Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Garratt, Robert F.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xii, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) > History
• New York Giants (Baseball team) > History
• New York Giants (Baseball team)
• San Francisco Giants (Baseball team)
• Baseball > San Francisco > History
• Baseball > New York > History
• Baseball
• California > San Francisco
• New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I : Horace. Sunset in New York -- Dawning in the west -- Reinvention -- Scandalstick -- Perennial bridesmaids -- A perfect storm -- Part II : Bob. "Bobby Thomson lives!" -- Learning curve -- The Humm babies : "you gotta like these kids!" -- Vox Populi -- Part III : Peter. "It's déjà vu all over again" -- The improbable dream -- Epilogue : "The home team".

ISBN

• 9780803286832
• 080328683X
• 9780496201232 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780496201249 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780496201256 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016031549

OCLC

953636135

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library