The Return of Milkmen: The Giants took two out of three games from the Diamondbacks. Zito again did his job of keeping the Giants in the first game a 4-2 victory. The second game win by the Giants featured a very strong performance by Vogelsong and the return of milkmen to San Francisco baseball after an absence of sixty-six years. Arizona won the last game of the series proving again that sometimes things never change. Goldschmidt homered off of Lincecum and Kennedy pitched a gem against the Giants. Cabrera recorded a record tying 51 hits in May to end the month with a league leading average of .373.
 |
| Borden's milkmen or SF Seals ? |
Many of the fans in attendance at Tuesday's game probably never even heard of a milkman. A group of about six loyal Giant fans dressed in all white as milkman with white caps and orange ties sat in the left field stands and brought attention to themselves and TV in order to promote votes for 'Melky' Cabrera for the upcoming All Star game in Kansas City
Part way through 1946 season the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League changed their cap color from the normal blue to white pin strip with a blue visor. Many Oakland Oaks fans of that era said that the Seals looked like milkman with their new caps and that the picture shown is really that of the Borden's milkmen of San Francisco.
No comments:
Post a Comment