Home Team by Robert F. Garratt PAPERBACK 9781496214072

Home Team\nby Robert F. Garratt\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Robert F. Garratt\nTitle: Home Team\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781496214072\nISBN-10: 1496214072\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and West Coast fans had to learn to embrace the newcomers.\n\n Starting with the franchise\u2019s earliest days and following the team up to recent World Series glory, Home Team chronicles the story of the Giants and their often topsy-turvy relationship w.