![]() Superstar outfielder Barry Bonds (whose father Bobby was a fixture in the San Francisco outfield in the late 1960s and early ’70s) came to the Giants in 1993 and began an assault on baseball’s record books with his outstanding home-run hitting. The event was made even more prominent by the fact that many television stations were broadcasting live from Candlestick Park before the game, so images of the earthquake and its aftermath were instantly carried to households across the country. While the Giants’ return to the World Series in 1989 did not feature much memorable on-field play-the team was swept in four games by the Oakland A’s-it was noteworthy for a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the Bay Area shortly before game three of the series was scheduled to begin.
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