Giants celebrate special anniversary
Published 4/15/2008 by Chris Haft at Major League Baseball News
April 15, 1958 still looms large, like a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge or the majesty of a Willie Mays home run, to those who experienced it. Fifty years later, the Giants' first game in San Francisco remains special.
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