City Royals blue. He said a Royals official approached him offering to move him to the team owner’s suite, but Leavy declined.
“The guy said, ‘The owner’s not really happy. He thinks you’re distracting the fans,'” Leavy said Friday. “I didn’t want to move. I paid a lot of money for that seat.”
Two nights of network TV air time made Leavy a celebrity. Since the World Series began, he said, his followers on Twitter have climbed from 175 to 6,800.
“Every Korean and Japanese station that follows American baseball has been calling me all night long for two days for an interview,” he said.