Willie McCovey, the soft-spoken first baseman with the thunderous bat that clouted 521 HRs over a storied 22-year Hall-Of-Fame career, primarily with the San Francisco Giants, passed… Read more “In Memoriam: Willie McCovey”
Category: Candlestick Park
Say Hey, one that got away?
Thomas Wolfe once wrote that “You can’t go home again”, and that was largely true for Willie Mays in 1972. That year, the prodigal son was traded… Read more “Say Hey, one that got away?”
Behind the Bag 