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Miami Maniac
The Miami Maniac, often shortened to The Maniac, is the official mascot of the University of Miami Baseball program. Although Sebastian the Ibis is the official mascot of most University of Miami sports, the Maniac is the only mascot which performs at Hurricane baseball games. Created in 1982 by visionary College Baseball Hall of Fame head coach Ron Fraser in 1982 and originally performed by John Routh, the Miami Maniac has been a constant at Mark Light Field ever since.
Although primarily associated with the Miami Hurricanes' baseball team, the Maniac has performed at other sporting events including minor league baseball games and the College World Series. In 1985, the Maniac was "married" in a wedding broadcast to a national television audience on ESPN. The maniac has an anthropomorphic body with a head which resembles the Phillie Phanatic. The Maniac sports orange fur on most of his body with patches of green on his head and nose. He usually wears a University of Miami baseball jersey with the number 1/2 on it.
==History==
The history of the Miami Maniac starts out at the University of South Carolina. An undergraduate student named John Routh had helped create the South Carolina Gamecocks' mascot Cocky. Routh's performance as Cocky at Gamecock baseball games had made such a favorable impression that he was invited to the 1981 College World Series to perform as the Series' official mascot. One of the coaches at the World Series that year was University of Miami head coach Ron Fraser.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 John Routh '82 )〕 Fraser was always looking for opportunities to promote Hurricane baseball and college baseball in general and decided to create a mascot specifically for Hurricane baseball.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Two mascots, one goal: Get fans pumped )〕
The following year, Fraser and a major University donor helped create the Miami Maniac, which was inspired in part by the Philly Phanatic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Hurricane Spotlight: John Routh )〕 Fraser decided to introduce the Maniac during the Miami-FSU series that year and invited Routh down from South Carolina to show students how to work a crowd. At the end of the season, which was the Hurricanes' first World Series Championship, Fraser offered Routh a permanent position as Assistant Director of Marketing which included performing as both the Miami Maniac and Sebastian the Ibis.〔 Routh had just graduated from South Carolina and accepted the position.〔 During his tenure at the University, Routh created many of the cheers now associated with University of Miami athletics- the "C-A-N-E-S... Canes!" cheer was originally one he developed in character as the Maniac which was eventually picked up on by fans at Miami Hurricane football games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Interview with John Routh )〕
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