Giants Win 4-0

The San Francisco Giants just beat the Texas Rangers to go up 3 games to 1 in the World Series. The Giants need only one more win to win their first World Series since moving to San Francisco. They last won the World Series in 1954 as the New York Giants. To give an idea of how different things were back then:

• Dwight David Eisenhower was in his first of two terms as President
• Republicans would lose control of Congress a month later. Democrats would control Congress uninterrupted for the next 26 years, and the House of Representatives uninterrupted for the next 40
• The Giants played their home games at the Polo Grounds
• Robert F. Wagner, Jr. was the Mayor of New York, the city the Giants called home
• Referring to the New York Giants meant the baseball club. If one wanted to refer to the football team they would say, "the New York Football Giants"
• The Brooklyn Dodgers still played across town at Ebbets Field
• The New York Mets, the team I root for, would not play their first game for another 7 1/2 years
• It was less than 5 months after the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, passage of the Civil Rights Act was still nearly another 10 years away, and passage of the Voting Rights Act still nearly another 11 years away
• It was still nearly another 7 years under President Obama was born

The Giants now stand one win away from changing all that and bringing the World Series trophy to San Francisco for the first time.