AdognamedCoffeedressed as abaseballfansitsoutsideCitiFieldbefore the New YorkMetsplaytheFloridaMarlinsintheir MLB Major Leaguebaseball opening daygamein New York April 5 2010.
In later years, Mr. Carter worked as a baseball broadcaster with the Florida Marlins, now known as the Miami Marlins, and coached minor-league baseball.
At approximately the same time that most of the distinguished guests from the baseball industry were arriving at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas last night, the Miami Marlins christened the 110th annual Baseball Winter Meetings with one of the worst-kept secrets of the offseason.