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The Willie Mac Award
by totalfan62 The Willie Mac Award is named for Willie McCovey, the Hall of Fame first baseman who played for our Giants from 1959 through 1973, then finished his career with us from 1977-1980. Willie is one of the few MLB players to have played in four decades. He was the 1959 Rookie of the Year, and he was an everyday presence in our lineup throughout the 1960s. By the late 1960s “Stretch”...
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SURF MAUI’S GIANTS MUSEUM AND MANCAVE COLLECTION®–Part VII: WORLD SERIES PROGRAMS
by Surf Maui In today’s tour of the SMGMAMC® we will focus on some Giants World Series Programs and a few–but by no means all-- of SM’s other World Series items. As did many of you, SM has attended all of the Giants home World Series games at Willie Mays Field since...
Surf Maui Guest Post: New Acquisitions for My Giants Museum
by Surf Maui It’s been a while since SM has written about his SurfMaui Giants Museum and ManCave. (tm) Today, however, there are two new additions, courtesy of a long time friend (albeit a Yankee fan) who was nice enough to send me them as a present. Before SM moved...
Surf Maui Guest Post: My Giants Museum and Man Cave, The Buster Posey Collection
By Surf Maui If there is to be Giants baseball in 2020, it won’t be with Buster Posey. As we all know, he made the very classy move to opt out of baseball this season in order to avoid exposing and taking care of his newly adopted fragile twin daughters. ...
Surf Maui Guest Post: My Man Cave & The MadBum Collection
by Surf Maui The MadBum Collection It is well known that SurfMaui was a huge fan of Madison Bumgarner--the depth of which may become more apparent later in this installment of the SMGMAMC®. Subject to the vicissitudes of the Covid-19 Pandemic, with baseball perhaps...
Surf Maui Guest Post: The 1962 Giants
by Surf Maui Welcome to the next installment of the SMGMAMC® tour. Today we will focus on the 1962 Giants who, as you all know came within a few inches of winning the World Series. Their miraculous pennant charge and improbable comeback playoff win not only cemented...
SurfMaui Guest Post: My Conversation With John “The Count” Montefusco and the Quest to Return His Team MVP Trophy
by SurfMaui In Surf Maui’s piece several weeks ago about John Montefusco, I reported that SM was in possession of The Count’s 1976 Giants Team MVP Trophy as awarded by the San Francisco beat writers. You may also recall that I reported that I had previously...
Guest Post: The 1982 Giants
by totalfan62 The 1982 San Francisco Giants were an interesting team. We had finished 56-55 overall in strike-shortened 1981, playing better in the post-strike portion of the season. VP of Baseball Operations Tom Haller made some significant moves in the 1981...
SurfMaui Guest Post: My Highlights and Lowlights of the Decade
BY SURFMAUI As the decade comes to an end, and in the spirit of Dr. Lefty’s excellent Post, SM is offering his favorite and least favorite moments of the 2010's. Overall, though these teams lacked some of the superstars like Mays, McCovey, Marichal. Bonds etc.,...
Shame on the Giants for Dishonoring the Franchise
By SurfMaui Please allow me the privilege of expressing my outrage, disgust, and profound sadness over the Giants' failure to sign Madison Bumgarner. I have been a Giants fan since the early 1950's. I distinctly recall listening to a Dusty Rhodes home run in the 1954...
Haak Away Guest Post: 2019 MyGuy Results
by Haak Away MyGuy2019™ ... "In the Books" MyGuy™ means spotting the Giants prospects that are undervalued at each level. It is picking players that did not stand out the previous year but you say, "He will have a breakout season." Twenty of us spoke up and stuck out...
Howard Beale Guest Post: Giants Pay Homage to 2017 Team in Fitting Fashion by Losing Another Sad Sack Home Game in What is Turning Out to be a Sadder September
by Howard Beale "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows they're bad..." I'M AS MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE! The Giants are losing terribly at home and there's nobody anywhere who knows what to do.. "We know things are bad....
Rob Deer Guest Post: Lindsay Wagner Nude
by Rob Deer Ok, you’re not going to see Lindsay Wagner nude but sometimes you have to resort to this type of click bait in order to garner Surf Maui’s attention, and Lindsay has been on my mind since engaging Greek Giant in a Bionic Woman vs Wonder Woman debate...