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hrhbalzac
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How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
My dad was an avid baseball fan. Still is. One of his favorite things to tell me about, in lieu of bedtime stories (I kid you not) was how innocent Buck Weaver was in the whole Black Sox scandal. When I was about six, I received a kid's book about the history of the World Series. My favorite stories all seemed to involve the Giants---Josh Devore (The Seelyville Speed Demon)'s barehanded catch with two outs and two on in the bottom of the ninth of the 1912 WS and of course one headline that provided me many a junior high school chortle "Merkle's Boner"....anyway, the first game I ever went to was Giants Vs Cardinals in the summer of 1963. Willie McCovey became my favorite Giant ever (never to be replaced) a few years later, and here it is over 40 years later and I still let them break my heart every year...Gladly.
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10/16/2006, 1:17 pm
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tsetsefly
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How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
Parents raised in San Fran...never known another baseball team.
I was at the 89 quake game as well. I was a little guy but still remember thinking all the shaking was part of being at the WS.
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10/16/2006, 1:22 pm
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jobu needsarefill
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Re: How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
Pure & simple, I am a Giants fan because of Jon Miller.
Unlike most of my fellow ESPN expatriates who’ve been baseball/Giants fans for decades, I can only date my allegiance to the orange & black back to the summer of 1997. I was a big football fan all my life (like many an impressionable yoot, I drank the Cowboys Koolaid in the mid-70’s), but I never really paid much attention the Teh Great “Game of Baseball.”
Then, nine years ago, I just happened to be tuned into KNBR and I took note that SF was actually competitive. So, I tuned into a few games on the radio and I was captivated by the way Jon Miller called the game and spun his yarns. That was it. I was hooked, both on the game and on the Giants.
Later that fall, I met my future wife, and as fate would have it, she was a big Giants fan, too, as is her Gigantic family (mom, brothers & sisters, nephews, etc.) We make an annual pilgrimage to Scottsdale every March (we did the Grapefruit League in 2005 to change things up, and found ourselves pining for the desert) and each year we try & cross another ballpark off our list. Thus far, we’ve hit: Safeco, Chavez Latrine, Teh Ballpark in Arlington, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Yankee Stadium, Petco Park and the Oakland Mausoleum. We also attended the last game ever at Candlestick in 1999 (on my birthday, as a matter of fact) and the first game ever at Pac Bell (OK, it was the MIL exhibition game, but still, it was the first game.).
After the cataclysmic collapse in Game 6, I knew it was over. After game 7, I was catatonic, and my ma & pa-in-law had to drive me home from wife's sister's house. I think they wanted to drive me to the nearest psycho ward.
And there you have . . .the rest of the story.
Last edited by jobu needsarefill, 10/16/2006, 2:58 pm
--- "The preacher says all my sins is warshed away, includin' that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo." -- Delmar O'Donnell
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10/16/2006, 2:54 pm
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stretch9054
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How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
went to my first game in 62. Mays went deep of Jay Hook in the bottom of the 9th to win the game 1 zip. I remember opening the door at Candlestick that led you down to your seats...seeing the field changed me forever...my neighbors pool with the radio blaring on a Saturday afternoon...Ollie Brown up...bottom 8.."Watch it go watch it go tell it bye bye baby!"...get chills just typing it. Seen a lot of stuff in 44 years...too much to mention...yes 02 scarred me for life...but being a Giant fan...we have taken a lot of standing 8 counts...I have a few more left in me.
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10/17/2006, 3:14 pm
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Lionel Mandrake
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Re: How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
Stretch - hope you're just shaken and not stirred over there.
My story is simple: Teh Parents loved teh Bums. Naturally, being a pain the ass and constant !@#$ stirrer, I rooted for the Giants.
Tuning in games on the old clock radio back in '75.
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10/18/2006, 9:45 am
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Disentombed Psychopath
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How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
It was 1987. I was watching tv and I was changing the channels. I came across something on the screen. A baseball game. A hitter was up with something that looked so awesome to me. Homerun!
Will Clark, with that ever so sweet swing, hit a homerun. The Giants won 6-4. Can't remember who it was against, but I remember watching that in awe. I learned most of the rules of baseball on my own by watching Giants games whenever I could find them on TV. Then, in 1988, my best friend Fernando and his brothers taught me the game and how to play. They were huge Giants fans and taught me everything.
They are still my friends to this day, and Will Clark was always my favorite player.
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10/18/2006, 10:38 pm
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VASFfan
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How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
I was just a kid, about 8, reading the sports section of the old Richmond Independent, and saw a standings log. And saw that there was a San Francisco team. Well, immediately they were MY team and started reading everything I could about them. Willie Mays quickly became my favorite player (still is). Eventually, my dad took me to my first game...a doubleheader actually, against the Reds. We had right field bleacher seats, this was before the Stick was completely enclosed. The wind howled that day, and unfortunately so did the Reds. We got swept. Still, I was enthralled...hot dogs and baseball and the Giants. Later I would discover beer at baseball games. I would also eventually learn to hate Tommy Lasorda, that the Stick late at night can be one frigid place, that the Crab really wasn't such a bad guy, that some players (e.g., Al Oliver, Bobby Murcer) are a lot better from a distance than they are close up, and other important life lessons.
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10/19/2006, 9:34 am
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dredinis21
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Re: How did you become a Giants Fan (and Who played a role)?
I was seven years old when my Godfather took me to see a Giants-Cardinals game at the Stick. It was Will Clark's rookie year and he hit a bomb that ended up winning the game for the Giants 1-0. I will never forget that the scoreboard, after The Thrill hit the dinger, lit up with the phrase "you gotta love this kid!"
Ever since, I was hooked on Giants baseball.
This is my story and I'm sticking to it!
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10/27/2006, 12:07 pm
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