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Mark DeweyHost
I went to the ballpark that day thinking it would be more or less like any other getaway day.
Our team, the San Francisco Giants, would play against the Atlanta Braves, and then after the game, we'd get on a flight heading to Chicago for a series with the Cubs.
More than that, it turned out to be, day after day, an unfolding series of unusual days, weeks, and the final two months of the 1996 season.
Over the past 30 years, I have, on several occasions, been asked about that day in July 1996.
Almost always, it has been in an interview format, either on a podcast or a live event.
And I've never truly answered the question, not because I was unwilling, but because the limited time format made it impossible to answer the question properly or fully.
For a variety of reasons, some more concrete than others, each of the six years prior to this one, I chose not to do so.
But today, I have decided that to the best of my ability, I will give as clear and accurate of an answer regarding the events of that day and the things that followed in that season.
I knew well before arriving at the ballpark that day that I would not be participating in the on-field pregame activities, and those included a select, maybe four or five, a select few Giants players and staff reading a list of names of people who died from AIDS.
And then also, closer to game time, both teams, the Braves and the Giants, gathering in the outfield with others to form a human ribbit- a human ribbon, like the one that was used to represent the search for a cure for AIDS as well as the very event happening that day.
As I mentioned, only a few participated in reading, and while most players and staff for both teams, the Braves and the Giants, would participate in forming the ribbon in the outfield, several would miss out, and it would be for various reasons.
It wasn't like they called out the names for players and coaches on both teams, and then the, the people ran out.
So unless a person was paying particular and close attention, there would be really no way to know what players and staff went into the outfield.
I went to the ballpark that day thinking it would be more or less like any other getaway day.
Our team, the San Francisco Giants, would play against the Atlanta Braves, and then after the game, we'd get on a flight heading to Chicago for a series with the Cubs.
More than that, it turned out to be, day after day, an unfolding series of unusual days, weeks, and the final two months of the 1996 season.
Over the past 30 years, I have, on several occasions, been asked about that day in July 1996.
Almost always, it has been in an interview format, either on a podcast or a live event.
And I've never truly answered the question, not because I was unwilling, but because the limited time format made it impossible to answer the question properly or fully.
For a variety of reasons, some more concrete than others, each of the six years prior to this one, I chose not to do so.
But today, I have decided that to the best of my ability, I will give as clear and accurate of an answer regarding the events of that day and the things that followed in that season.
I knew well before arriving at the ballpark that day that I would not be participating in the on-field pregame activities, and those included a select, maybe four or five, a select few Giants players and staff reading a list of names of people who died from AIDS.
And then also, closer to game time, both teams, the Braves and the Giants, gathering in the outfield with others to form a human ribbit- a human ribbon, like the one that was used to represent the search for a cure for AIDS as well as the very event happening that day.
As I mentioned, only a few participated in reading, and while most players and staff for both teams, the Braves and the Giants, would participate in forming the ribbon in the outfield, several would miss out, and it would be for various reasons.
It wasn't like they called out the names for players and coaches on both teams, and then the, the people ran out.
So unless a person was paying particular and close attention, there would be really no way to know what players and staff went into the outfield.
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