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Turn back the clock 1962: when the Giants lost a heartbreaker to Yankees: after a down-to-the-wire pennant race with the rival Dodgers, San Francisco bowed to New York in an exciting World Series.

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| October 01, 2002 | Bush, David | COPYRIGHT 2002 Century Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE GIANTS' 1962 SEASON, 40 years later still the team's San Francisco high point, is most remembered for how it ended.

Willie McCovey's line drive to Bobby Richardson, the final out of the seventh game of the World Series, has the historical clout of a Big Event. Everyone old enough to have followed the team knows where they were at that time, that day. The younger fans have heard the story so often they feel like they saw it live.

In one of the greatest of pennant races, the Giants battled the Dodgers through a confrontational ride that saw them take the league lead in May, fall seemingly hopelessly behind and then pull even on the last day of the ...

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