Chris Haft

Thursday, August 11, 7:00 p.m.

This Is Our Time! The 2010 World Series Champions San Francisco Giants. The Inside Story: Improbable. Wild. Unforgettable. 

Baseball has life encoded within it as completely as DNA does: the world’s deepest wisdom, edgiest laughter, joys and sorrows. Among the millions who chase baseball’s dream, though, only a few scale the sport’s most rarified heights—not only in terms of victory, but in becoming true selfless teams who are vivid role models, in a gritty age beyond the destruction of heroes.

Finally, in the year 2010 AD, after 53 years of toil and struggle in their California incarnation, the San Francisco Giants players, organization, and die-hard fans celebrated their ascent to the pinnacle of American sports as World Series Champions in a fashion that captured the imagination of baseball fans around the world. With uniquely wild style, the 2010 San Francisco Giants follow the 1969 New York Mets and 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers into history as a World Championship team whose success was supposed to be impossible.

Haft and co-author Eric Alan go deep inside Giants Nation to tell the amazing but true stories of this team’s improbable rise to greatness, fueled not by superstars with super egos, but by a band of castoffs, journeymen, and lovers of the great game of baseball, who sacrificed for each other to reach the lofty goal of World Champions.

Menlo Park native and Stanford grad Chris Haft is the MLB.com beat writer for the Giants, responsible for covering the Giants day-to-day for MLB.com, which means most of the stories that appear on www.sfgiants.com.

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