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RealClearSports: San Francisco Embraces Sweet Torture, Giants

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com


SAN FRANCISCO -- Strange about baseball and the West. The ballplayers always have come from California: Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Tom Seaver, Barry Bonds, George Brett. Yet the sport is more important in the East, in New York, in Boston, in Philadelphia.

More large cities. More tradition. More passion. More history.

Read the full story here.

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Hey Art-
Upon reading the first two sentences of this column, I was reminded of my longtime friend Kevin Nelson's book, "The Golden Game, the history of baseball in California". "History" and "California" are much more than periphery in this nost relevant view of the grand old game.

-Lars in Lodi

p.s. I was hooked in jr. high reading your work, along with The Sporting Tiger and Mr's. Rosenbaum and Stevens. After all, 'The Chron' taught me reading (Herb Caen)and math (Giants boxscores) over Wheatena or soft boiled eggs on toast at the breakfast table before school.

Cheers.
-Lars

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