Giants Fever in a Post-2010 World

August 31, 2011 by Jeff Polman · Leave a Comment

I saw my first signs of acute Giants fever in the waning weekends of their 2010 championship year, when the team was in a neck-and-neck battle with San Diego for the NL West title. It wasn’t your standard rising crowd roar that accompanies two-strike counts for the home pitcher late in the game. It wasn’t […]

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“Havana Heat” by Darryl Brock

February 16, 2011 by Jim Elfers · Leave a Comment

Fans of Darryl Brock will find much to admire in his novel Havana Heat. It is very reminiscent in feel and tone to his classic If I Never Get Back and its sequel Two In the Field. There is no time traveling in this novel but it is aÂ travel back in time. The hero […]

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