chefsos
10-23-2013, 02:00 PM
Amazing.
They brought together interviews from ballplayers and all kinds of people who were in San Francisco that day, and the compilation runs like a timeline. To me, this was a riveting read. It's long. Here are some snippets:
...From what Bench said and what McCovey said, Mays didn't want to come that day. He was spooked by the weather, by the stillness and the heat. He didn't like the air.Just a minute before the earthquake, he said all the cops' horses went crazy. They could feel it before it happened.If you're in the Giants locker room, you have to go into this tunnel.... At that point, the tunnel began to turn, left-right, left-right, kind of like those fun houses at the fair.When this thing came, it was very audible and visible and noticeable as coming out of right field, which faces south. It hit the ballpark and made waves in the outfield...If you were standing where I was standing, you could see it come through the outfield, keep going through the infield, and then continue into downtown San Francisco.After the earthquake, the Marina was closed off, and nobody could get in there without special permission...As I was walking along the line, I noticed that [Joe] DiMaggio was standing waiting in the middle of the line. I said, "Mr. DiMaggio, what are you doing?" He said he was waiting to see if his house was OK to go back to. I said, "Let me take you to the front of the line," and he was very gracious and smiled and said, "No, thank you, I'll wait my turn. Everybody else is in the same place as I am."As Murray Chass noted in the New York Times, during the delay Paul Tagliabue had been named NFL commissioner, televangelist Jim Bakker had been sent to the big house, and Hungary had become a republic.http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9859539/view/full/the-1989-world-series-earthquake-oral-history
They brought together interviews from ballplayers and all kinds of people who were in San Francisco that day, and the compilation runs like a timeline. To me, this was a riveting read. It's long. Here are some snippets:
...From what Bench said and what McCovey said, Mays didn't want to come that day. He was spooked by the weather, by the stillness and the heat. He didn't like the air.Just a minute before the earthquake, he said all the cops' horses went crazy. They could feel it before it happened.If you're in the Giants locker room, you have to go into this tunnel.... At that point, the tunnel began to turn, left-right, left-right, kind of like those fun houses at the fair.When this thing came, it was very audible and visible and noticeable as coming out of right field, which faces south. It hit the ballpark and made waves in the outfield...If you were standing where I was standing, you could see it come through the outfield, keep going through the infield, and then continue into downtown San Francisco.After the earthquake, the Marina was closed off, and nobody could get in there without special permission...As I was walking along the line, I noticed that [Joe] DiMaggio was standing waiting in the middle of the line. I said, "Mr. DiMaggio, what are you doing?" He said he was waiting to see if his house was OK to go back to. I said, "Let me take you to the front of the line," and he was very gracious and smiled and said, "No, thank you, I'll wait my turn. Everybody else is in the same place as I am."As Murray Chass noted in the New York Times, during the delay Paul Tagliabue had been named NFL commissioner, televangelist Jim Bakker had been sent to the big house, and Hungary had become a republic.http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9859539/view/full/the-1989-world-series-earthquake-oral-history