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San Jose Giants games are very much rooted in the older traditions of baseball. Fans sit very close to the field, general admission seating is available for games, players sign autographs before every game, and the outfield walls are lined with adverts much like the stadiums of the 1920s and 30s were. There are no jumbotron screens, just a simple scoreboard showing the basic game data like runs, strikes, balls, outs. This was even updated in 2005 to feature lights to denote the count rather than numbers much like Fenway Park in Boston. The out-of-town scoreboard for other California League games is ... hand hung. In 2006, the simple scoreboard was replaced with a video board and the hand hung out-of-town scoreboard is no longer used. Fans are treated to all manner of little games and entertainment between innings which are hosted by improvisation performers from ComedySportz San Jose.
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San Jose Giants games are a big draw for area families because baseball is fun for all ages. The Tobacco-Free Collaborative celebrated World No Tobacco Day at the stadium to help focus public attention on the devastating toll tobacco is taking on families.
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For their first 17 years the San Jose Giants players and fans had a healthy rivalry with the Modesto A's ballclub. Modesto had been the Oakland Athletics High "A" affiliate during those years and the parent ballclub rivalry had a trickle down effect on the minor league teams. However with end of Oakland's affiliation with Modesto and their subsequent renaming as the Modesto Nuts the rivalry seems to have faded. A rivalry between San Jose and the Athletics's new "High-A" affiliate, the Stockton Portshas yet to develop.
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San Jose Giants games are often the home of Krazy George. George is a well known "fan" in the San Francisco Bay Area who attends not only SJ Giants games but ... many of the MLB, NFL, and NHL games in the region. His claim to fame is being the creator of "the wave" in Oakland on October 15, 1981 where fans rise and wave their arms in sequence around a stadium thus created a wave like effect when viewed from a distance.
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Two nights ago, the San Jose Giants won the California League Championship for the second time in three years. They did it by once again coming back from a 0-2 deficit and winning thee games in San Jose.
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Ultimately, there remains a chance the A’s could move to San Jose. Giants owner Peter Magowan says Commissioner Bud Selig is on his side and won’t take away his territorial claims, but Selig was literally a used-car salesman in his younger days, and his testimony before Congress on steroid use in baseball was shaky, to put it mildly. But even taking Selig out of the equation, 23 of Major League Baseball’s 30 owners would have to approve overturning Magowan’s rights.
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