Oh, so it's a bigger deal than just winning

[elainegrey]

I am not such a fan that i keep up with the details of baseball, but a little reading this morning makes me realize how important this win is to the club.

From http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101101&content_id=15949454&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Not only did the Giants win their first Series since relocating from New York to San Francisco in 1958, but they also earned baseball's biggest prize for the first time since 1954 -- ending the Majors' third-longest dry spell. The Cubs (102 years) and Indians (62 years) are left to look upon the Giants enviously.

No longer will the Giants be regarded as a gold-plated oddity. They won more games between 1958 and 1971 than any other ballclub with rosters that included, at various times, future Hall of Famers Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda and Gaylord Perry. But they captured just one National League pennant and one NL West title during that span. San Francisco met with frustration in its three previous Series visits in 1962, 1989 and 2002.

From http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/01/SPBI1G5C40.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz148PQAbF7

(11-02) 04:00 PDT ARLINGTON, Texas -- Fifty-six years later, the Say Hey Kid's team is a champion again.

"Oh, man, I don't get overly excited about baseball, but looking at these kids and how excited they were, I had some tears in my eyes," Willie Mays said from his Peninsula home shortly after the Giants won the World Series on Monday night, "because you never know, this might be the last time something like this happens to some of these kids. It's a wonderful feeling for me, and I'm sure it's a wonderful feeling for these kids and their families."

Mays, surrounded by a half-dozen friends, had to leave the room after watching the final out, Brian Wilson striking out Nelson Cruz. "I had to get out of here for a minute because I'm not used to getting emotional like this."

Of course, Mays didn't think his first World Series title would be his last. The four-game sweep of Cleveland in 1954, featuring the greatest defensive highlight in Series history - his Game 1 catch that robbed Vic Wertz at New York's Polo Grounds - was the last time the Giants won it all.

Until Monday.

Mays' Giants lost the '62 Series to the Yankees in seven, ...