Imagine Jim Barr’s excitement upon being summed to the major leagues for the first time. Imagine his amazement when the Giants showed him to his locker — right next to the locker of Willie McCovey.
“He meant so much to me,” Barr said, appearing on KNBR Wednesday night, just hours after McCovey, a Giants icon and baseball Hall of Famer, died at 80.
“Willie was not only a great player,” Barr told KNBR’s Drew Hoffar, “he was a guy you can talk to, easy-going. If you had a question you sat down and talked to him and he would give you an answer.