Dan Fost is a freelance writer who lives in the neighborhood of San Francisco, he focuses mainly on technology issues, but also a serious baseball fan who has his first baseball book Giants Past & Present, part of a series of MVP books published, has written.
After moving to San Francisco in 1989, was from the Dan storied aspects of the franchise and was struck immediately immersed in a World Series and then four years later in one of the all-time great pennant race, when the Giantsthe Dodgers lost on the last day of the season. In 1993, won 103 games on the year but lost the NL West to the Braves by one game.
This beautiful book is in a Giants Past & Present format with each chapter set the examination and comparison of the owners, managers, key players for every position, even the details of the baseball stadium. All this is surrounded by over 200 stunning photographs.
With a storied franchise like the Giants, but with two very differentEpochs as East Coast and West Coast team, we were curious whether fans actually make any kind of distinction. Dan is recommended that the ownership of Peter Magowan, the team really embraced the cultural heritage and includes all of the New York Giants players in All-Time Statistics, and displays the team banner in the stadium. The fans in the area were slow to all players who arrived in 1957, embodies the great quote by Dan sent to embrace in an e-mail:
"This is the damnedest town," wroteFrank Conniff, for a visit to San Francisco by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. "They cheer Khrushchev and boo Willie Mays."
We felt that we should the tables and let Dan Tell us about some players that he feels deserves some attention.
Buck Ewing is a player, Dan believes, will discuss not enough, when the conversation revolves around "best of times, but Buck's legacy should be that he is playing one of the best catchers ever to play.
John Montgomery Wardwas a versatile player who helped the Giants to championships in 1888 and 1889. He asked to organize his skills as a lawyer and the players for a better bargaining position to use rights and conditions to the point he started his own league with players who defected from the '89 champions.
Dan has a book by Frank DeFord called The Old Ball Game, on John McGraw and Christy Mathewson as a fascinating character study, especially the dichotomies of McGraw. Dan usedMcGraw records as another example of how the Giants have a franchise that can compete with the Cubs storied and for many years, the Red Sox never reached the highest goal and to succumb always been heartbreak.
Part of the way, we will be happy to look at the history of a team visit, mental baseball stadium where they played. The Polo Grounds in New York, built under Coogan's Bluff game seemed to be a wonderful place to observe A. Similar to the observation perches outside of Wrigley Field,Coogan's Bluff allows a simple line of site of action. Dan tells how on the day when the Giants had to replay the Cubs to resolve the "Merkle's Boner" transgressions .. more than 200,000 fans showed up and had to be dismissed. Forty thousand ended up on Coogan's Bluff about trying to get a view.
In a nod of the baseball tradition of a "Knothole Gang", the new home of the giant AT & T Park includes a fenced area for the fans watching the game.
Dan has season ticketsto take in an upper deck section of the AT & T behind the home plate, and gets in the glory of the views of the bay, McCovey's Cove and the entire ball park. From the perspective of engineering whirls it figured out how to situate the park so that it comfortably in his chair, while winds at the hall.
Nestled among the houses in New York and the beautiful retro-style ballpark, they are in today, the Giants played their games at Candlestick Park, it did not take long for the conditions ofCandlestick to have an impact on the players who complained about the weather, and it was historically it difficult to persuade the team to the major free agent to play for the Giants. By trying a new park via ballot measure to develop the property was to try to lure fans to the games in any season and at the same time having to get to complain about the stadium funding.
The Croix de Candlestick was dreaming a badge of honor by Patrick Gallagher for those who have done itcompletely by an extra inning night game in the park
It should not forget that the Giants teams of the sixties some great ball players, the candlestick had called home, so at least there was to see some good baseball. Willie McCovey said Dan during the preparation for this book that made for food to Bobby Richardson, who was 1962 World Series he was not that upset, because the whole team felt that they were so with talent, they would still end loadedof the World Series over the course of the decade back.
We must also look at the 1989 World Series as another defining moment in the history of Candlestick Park, and we get Dan's eyewitness account of being in the city during this time. of baseball's ability to heal the community during a recent conversation difficult times like the world wars and after the 9 / 11 attacks, should also San Francisco and Oakland after the Loma Prieta earthquake off the Game3rd
Giants past and present is available wherever great books are sold.
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