The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957 by Brent P Kelley

The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957 by Brent P Kelley

The San Francisco Seals were members of baseball's Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1958. Arguably the most successful minor league franchise ever, the Seals held the minor league attendance record from 1946 until it was broken by Louisville in the 1980s, and remained independently owned until 1956. The Seals were also Joe DiMaggio's first team and many another major league star was on the team's roster on his climb up the ranks. This work is a collection of oral histories of players who took the field for the Seals from 1946 through 1957, just before the Giants came to San Francisco and when the Seals played their final game. Ferris Fain said of the 1946 Seals, "I just think that that was the best ballclub that I've ever played on, including major league. I mean, as a team." Frank Seward, Don Trower, Jack Brewer, Roy Nicely, Neill Sheridan, Joe Brovia, Bill Werle, Con Dempsey, Dario Lodigiani, Lou Burdette, Ed Cereghino, Bill Bradford, Reno Cheso, Nini Tornay, Jerry Zuvela, Leo Righetti, Jim Westlake, Ted Beard, Chuck Stevens, Bob DiPietro, Don Lenhardt, Riverboat Smith, Jack Spring, and Bert Thiel also reminisce about their careers with the Seals.

“provide[s] a splendid oral history of the Seals”—Sports Collectors Digest; “it was a very different timeAnd now, perhaps more than ever, it’s rewarding to travel back to that time and, through Kelley’s oral history, revisit men whose baseball lives were blessed even though most of them never made more than a few bucks playing it...chronicles the old-timers’ still-rich remembrances very well”—San Francisco Chronicle.

Brent Kelley, a retired equine veterinarian from Lexington, Kentucky, is the author of numerous McFarland baseball books.

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ISBN 13	9780786411887
ISBN 10	0786411880
Title	The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957
Author	Brent P Kelley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McFarland & Co Inc
Year published	2002-05-03
Number of pages	299
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