Remembering the Stick
Candlestick Park-1960-2013
Published on 2. May 2017
376 pages
978-1-63076-072-4 (ISBN)
Description
Described by famed baseball scribe Roger Angell as looking like "a festive prison yard" during the 1962 World Series, Candlestick was loved and hated by sports teams and fans alike for its 43 years of existence. Built on a landfill above a garbage dump in a city rocked by an 8.6 earthquake only 54 years earlier, it was notorious for the tornadic winds that came off the bay, probably costing Willie Mays at least 100 career home runs. The fogs that rolled in looked like something God sent to pass over His Chosen people. And of course, there was the famous 1989 World Series earthquake that postponed the opening game for 10 days. But it was also home to the greatest run of sustained excellence in pro football history: the 1981-1994 49ers, as well as the exploits of baseball stars such as Mays and Juan Marichal.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
16 BW Photos
File size
3,18 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-63076-072-4 (9781630760724)
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Book
07/2017
The Lyons Press
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Person
Steven Travers is the author of more than twenty books, including the best-selling Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman, nominated for a Casey Award as Best Baseball Book of 2002; and One Night, Two Teams: Alabama vs. USC and the Game that Changed a Nation. He was at Candlestick when the stadium was rocked by the 1989 World Series earthquake, witnessed the 49ers winning their first NFC title there in 1981, and was busted for trying to bring beer into the stadium as a teenager. He lives in northern California.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Rivals
- Harney's Dirt
- Landfill
- Ineptitude and Inferiority
- Superiority Complex
- Alex Pompez and the Latino Pipeline
- The Preacher
- Meet the 1962 San Francisco Giants
- Death Struggle
- September 1962
- 1951 Redux
- Beat L.A.!
- "A Festive Prison Yard"
- October 1962
- The East-West Fall Classic
- For the Record: 1962
- Duel
- The Roseboro Incident
- Year of the Pitcher
- The 600/3,000 Club
- Last Hurrah
- Here Comes the Niners
- A Black Day by the Bay
- 1970 Redux
- It Is Darkest Just before the Dawn
- Celebrity Corner
- Halicki's No-Hitter, Montefusco's Boasts
- The Melancholy Story of Jim Plunkett
- Renaissance in '78
- The Catch
- Birth of a Dynasty
- Morgan Breaks Dodger Hearts
- Super Bowl XIX: 49ers 39, Dolphins 16
- Craig and Clark and Mitchell and Draveckyand . . . "Humm Baby!"
- "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over"
- So Close and Yet So Far
- Saviors
- The OJ Scandal
- Super Bowl XXIX: 49ers 49, Chargers 26
- The North versus the South
- The Greatness That Is, Er, Was the Raiders
- The Computer That Was Dallas
- The "Steroid Era"
- Farewell to the "Prison Yard"
- TO the Whiner
- Doldrums
- Harbaugh and Kaepernick: The Dawning of a New Age
- 49ers of Silicon Valley
- Bibliography
