If you walked into the Westin/Grand Central on 42nd street on Saturday Morning, January 19, 2013, you would think the NY Giants or the SF Giants are there…..The SF Giants along with their top guns brought the Championship Trophy to NYC….A semi private showing took place in the Knickerbocker Room at the Westin from 9:30AM-11:30AM……Breakfast was served and all were treated to some replica trophy/pins.

Larry Baer, Brian Sabean spoke to the gathering of more than 200 die hard Giant Fans from the Metropolitan Area….There was thunderous applause throughout..

This was followed by Willie Mays who spoke for nearly 20 minutes about his career and he said “I am a Giant for life”…Mays has bridged the gap from NYC – San Francisco and is looked upon as the Greatest Giant of them all….

Following his session, 30 minutes of questions from the throng…..Photos were taken all morning by everyone in attendance and also SF Giants Production Team.

It was certainly a morning that we will not too soon forget.
-Steve Rothschild

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A group of lucky fans got to spend yesterday morning with the Commissioner’s Trophy, Giants president and CEO Larry Baer, general manager Brian Sabean — and Hall of Famer Willie Mays at the Westin Hotel in Midtown.
“I am always a Giant,” Mays said. “The Giants are all over, we’re in New York, we’re in San Francisco. We’re everywhere. This organization is something special.”
Mays addressed both the New York Giants Historical Society and the New York Giants Preservation Society and received standing ovations from the crowd on five separate occasions.
Mays greeted fans yesterday in midtown Manhattan.The Hall of Fame outfielder played with the Giants for 20 seasons, six of them while the team was in the Big Apple, and played parts of two seasons with the Mets.
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There are no words for today!!!
Thanks to the talented Jason Guevera!!!!!!

Actually a few words:
NYGPS would like to thank the SF Giants for coming home again with the WS Trophy. Great morning heavily attended by many. Great speeches by Brian Sabean, Larry Baer, Peter Magowan, and the great one Willie Mays. We thank the entire organization for making this possible! Special thanks to Staci Slaughter, Albert Jaimes and the Giants staff for going above and beyond again!!

Thanks to George Vecsey

In 1954, the champion Giants were welcomed home. These days, the San Francisco Giants still acknowledge New York as their ancestral home.
By GEORGE VECSEY
Once they were the darlings of Coogan’s Bluff, but now the San Francisco Giants are the darlings of a bar in New York’s East Village as well as thousands of passionate baseball fans back East who stay up late to root.

For the last two decades, the Giants have acknowledged their inner Christy Mathewson, their inner Monte Irvin, as part of their heritage. Did this help them win the World Series in 2010 and 2012? Well, Posey and Sandoval did not hurt.

A cadre of Giants, including one Willie Howard Mays Jr., will return to the ancestral home in the next week to be honored for the most recent Series victory. This organization is touching all the spiritual bases.
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This never gets old and seems to never die (Thank goodness). Just back from the Billy Crystal movie Parental Guidance. Crystal ambition was to become the SF Giants broadcaster. A major story line is the… famous call by Russ Hodges:

“ Bobby Thomson…up there swingin’…He’s had two out of three, a single and a double, and Billy Cox is playing him right on the third-base line…One out, last of the ninth…Branca pitches…Bobby Thomson takes a strike called on the inside corner…Bobby hitting at .292…He’s had a single and a double and he drove in the Giants’ first run with a long fly to center…Brooklyn leads it 4-2…Hartung down the line at third not taking any chances…Lockman with not too big of a lead at second, but he’ll be runnin’ like the wind if Thomson hits one…Branca throws…[sound of bat meeting ball] Continue reading →

This will be the second public trophy tour held in the past three years and will feature both the 2012 and 2010 trophies. The focus of the San Francisco World Championship Trophy Tour presented by Bank of America in association with Tiffany is to share the trophies with Giants fans in Junior Giants communities throughout northern California.

“It was really important to us this time, given a second opportunity, to create a trophy tour which allowed us to connect with our fans as well as the more than 20,000 kids who participate in our Junior Giants baseball program,” said Larry Baer, Giants president and chief operating officer.

Tour Schedule (Subject to Change)
Specific Locations and Times to be announced in January
For more information and regular tour updates visit: sfgiants.com/trophy

TROPHIES COMING TO NYC JANUARY 19TH!!

Chuck Diering, who spent nine seasons in the major leagues as an outfielder with the Baltimore Orioles, New York Giants, and St. Louis Cardinals, passed away Friday after taking a fall at his home in Spanish Lake, Mo. He was 89. He played in the 1952 season for the Giants hitting .174 with 2RBI’s in 41 games.
Here is a link to his story and obit.
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With Diering’s passing, only 31 NY Giants remain. Here is the updated list:
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Even NY Giants fans would love this guy. The epitome of a player. He plays for the team not himself. An old-time player who plays smart and knows what he is doing without making a spectacle of himself or the game!! He means so much to the team beyond his tremendous statistics. Most deserving of MVP Award! Congrats to Buster and his fans!! He is the reason we are now winners!!!

NOW ENJOYING CONTINUAL SUCCESS, THE GIANTS WILL HONOR THEIR ROOTS
By DAVID WALDSTEIN (FROM THE NYTIMES)

DETROIT — It has become Mike Murphy’s new biennial tradition. When the Giants win the World Series, he immediately calls Willie Mays. And then he calls his wife.
The Giants’ celebration of winning the World Series, as in 2010, will spill into New York, where the franchise played until 1958.
It’s understandable. Murphy, the Giants’ avuncular equipment manager, and Mays share a deep friendship. It goes all the way back to Murphy’s first day with the team as the Giants’ bat boy in 1958, the year the club moved to San Francisco from New York.
In 2010, when the Giants won their first World Series as a Bay Area team, Murphy did the same thing as he did Sunday night. And the Giants as a team are basically sticking to their script, too. After they won in 2010, they paid homage to their New York roots by sending Mays, the star catcher Buster Posey and the championship trophy to Manhattan for what amounted to a sentimental victory tour of the city.
And now they’re going to do it again. “We’re bringing it back,” exclaimed Giants General Manager Brian Sabean amid the euphoric celebration here Sunday night after his team won Game 4 to sweep the Tigers. “Tell everyone in New York to get ready, because we’re coming with it.”
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