Thank you. You are purchasing a 20 x 24 museum quality lithograph. This is a JEFF CONINE HAND-SIGNED IN BLACK SHARPIE; JACK MCKEON HAND-SIGNED IN BLUE SHARPIE edition. This Marlins piece is as well hand-signed by the artist in black sharpie.

This is a tapestry of the Florida Marlins star players, and coach, who made the 2003 World Series Champion - Florida Marlins: Ivan Rodriguez, Derrek Lee, Luis Castillo , Mike Lowell, Alex Gonzalez, Juan Pierre, Miguel Cabrera, Mike Redmond, Jeff Conine, Brad Penny, Carl Pavano, Dontrelle Willis, Josh Beckett and coach Jack McKeon.

About JACK MCKEON: John Aloysius McKeon, nicknamed "Trader Jack," is an American former Major League Baseball manager and front-office executive. In 2003, at age 72, he won a World Series as manager of the Florida Marlins. Two full seasons removed from his previous managing job, McKeon had begun the 2003 season in retirement, but on May 11, he was induced to return to uniform to replace Jeff Torborg as the Marlins' pilot. The team was 16–22 and in next-to-last place in the National League East Division. Described upon his hiring by Marlins' general manager Larry Beinfest as a "resurrection specialist," McKeon led the Marlins to a 75–49 win-loss record, a wild card berth, victories over the San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs in the National League divisional and championship series playoffs, and then a six-game World Series triumph over the New York Yankees.

About Jeff Conine: Jeffrey Guy Conine is a former Major League Baseball player who played 17 seasons with six teams primarily as an outfielder. An inaugural member of the Florida Marlins who was with the franchise for both of its World Series titles, he earned the title Mr. Marlin for his significant history with the club, and his ties to South Florida.

The 2003 World Series was the 99th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series. The National League champion Florida Marlins defeated the heavily favored American League champion New York Yankees four games to two. This is the most recent Series in which the losing team outscored the winning team. The Yankees lost, despite outscoring the Marlins 21–17 in the Series. This was the Marlins' second World Series championship win and their first since 1997.

About Robert Stephen Simon: The artist was the nationally acclaimed portrait artist, Robert Stephen Simon, who through many years of hard work and total dedication to his craft had risen to the highest echelons of graphic and commercial art in America and throughout the world before his untimely death. Mr. Simon possessed a rare quality of unparalleled ability to capture the majesty of a moment as well as the character and emotionalism of a subject. Mr. Simon prided 33 years as one of America's most respected and honored pioneers of Portrait Art and had been selected, by the Biographical Society of Cambridge, England, as one of the "1000 distinguished Americans" for the year 2001. Mr. Simon was a member of Who's Who in the World, the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., the Classical Society of Realism, and the distinguished Society of Illustrators, N.Y.C.
 Robert Stephen Simon Passed May 29, 2014. He will be missed.

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