San Francisco has EXCEPTIONAL “points of pride”… Golden Gate

Bridge…Fisherman’s Wharf… Tony Bennett’s singing---“I left my heart”…

world’s greatest skyline, topped by Transamerica Pyramid… “SNAKE-y”--gorgeous

Lombard Street…Nob Hill… LITTLE CABLE CARS “that go halfway to the stars”…

Alcatraz,,, also, the football 49ers, winners of five

Super Bowls…and now, baseball’s World Series champion Giants---an ancient

franchise, long-ago transplanted from New York… It’s the first time the Giants

won baseball’s ultimate prize since 1954--“when the HERO was a kid named Willie

Mays”---Willie was a 23-season WONDER---he’s now 79--lives in San Francisco…

today’s Giants TOO have “a gifted newby”---Gerald “Buster” Posey III---

TWO YEARS AGO he played for the FSU Seminoles… Buster is the

second “rookie catcher” EVER to be a World Series “starter”---the first?--Yogi Berra in

1947… In the ’90s, San Francisco almost LOST its Giants to Tampa Bay---which had no

baseball at the time…San Francisco ownership was “ravenous” for a new ballpark…

then--as though from “a magician’s top hat”--the Giants plucked a fabulous “downtown”

facility---“on the bay”---10 minutes from the city’s great sites… the Giants are drawing

“huge crowds”---SOON a NEW World Series banner will be hung… Hey, Tony Bennett-

--about time to “add a new verse”… I’m Hubert Mizell, and that’s what I think.