The Giants have to buck some strong historical trends as they attempt to repeat as World Series champions.Only three National League teams have ever won back-to-back world championships, the last being the Cincinnati Reds’ “Big Red Machine” of 1975-76. Earlier, it was the New York Giants in 1921-22. The other team? Surprise: It was the Chicago Cubs, who won in 1907 and 1908 — and haven’t won since.
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The San Francisco Giants’ World Series trophy will be making its last Bay Area appearance in Pacifica on Thursday.The trophy, which the Giants earned with their victory over the Texas Rangers, will be displayed at the Pacifica Community Center from 3 to 5:30 p.m.This marks the end of the trophy’s Bay Area tour before it travels to Oregon and Nevada.
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He’s probably already got one, seeing as how they are the World Champions and all, but just in case, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will receive his very own San Francisco Giants baseball cap from Mayor Ed Lee today.It’s all part of a warm welcome to The City planned at the Civic Center BART Station.
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OK, let’s admit it — we all felt a weird little pang of regret when we saw Steve Perry singing along to Journey at the World Series, a sense of “Why in the hell don’t these guys just get back together already? Just patch up their differences and move on?” Right?
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“If you build it, they will come.”Pete Osborne paraphrased a famous quote from the baseball movie “Field of Dreams” to describe the fortunate circumstances of business owners near San Francisco’s own field of dreams, AT&T Park, in the wake of the Giants’ run to a World Series title last fall.
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The San Francisco Giants will be featured on a new Showtime reality series chronicling the 2010 World Series champs’ off-season, spring training and 2011 regular season, Major League Baseball and the cable network announced Friday.The series “will give viewers a front-row seat into the lives of the players, coaches and team personnel as they begin the arduous task of defending their World Series title,” a statement said.
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Caltrain ridership increased by nearly five percent in November, according to agency documents.An average of 39,036 weekday riders traveled on the commuter rail system last month, a 4.4 percent improvement from November 2009 totals. Caltrain officials attribute some of the increase to crowds attending the Giants’ World Series victory parade on Nov. 3 in San Francisco.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom enjoyed some ribs from Arlington, Texas, last week as he cashed in on a World Series bet between the two cities, then ribbed his fellow mayor Thursday after discovering that photos of the feast had been leaked to a celebrity gossip website.
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