Baseball playoffs have been in full swing (see what I did there?), and the San Francisco Giants are one win away from winning the World Series! To say that tonight’s game will be exciting is a bit of an understatement.
Today’s fun thing is this piece in the New Yorker about star pitcher Madison Bumgarner and his Giants. Bumgarner earned two World Series rings by the age of 23 and now, at age 25, he’s trying for his third. He’s pitched amazingly well this post-season, and on Sunday night he shut out the Kansas City Royals.
But here’s the interesting footnote: That link is not a glowing story from a San Francisco writer who’s reveling in his local team’s third World Series appearance in five years. No, it’s written by a guy who’s been contributing to the New Yorker since 1944 — as in, 70 years! The Giants won the World Series in 1954, when they were in New York. This writer, Roger Angell, had already been contributing to the magazine for 10 years at that point. And then another 56 years went by until the Giants won the World Series again, in 2010. Angell has seen it all. And he loves it. That says a lot.
And, since I was able to go to my first-ever playoff games this season, here are a few photos from post-season at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
