THE San Francisco Giants Blog

Thank you all for the condolences, it means a lot coming from the greatest fans I know. My dad and I didn’t go to many baseball games, but football was another matter, lots of NY Giants games. My dad also loved to play golf and I’d get out with him a couple times a year. I think the last time we went to a baseball game was 2000 Giants-Phils at the Vet, Philly won in 10 on a walk-off inside-the-park HR by Abreu. And we got to Candlestick for a game in ’97. He grew up a Giants fan, started rooting for the Pirates when he worked in Pittsburgh — he was there for the World Series title in ’60 — then started rooting for the Mets later in life. It was funny hearing him gripe about the Mets just the same as any other Mets fan I know.