Giants Baseball Aptly Described As Torture: A Fan’s 22-Year Primer of Pain

Whenever I think of my first Giants game in 1988, I almost always instinctively rub my left deltoid and wince.

I was four years old, and on a typically brisk spring afternoon at Candlestick Park, my father took my little hand as we made our way up the escalator toward our destination, four seats in the nosebleed Upper Reserved section.  Minutes later, my uncle and older cousin filled the two vacant spots to my left.

Before the days of interleague baseball, the annual preseason series with Oakland was the only opportunity for Bay Area fans to vie for bragging rights, but as...

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