Giants: Where Have You Gone? [Hardcover]

Matt Johanson (Author), Wylie Wong (Author)

Book Description

Series: Where Have You Gone? | Publication Date: March 1, 2005

This offering in the continuing "Where Have You Gone?" series focuses on the lost heroes and fan favorites from San Francisco Giants baseball history.

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About the Author

Matt Johanson teaches social studies and journalism at Castro Valley High School in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a freelance journalist, he contributes articles about sports, the outdoors, education and politics to newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Jose Mercury News. Matt enjoys running, rock climbing and skiing. He lives in Castro Valley with his wife, Karen.

Wylie Wong is a journalist with 15 years' experience working for newspapers, magazines and Internet media companies. He is a former business and technology reporter for CNETNews.com, where he won a national award for investigative reporting by the Society of Professional Journalists. Wylie, now a freelance writer, is a San Francisco native who lives in Phoenix with his wife, Miiko.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Sports Publishing (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582617791
• ISBN-13: 978-1582617794
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,851,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Catching up with some obscure stars, July 20, 2005

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Josh Neufeld "stoshmaster" (Brooklyn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Giants: Where Have You Gone? (Hardcover)

I got Giants: Where Have You Gone? as a gift and really, really enjoyed it. Growing up as a Giants fan in the late 1970s/early 1980s, my era was that of (among others) Jack Clark, Willie McCovey, Johnnie LeMaster, Will Clark, John Montefusco, Jim Barr, Greg Minton, Joel Youngblood, Matt Williams, Dave Dravecky, Mark Davis, and Kevin Mitchell. Not exactly the team's glory years, so you can imagine how excited I was to catch up with all those guys in the book's pages. It was fascinating reading, reminiscing about their careers and then learning about what happened in their lives after they left the Giants.

I love how the book doesn't just focus on the stars and Hall-of-Famers (though I read the entries on Mays, Cepeda, Marichal, and Perry with great attention), but visits the guys with the short careers or bench players with equal interest. Also, the relatively short chapters make the book absolutely perfect for bathroom reading!

Kudos to Matt Johanson and Wylie Wong for a terrific book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book rocks!, March 21, 2005

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Morry Angell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giants: Where Have You Gone? (Hardcover)

The authors did a great job tracking down the former Giants with the most interesting stories. The stories are human, real and well reported. In particular, the Jack Clark chapter is a riot and a must-read for every Dodger-hating Giants fan. Every Giants fan's library should boast a copy.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for all baseball fans, March 15, 2005

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Tom D. "Opportunity is limited only by imagin... (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giants: Where Have You Gone? (Hardcover)

I just got this book and couldn't put it down from page 1. If I were teaching Baseball History 101, "Giants: Where Have You Gone" would be required reading.