San Francisco Giants: Still Painful After 40 Years

The San Francisco Giants might win the 2010 National League pennant.

If they do, they could meet the New York Yankees in the World Series.

On the weekend of June 7, 2002, at Yankee Stadium, the Giants and Yankees played each other for the first time since Willie McCovey lined out to Bobby Richardson to end the 1962 World Series.

40 years later, many of the players involved vividly remember the final inning of that final game.

Felipe Alou, who was the Giants' lead off hitter and right fielder in game seven, was still upset.

"That's something that's going to die with me. I didn't do my job. That was the lowest point of my life. It was the kind of thing that's engraved on your life, your mind and your heart," he said. ...

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