1.   Baseball fans remember him as a Hall of Fame outfielder, the legend who replaced the legend.

2.   How do you replace a legend?

3.   I can think of no man who replaced a legend and survived.

4.   If it falls off its pace, the fingers will point first to the coach replacing a legend, rather than a team replacing its best players.

5.   If you come in replacing a legend, or maybe just a fan favorite, and get off to an inauspicious start, the greeting will be quite different.

6.   Martinez committed the almost unforgivable sin of replacing local legend Don Mattingly, Donnie Baseball to his legions of fans in the Big Apple.

7.   New combatants have replaced legends such as Tank Abbott and Royce Gracie.

8.   Rarely can a coach replace a legend, carve out his own long-term tenure and eventually quit on his own terms.

9.   So while scientific study has begun to replace legend, the anaconda still has not yielded its secrets to probe and calipers.

10.   Still, it is not easy replacing a legend, even when you are a legend.