{"id":595,"date":"2012-07-01T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2012-07-04T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T23:04:15","slug":"mr-peter-magowan-speaks-at-ny-giants-night-at-att-park-on-june-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"MR. PETER MAGOWAN SPEAKS AT NY GIANTS NIGHT AT AT&T PARK ON JUNE 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NYGPS Member and long time NY Giants Fan and SF Giants Principal Partner, Peter Magowan gave his thoughts to the gathering on NY Giants Night at AT&T on June 26. Here is his speech:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “One of the great advantages of being a Giants Fan is to know that you are a part of a very proud history. There are very few sports organizations that have the tradition and memories that we Giants Fans enjoy.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That tradition now extends to 132 years, and obviously includes the many years that the franchise was in New York City. Even though the team is now in San Francisco it is important to remember where we came from and what we stood for, and that is what the New York Giants Preservation Society \u2013 led by Steve Rothschild and Gary Mintz who are here tonight \u2013 are determined to do.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With us tonight to remind us of our New York origins is Ed Logan \u2013 the last batboy for the New York Giants. His father was the clubhouse manager both in New York and San Francisco. Also with us is our beloved Mike Murphy \u2013 the first batboy for the San Francisco Giants, and soon thereafter our clubhouse manager, in fact, for the last 32, our only clubhouse manager. If there is a symbol of the history and tradition of the Giants, who is more deserving than Murph.<\/p>\n


\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As someone who grew up in New York and saw the Giants play many, many games in the Polo Grounds, keeping these memories alive is important. It is by combining the Giants of New York \u2013 the Giants of McGraw and Hubbell, and Terry and Ott with Mays and McCovey, and Marichal and Cepeda \u2013 that we best demonstrate who we are. For example, combined the Giants have more players in the Hall of Fame than any other team \u2013 even the New York Yankees.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today the San Francisco Giants try to keep these memories alive in many ways \u2013 the Remember \u201951 Sign, retiring the numbers of great N.Y. Giant players like Monte Irvin, the reunions of famous teams like the \u201951 and \u201954 giants, the uniforms our players continue to wear \u2013 virtually a replica of the same uniform the Giants wore 60 years ago \u2013 and the continuing and wonderful presence of the greatest Giant of them all \u2013 Willie Mays.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With your help these memories will stay alive \u2013 and be passed on to generations of Giants Fans to come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(CLICK ON TO ENLARGE) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NYGPS Member and long time NY Giants Fan and SF Giants Principal Partner, Peter Magowan gave his thoughts to the gathering on NY Giants Night at AT&T on June 26. Here is his speech: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}