They defeated the American League champion Cleveland Indians in the 1997 series, which was notable for shortstop Edgar Renteria driving in second baseman Craig Counsell for the series-clinching run in the eleventh inning of the seventh and deciding game and the " fire sale " which occurred in the off-season following the dramatic win.

The underdog Marlins went on to face the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 World Series, and won in seven games.

In the 1997 National League Championship Series, Brown, riddled with the flu, proceeded to pitch a complete game in Game Six, defeating the Atlanta Braves and helping the Marlins reach the World Series, which they eventually won over the Cleveland Indians.

* Edgar Renteria ( 1996 – 1998 ) — Rentería is remembered for his 11th inning two-out RBI single in Game Seven of the 1997 World Series to give Florida a 3 – 2 triumph over the Cleveland Indians.

He lead the Marlins to victory in the 1997 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, making a spectacular catch against the right field fence in game 5.

Lava / Atlantic Records A & R man Andy Karp was interested, after seeing Kid Rock in Cleveland in December 1996 and again in March 1997.

His third – and final – attempt at a talk radio comeback occurred in 1997 on Cleveland radio station WTAM in a late evening time slot.

The logo replaced the striping pattern that had been on the uniforms since the team's inception ; save for color variations, the striping pattern was similar to that used by the Washington Redskins ( until 1979 ), Green Bay Packers ( until 1997 ), and Cleveland Browns ( still in use ), which is likely why the change was made.

* 1917 – Cleveland Amory, American author ( d. 1997 )

While the museum is located in Cleveland, prior to 2009 the induction ceremony was annually held in New York City ( except in 1993, when the ceremony was held in Los Angeles, and in 1997, when the ceremony was held in Cleveland ).

In January 1997, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located in Cleveland, Ohio, opened an exhibit called " My Town.

In January 1997, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, opened an exhibit called " My Town.

" Because the exhibit focused on Cleveland ’ s rock and roll history, Glass Harp was invited to give a special performance and Q & A session at the Museum in April 1997 Currently, Glass Harp is represented in the Museum ’ s ongoing " Cleveland Rocks " exhibit.

In 1997, the Bee Gees were inducted as a group into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, US.

Pollard created a new incarnation of Guided by Voices with Cleveland glam rockers Cobra Verde in 1997.

The Cleveland Rockers were a Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) team that played from 1997 until 2003.

* Christoph von Dohnanyi with the Cleveland Orchestra, 1997

The decision to have the game in Cleveland coincided with the 1997 season marking the fiftieth anniversary of Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier.

Conway has since made regular guest appearances at numerous " Ghoulardifest " functions held by WJW over the years, along with former Cleveland TV personality Bob " Hoolihan " Wells, in tribute to Anderson, who died in 1997.

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

* October 15, 1997: The Cleveland Indians win Game 6 of the 1997 ALCS 1-0 in 11 innings to win the series 4-2 and advance to the 1997 World Series.

A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

It stopped because interleague play started in 1997.

In order to manage these kinds of contractual obligations the university started the TU / e Holding B. V. in 1997.

TheHuddle. com, a free site since 1997, started to charge for information.

On Monday 23 December 2011, in an interview on Turkish newspaper BirGün discussing secret budgets, former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz admitted that Turkish secret agents intentionally started forest fires in Greece between 1995 and 1997 during the Prime Ministership of Tansu Ciller as part of state-sponsored sabotage, resulting in huge damage caused by major forest fires on the islands of the eastern Aegean and in Macedonia.

Unemployment started to fall ; by the start of 1993 it had reached almost 3, 000, 000, but by early 1997 it stood at 1, 700, 000.

Other programmers quickly started developing KDE / Qt applications, and by early 1997, a few applications were being released.

* Legion Records, started in 1997 by Michael Brosnan under the name Goatboy Records then changed to Goatboy Farms Recordings

De Icaza started the GNOME project with Federico Mena in August 1997 to create a completely free desktop environment and component model for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

A renewed uprising started in 1988 and claimed 20, 000 lives until it was resolved in 1997.

Deliveries started in December 1997, and involved the buy back of the remaining 11 Mirage F1s by France that were later sold on to Spain., The current commander of the Qatar Emiri Air Force is Brigadier General Mubarak Mohammed Al Kumait Al Khayarin.

After several other Asian currencies were attacked by speculators, the Korean Won started to heavily depreciate in October 1997.

The second GSM network operator started its operation on January the 15th 1997 under the name GlobTel a. s.

Tinky Winky started a still hinted-at controversy in 1999 because of his carrying a bag that looks much like a woman's handbag ( although he was first " outed " by the academic and cultural critic Andy Medhurst in a letter of July 1997 to The Face ).

A UK national tour started in 1997 and starred David Habbin as Tony, Katie Knight Adams as Maria and Anna-Jane Casey as Anita.

In response to a submission from Arbortext, Inso, and Microsoft, a W3C working group on XSL started operating in December 1997, with Sharon Adler and Steve Zilles as co-chairs, with James Clark acting as editor ( and unofficially as chief designer ), and Chris Lilley as the W3C staff contact.

1997 ( MCMXCVII ) was a common year that started on a Wednesday.

The resulting design, now known as the National Ignition Facility, started construction at LLNL in 1997.

Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT ( started by Steve Jobs in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997 ), the Trillium software was published under the GNU General Public License, with work continuing as gnuspeech.

Albarn explained to the NME in January 1997 that " We created a movement: as far as the lineage of British bands goes, there'll always be a place for us ", but added, " We genuinely started to see that world in a slightly different way.

In reality the train traffic started in 1997 and road traffic in 1998.

In August 1997, Fox Family started efforts to increase its quantity and quality of children's entertainment, " which could lead to an equity investment by Fox in the non-profit CTW in exchange for programs for its Family Channel.

In parallel with this effort, some of the JFS development team returned to the AIX Operating System Development Group in 1997 and started to move this new JFS source base to the AIX operating system.