Posted on 10/27/2010 4:05:25 PM PDT by Liberty Valance
Game 1: Tonight in San Francisco 6:30 p.m. (Texas time) on FOX
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Geesh...the crowd went nuts over a can of corn.
Indeed. Still don’t understand how the Phillies rolled over for this team...
Aubrey Huff doubles to right field corner with 2 out....here comes Uribe.
OK. I just walked in the door.
P-I-T-C-H-I-N-G! And dugout chemistry.
I can hardly stand to look, lol. Postseason football is something we’re used to, this is a new animal entirely. I’m lovin’ it!
We were lucky enough to go to the Ballpark 4 times this summer. I actually “caught” an Ian Kinsler foul ball! (Funny story-it landed in my purse!)
Who threw the first pitch of the series?
How funny! In my early married years we lived in Arlington and went to the old Ranger stadium and sat in the outfield all the time. If I remember correctly the tickets were $3 (I am really dating myself). It was always so much fun sitting in the bleachers with the crowd of regulars and drinking beer and eating hot dogs. The Ballpark is nothing like Ranger stadium!
Darn...I wasn’t paying attention.
I guess it wasnt GWB
In San Francisco? LOL!
Why do the Giants have a teenage girl pitching?
Good point LoL
The Giants suffer from “The Curse of Eddie Grant”...
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Eddie Grant was not the only baseball player to die in combat, but he was by far the most prominent, not just in World War I, but in any subsequent war. (Pitcher Christy Mathewson was gassed in an Army training accident, which may have made his lungs more vulnerable to contracting the tuberculosis that eventually killed him, at age 45, in 1925.)
In the sunny pause between a Sunday double-header in the spring of 1921, a military band led a solemn parade of ballplayers and soldiers across the wide lawn of the Polo Grounds to a spot as far from home as they could get without leaving the field. They stood in ranks around a flag-draped monument about the size of a batboy that had just been planted in the deepest part of center field, where long fly balls went to die. It was Memorial Day, and they had come to honor Eddie Grant, who had been, as sportswriter Fred Lieb put it, “called out by the great Umpire.”
As Grant’s sisters pulled aside the American flag covering the granite monument, the band struck up “My Country ’Tis of Thee.” “Soldier, Scholar, Athlete,” read the bronze plaque affixed to the monument.
After the Giants played their last game in the Polo Grounds in 1957, fans tore apart the field, and the bronze plaque from the memorial that was meant to mark his name forever disappeared.
The plaque never resurfaced, as the Giants had promised, in their new San Francisco home.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/sacrifice.html?c=y&page=1
Oh Comon! Lee beans Torres?
Willie Mays.
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