The last time The Giants won the Series they were playing in New York and Willie Mays (below) was their star player. In 1954 Eisenhower was President and Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The top television show in the USA was "I Love Lucy" with Lucille Ball and her bandleader husband Desi Arnez. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize that year for his novella "The Old Man and the Sea" and other great works. And gasoline was only 21 cents a gallon at the pumps in the 48 states of the Union!
They have gone to the World Series four times since they moved the franchise to San Francisco. The were eliminated twice in the Seventh and final games in 1962 and 2002. But this time they won it all in a 3-1 victory in the fifth game, a win fueled by a great double-digit strike out performance by Tim Lincecum and a game-breaking three run home run by the old man of the team, Edgar Renteria!
It was about 42 years since my dad took me to Candlestick Park to see Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry face the Atlanta Braves in a regular season game. The game tonight--and that final strikeout by ace "closer" Brian Wilson was a great moment for me and millions of Giants fans! Whether this was their first year as a fan of the team of their 56th, this is a very sweet night for the fans of the Orange and Black!
This year was "Next Year"! The Giants have made it! Thanks guys. 
Yeah, they won, but I think the Rangers had a terrific season anyway. Personally, if I were still into baseball, I'd still be a Baltimore Birds( Orioles) fan, but the series is always exciting.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Doug. I'm glad *your* team won!
Thanks Jacquie. And bravo to the Rangers for their first World Series team and their great pitching and hitting that overcame the mighty Yankees to get there!
ReplyDeleteHubby has been a fan of the S.F. Giants since he was 8... he's HAPPY tonight
ReplyDeleteWonderful and I even hae been up jet lag lol to hear the good news
ReplyDeleteThat's great Beverly! It's been a long time for both your hubby and me.
ReplyDeleteIt's a wonderful feeling Heidi! ---hope your jet lag is short-lived. Giants are the champs!
ReplyDeleteThe odd thing is, they had to file bankruptcy this season, yet were a winning team! I'm glad Nolan Ryan got a piece of the pie though.
ReplyDeleteGood for them
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that. Ryan deserves it! He was amazing.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tess.
ReplyDeleteeven a blind squirrel can find a nut every 50 or 60 years. Congratulations on the end of your suffering
ReplyDeletehehehe well who cares about the blind squirrls WE WON over all the bad press we go as misfits who are the misfits now WE WON HURRAH
ReplyDeleteI really felt like a blind squirrel when Brian Wilson threw that final strike-out that ended the Series. A happy, drunken blind squirrel! I didn't cry, but I admit my eyes actually watered. Four decades of waiting will that that to a guy I guess.
ReplyDeleteI've suffered as a Giants fan when they had some bad years, when they came so, so close, and now I feel what its like to root for the best team in baseball!
Thanks Fred.
We're no longer the Cleveland Indians of the National League.
Yes, Heidi, who would have thought our line-up of cast-offs and misfits would play in the field and at the plate. I knew we had good pitching, but I was wrong. The Giaints have great pitching! HURRAH indeed!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Doug.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who supports an unfashionable football team that never wins anything I fully understand how sweet it is when your team finally comes up with the goods.
Enjoy your time in the sun!
Thanks Ian.
ReplyDeleteMay your football fans soon feel as good as the long-suffering Giants fans, young and old, over here do right now!
Kelly said they had 1.2million people watching their ticker tape parade wonderful
ReplyDeleteWow! I heard it was the biggest parade of any kind in the history of the city. Two of my friends made it tot City Hall for the ceremonies. My fellow Giants fans sent me some pictures.
ReplyDeleteSome of the news stations have run video coverage on their websites. It looks like a blast!
This is what it looked like from where my friend Pat was standing. Wish I was down there yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI was at the same game you were lol all those years ago--
ReplyDeleteon the way home across the San Mataeo bridge and got rear ended will never forget it all
What a coincidence.
ReplyDeleteI was on a bus once to a Giants game that got slammed into by a car on the Bayshore Freeway. Nobody got hurt. Takes a lot of the fun out of a day at the ballpark though.