SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – When Jim Davenport died in February, the Giants lost one of the original links to the franchise’s inception in San Francisco.
The front office lost a reservoir of institutional knowledge that cannot be quantified. The coaches lost a trusted friend who could peek over his morning newspaper and deliver a line that would have them laughing into their coffee cups. The minor leaguers lost an instructor who taught them how to square to bunt, how to be straight with people and how to meet life head-on.
Gary Davenport lost all those things, and more.