In its continuing quest to possess every piece of data in the known universe, Google now has photos from the archives of LIFE magazine. Included are some interesting shots from the early days of the Giants in San Francisco. This one is from opening day of Candlestick Park in 1960. Seems odd to see as many boats gathered outside the Stick as there usually are around McCovey Cove.
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Very cool.
What an ok stadium that used to be.
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I wonder how far someone would have had to hit the ball for a splash hit in those days.
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It would have to be very, very far :-) The dimensions and addditional pics are here (second pic).
As you can see the outfields faced South San Fancisco :-) There are also some nice pics taken during construction at the bottom of the page.
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