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How Peter O’Malley Saved San Francisco

Thirty years ago, the San Francisco Giants were in the midst of making their biggest free agent signing in franchise history. Barry Bonds, then 28 years old and coming off his second MVP season, would be signed to a then-massive $44 million, six-year contract that brought him to his hometown San Francisco Giants. It was a somewhat similar situation that they are going through now as they court Yankee superstar Aaron Judge, a free agent and Northern California native that also was a Giant fan growing up.

In 1992, the San Francisco Giants were a much different entity.