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The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978

by Matt Sieger
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781631322181
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Advanced Publishing LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Advanced Publishing LLC
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 258
  • Original Price: USD 21.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 332 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Baseball / History and Christian Living / Social Issues

In the late 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area sportswriters labeled the growing group of born-again Christians on the San Francisco Giants the "God Squad." When the God Squadders helped propel the team to a strong 1978 season, challenging the Dodgers and Reds, they often gave God the credit in post-game interviews. The press raised no objection. But in 1979, when the Giants' fortunes faded on the field, local sportswriters were quick to blame the born-again players, claiming their newfound faith had made them passive. The God Squad features present-day interviews with two of the born-again Giants of that era as well as with two of the sportswriters who covered them. You will also re-live the exciting 1978 pennant push and get inside the motives and beliefs of the six most vocal God Squadders. The book includes 14 pages of photos and a chapter on "God Squad II," the second wave of born-again Giants in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Dave Dravecky and Hall of Famer Gary Carter.

Sieger, Matt: - Matt Sieger has a B.A. from Cornell University and a master's degree in magazine journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. He was a sports reporter for the Cortland (New York) Standard, The (Vacaville, California) Reporter, and the Martinez (California) News-Gazette. He is a Jewish believer in Jesus and, coincidentally, was born again the same summer this book highlights-1978.

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