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>>>Just a bit more about the Seals. They were a farm club for Boston. During the Spring you would see the Seals and Red Sox play a few games in San Francisco. Boy, can I remember Ted Williams! He is one of my favorite players.
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>>Mine too........especially the way he went out. Twenty plus years and he still hit over 300.
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>>As far as the Seal go.....I, of course, never got to see them. The only thing I know is that Joe D's 56 game hitting streak was not his longest. He had a 60+ game streak while with the Seals.
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>If I remember correctly, Ted Williams last at bat was a home run. Even with the interruptions to his baseball career due to his military participation in WWII and Korea, he had an outstanding career.


I honestly believe that he may well have been the finest pure hitter baseball has ever seen. He had incredible vision (which is why he held marksmanship records in the air force). He once 'praised' umpires by saying that he thought they were remarkable and they could tell the difference between a ball and a strike to half an inch. The problem, he said, was that he could tell the difference to a quarter of an inch.

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>Seals Stadium was cool and more so for adults. There was one street intersection involving the stadium that was very interesting – if you like beer! The SE corner of the intersection was occupied by the stadium. Each of the three remaining intersections were occupied by breweries – Lucky Lager, Bergermeister , and Hamm’s. Free samples were given at Hamm’s after the games. We called Seals Stadium "The Green Monster", as it was painted Kelly Green. As I was a kid I did not get to sample the offerings of the breweries.
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>Seals Stadium (16th and Potrero Streets) was in a nice location of town for good weather. The Giants had a stadium build at Candlestick which was windy and talk about FOG!
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>When consultants were hired to choose a new location for a baseball stadium guess what they found? The area of 16th and Potrero is said to be in the sun belt of San Francisco (yes we do have sunshine – some times) and was the “ideal location for a ball park”! Wow! Oh well. So now the new SBC Park is near the bay about one mile away from the old “Green Monster”.
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>The breweries are long gone along with Seals Stadium.