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	<description>Dan Fost&#039;s book on baseball&#039;s greatest Giants, coming in Spring 2010 from MVP Books</description>
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		<title>Pennant fever! It&#8217;s torture!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Giants torture us, yet reward our suffering with the greatest of baseball treats: a pennant race. ]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=245</link>
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		<title>Hall of Fame memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Giants honored Monte Irvin by retiring his number, and five Hall of Famers came out to pay tribute: Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda and Gaylord Perry. ]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=240</link>
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		<title>The book goes local!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new venue is now selling &#8220;Giants Past and Present&#8221;: Diamond Sports, a baseball card and memorabilia shop in my hometown of San Rafael. I spend many happy hours there with my son, and we always come away with some treasure.
Now they are carrying the book, with every copy signed, and the book will also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=236</link>
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		<title>Taking it to the A&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Fost will read from his book "Giants Past and Present" at Oakland's Laurel Bookstore, 4100 MacArthur Blvd., at 7 pm Thursday, June 24, telling stories of the Giants and A's longstanding rivalry. ]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=232</link>
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		<title>Paging the Panda: Giant nicknames now on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In "Giants Past and Present," from MVP Books, author Dan Fost tells of the colorful history Giant nicknames, from Smiling Mickey Welch in the 19th century, through other pitching greats like “Big Six” Christy Mathewson and “The Meal Ticket” Carl Hubbell, and today’s Tim “The Freak” Lincecum, and Pablo “Panda” Sandoval. Are nicknames disappearing from baseball? And who is Frosty the Sneerman? Watch and find out. This video features some of the photos from the book, as well as Fost telling some of the stories from the field at AT&#038;T Park.]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Borders by the Ballpark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a big baseball day for me. At noon, my son Harry&#8217;s Cubs play for the Mill Valley City Championship. From 3:30 to 6 pm, I&#8217;ll be signing books at the Borders by AT&#38;T Park. And then at 6:05, I&#8217;ll hustle across the street for the Giants-A&#8217;s game tonight.
It was great to see the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=221</link>
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		<title>Left-handed compliments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite Giants blogs, El Lefty Malo, has a Q&#038;A with me in which we discuss Horace Stoneham, Darryl Spencer, Barry Bonds, and more. It's a lot of fun, check it out! ]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=217</link>
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		<title>Me and the Mad Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Fost, author of the book "Giants Past and Present," spends a half hour on the air with the biggest San Francisco Giant fan in New York, Chris Russo, on his show Mad Dog Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio. ]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=200</link>
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		<title>I love (my two days in) L.A.!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I survived. I wore a Giants cap and shirt to Los Angeles and lived to tell about it.
I was a panelist on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and can’t say enough good things about the great time I had in enemy territory. My panel was titled “Take Me Out to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Yogi and the Giants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Fost has a successful homecoming, reading from his book at the Yogi Berra Museum in his native state of New Jersey. ]]></description>
		<link>http://giantspastandpresent.com/?p=176</link>
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