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Title: Splash Hit! Pac Bell Park and the San Francisco Giants by Joan Walsh, C. W. Nevius, Larry Baer, Peter Magowan, C.W. Nevius ISBN: 0-8118-3203-1 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome
Comment: Great pictures of what has to be one of the nicest sports facilities in the world. I've been to one game here - and as a resident of Seattle, I honestly think that Safeco is a better place to watch a game. However, no stadium can match the asthetic views and its situation in one of the most beautiful cities in the world makes Pac Bell #1.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Book For A Great Ball Park
Comment: Pac Bell Park is one of the newest and one of the best ball parks in America. This book is a great tribute to that new park and the Giants' first year playing in it. The book goes into the history and politics behind the park and has a lot of good pictures of the 2000 Giants players in action. Peter Magowan and local and national writers also added illuminating essays to the text. There are a lot of spectacular pictures of the park from all different angles and some interesting construction shots.
A little disappointing was that the book did not have much on the Polo Grounds, Seals Stadium, and Candlestick Park. Even though the Giants no longer play at the old parks, their history is indelibly intertwined with the newer ball park and they deserved more space.
This belongs on any Giants fan's coffee table, especially if they have visited the park.
Rating: 4
Summary: Introducing The Most Beautiful Ballpark In Creation
Comment: Every fan of the the Giants should get this book and wallow in the beauty of Pacific Bell Park, if you can't get there yourself. The park really is probably the most beautiful ballpark in baseball, a tiny little gem that nevertheless plays like a huge pitcher's stadium thanks to the bizarre asymmetry of its outfield (and a San Francisco wind that the park's engineering turned into an ally, instead of the vicious Hawk it was at Candlestick Park.)
But it's also a great collection of essays from baseball writers including George Will and Peter Gammons, and local writers sharing memories of the team and the long years of waiting in the cold and fog for a world championship that still hasn't come. Those essays are some of the best parts of the book, moving and nostalgic in the best sense.
The body text, that tracks the long road from New York through Candlestick to the drama of building a new ballpark without the safety net of public money, then chronicles the great 2000 season, is little more than acceptable, but in a coffee table book what you want is gorgeous photographs and insightful vignettes, and "Splash Hit" has that in aces.
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Title: The Giants and the Dodgers: Four Cities, Two Teams, One Rivalry by Andrew Goldblatt ISBN: 0786416408 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Tales from the San Francisco Giants Dugout by Nick Peters ISBN: 1582616868 Publisher: Sports Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Tiger Stadium by Irwin J. Cohen, M. Rodrigues ISBN: 0738523135 Publisher: Arcadia Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Official Major League Baseball Fact Book, 2004 Edition by Major League Baseball, Sporting News, The Sporting News, Major League Baseball ISBN: 0892047321 Publisher: Sporting News Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Why Is The Foul Pole Fair? (Or, Answers to the Baseball Questions Your Dad Hoped You Wouldn't Ask) by Vince Staten ISBN: 0743233840 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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