Home team : the turbulent history of the San Francisco Giants / Robert F. Garratt.

Home team : the turbulent history of the San Francisco Giants /

In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and West Coast fans did not immediately embrace the newcomers. Starting...

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Main Author: Garratt, Robert F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]
Subjects:
San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) > History.
New York Giants (Baseball team) > History.
Baseball > California > San Francisco > History.
Baseball > New York (State) > New York > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; PART I. HORACE; 1. Sunset in New York; 2. Dawning in the West; 3. Reinvention; 4. Scandalstick; 5. Perennial Bridesmaids; 6. A Perfect Storm; PART II. BOB; 7. "Bobby Thomson Lives!"; 8. Learning Curve; 9. The Humm Babies: "You Gotta Like These Kids!"; 10. Vox Populi; PART III. PETER; 11. "It's Déjà Vu All Over Again"; 12. The Improbable Dream; Epilogue: "The Home Team"; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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