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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 with the franchise’s earliest days and following the team up to recent World Series glory, Home Team chronicles the story of the Giants and their often topsy-turvy relationship with the city of San Francisco. Robert F. Garratt shines light on those who worked behind the scenes in the story of West Coast baseball: the politicians, businessmen, and owners who were instrumental in the club’s history.

Home Team presents Stoneham, often left in the shadow of Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley, as a true baseball pioneer in his willingness to sign black and Latino players and his recruitment of the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues, making the Giants one of the most integrated teams in baseball in the early 1960s. Garratt also records the turbulent times, poor results, declining attendance, two near-moves away from California, and the role of post-Stoneham owners Bob Lurie and Peter Magowan in the Giants’ eventual reemergence as a baseball powerhouse. Garratt’s superb history of this great ball club makes the Giants’ story one of the most compelling of all Major League franchises. 
 
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ISBN-13: 9780803286832

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Nebraska

Publication Date: 04-01-2017

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

Robert F. Garratt is emeritus professor of English and humanities at the University of Puget Sound. He has published books and articles on modern Irish literature including the recent Trauma and History in the Irish Novel: The Return of the Dead. His baseball articles have appeared in NINE and the SABR BioProject.

Table of 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