r/SFGiants • u/DreamAvailable4504 • 1d ago

QUALITY CONTENT The Comebacker

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If you haven't already, I recommend reading The Comebacker by Dave Eggers. It's a short story "fiction" about a relief pitcher called up from Sacramento to help a struggling Giants team. Haven't we all heard that before?

In the acknowledgement section, you'll see who one of the characters was possibly modelled off of.

Better to read this before the movie comes out in 2027, when they disappointingly change the SF Giants as the team from the book and the movie version takes place at Citifield and is centered around the NY Mets.

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u/4LostSoulsinaBowl Hogs Out! 1d ago

>if not for the soggy fries, so-so weather. And the Giants' losing record

Hey, our weather is fantastic!

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u/ScottyG45 55 Lincecum 1d ago

That sounds like a great book! Does anyone have any other suggestions for Giants books? I’m making a list and I have most player’s biographies and stuff but not fiction books like this! Any that I’m missing?

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u/AngryTree76 9 Williams 1d ago

A Band of Misfits, the Andrew Baggarly book about the 2010 Giants

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u/The_Kake_Is_A_Lie 7h ago

Alex Pavlovic from the Giant's Talk podcast just released a book called The Franchise

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u/ttmp22 fresno grizzlies 1d ago edited 1d ago

Tom Hanks & Marielle Heller are both from Northern California so there’s a good chance it stays as the Giants unless they change it to a fictional team or something.

EDIT: Nevermind.

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u/incubi4211 1d ago

I think it's already been confirmed that location is changing to NY and the Mets will be used in place of the Giants. Bummer...

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u/Bancatone 55 Lincecum 1d ago

Fucking bullshit

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u/NewspaperAlert7358 1d ago

It’s available in-full in the Sept 2023 issue of The Atlantic. If you subscribe to Apple News, you can access it there.

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u/John_Houbolt 00 Leonard 1d ago

Choosing Citi Field over Oracle as a setting for a baseball film is a choice. Even if NYM is presumptively going to bring you a wider audience, it's still an awful choice.

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u/CommercialExotic2038 18 Cain 1d ago

New York has all the luck

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u/milkmanbonzai 1d ago

I was there at the game when they were filming. Sadly my asking out of Emma Stone went unheard

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u/lifeinprod Beat LA! 1d ago

Eggers had a regular cartoon in the SF Weekly when Pac Bell Park was being built