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SF Examiner: Sun appears to be setting on Giants' season, Venus Williams’ career
By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner
It was here in the Big Apple 60 years ago that Chuck Dressen, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, declared in a statement that some English teachers defended on the grounds a team is a collective noun, “The Giants is dead.”
The New York Giants weren’t — coming back from a 13½-game August deficit to force a playoff with the Dodgers, which resulted in the “Shot Heard ’Round the World,” by Bobby Thomson.
Read the full story here.
Copyright 2011 SF Newspaper Company
Special to The Examiner
It was here in the Big Apple 60 years ago that Chuck Dressen, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, declared in a statement that some English teachers defended on the grounds a team is a collective noun, “The Giants is dead.”
The New York Giants weren’t — coming back from a 13½-game August deficit to force a playoff with the Dodgers, which resulted in the “Shot Heard ’Round the World,” by Bobby Thomson.
Read the full story here.
Copyright 2011 SF Newspaper Company
Tags: 
Diamondbacks, Giants, U.S. Open, Venus Williams
Diamondbacks, Giants, U.S. Open, Venus Williams