Fifty Years by the Bay

About the Book

“Fifty Years by the Bay” is a literary documentary, covering all of the significant memories in San Francisco Giant history.  This detailed account commences with the move West in 1958, through the 40 seasons at Candlestick Park, to a new beginning at Pacific Bell Park, into a new millennium, and onto the 2007 season.  The work relives the key moments, teams, players and figures that made the franchise great. All of the memorable and celebrated moments are chronicled, including:

·        Through the years with the team, 1958 - 2007

·        Top individual game feats

·        Significant seasonal performances

·        Successful career achievements

·        Features on all of the great San Francisco Giant players, including:

·        Willie Mays

About the Author

Author Profile

Chuck Nan is a sports journalist and broadcaster in the Bay Area.  Nan received his Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.  For many years, he worked in the financial services industry, holding positions in operations, customer service and project management.

After a successful business career, Nan started his own firm, SportsQuest Tours that specialized in fan travel to sporting events worldwide.  He also served as Media Relations Director, and co-hosted several popular shows, for a local all-sports format radio station, covering all of the local professional and college teams and many high profile sports events.

Chuck has recently turned to the written form of sports journalism.  He is the Sports Editor for his hometown paper the Martinez News-Gazette.  His first formally published piece was entitled “San Francisco Giants Spring Tour of Japan, March 1970” in Elysian Fields Quarterly-The Baseball Review in summer, 2004.  Chuck has also had smaller articles published by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) in their annual releases, The Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime.

Nan is also involved with youth baseball as a coach, instructor and administrator.  In the past years, Chuck has worked with the San Francisco Giants Youth Baseball Summer Camp and EJ Sports, run by former Giants’ players, Rob Andrews and Erik Johnson, respectively and BayArea Baseball of Hayward.  He has also worked with the baseball program at Alhambra High School in Martinez.

A true native of San Francisco, Chuck grew up just 10 minutes from Candlestick Park.  The Giants were his first sports love at age six, and still are.  He has been a season ticket holder for many years and seen several hundred games in his life.