Baseball has life encoded within it as completely as DNA does: the world’s deepest wisdom, edgiest laughter, joys and sorrows. Among the millions who chase baseball’s dream, though, only a few scale the sport’s most rarified heightsnot only in terms of victory, but in becoming true selfless teams who are vivid role models, in a gritty age beyond the destruction of heroes. With uniquely wild style, the 2010 San Francisco Giants follow the 1969 New York Mets and 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers into history as a World Championship team whose success was supposed to be impossible. Welcome to the place where rally thongs meet Zen lessons, where relentless discipline meets fake beards, where the year-long neighborhood party culminates in a million being blessed by the team’s Pope in the name of Mays and Mc Covey. This is the kind of legendary year for which all baseball lovers live, told from deep inside and beyond. This is the timeless beauty and hilarity of life itself, a rich story even for those who never knew before why to care about the game.
About the author
Chris Haft Chris Haft is MLB.com’s beat writer for the San Francisco Giants, and has been covering the team since 2005, after growing up as a Northern Californian worshipping in the Giants’ cold, windy temple. He’s been covering Major League Baseball full-time for most of the past twenty years.Eric Alan: Eric Alan is author Wild Grace and Grace and Tranquility. He wrote the biographical material accompanying the CD Travelin’ Shoes by Giants third base coach/professional musician Tim Flannery; and his photograph The Inner Giant” has hung in the Giants’ broadcast booth in recent years.
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