RealClearSports: San Francisco Embraces Sweet Torture, Giants

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com


SAN FRANCISCO -- Strange about baseball and the West. The ballplayers always have come from California: Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Tom Seaver, Barry Bonds, George Brett. Yet the sport is more important in the East, in New York, in Boston, in Philadelphia.

More large cities. More tradition. More passion. More history.

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