Nobody would ever mistake Peter Magowan for Willie McCovey and he certainly wasn’t beloved as Big Mac, but his place in Giants lore was already secure before his death yesterday.
It has been a very strange and rough offseason for the Giants on a psychological level. Franchise pillars McCovey and Magowan are now gone and Hank Greenwald, a famous voice, also died. Time waits for no one and an inevitable turnover of the #ForeverGiants roster was bound to happen, but it doesn’t make it any easier.
As much as McCovey was embraced by the city, Magowan embraced the Giants and through that passion kept it in the city after the franchise’s fortunes had reached their lowest point.