It’s difficult to imagine nowadays, but the view from the Double Play bar’s windows and swinging doors on the corner of 16th and Bryant was once among the most spectacular in all of San Francisco.
What you could see from that spot on the afternoon of April 15, 1958 was something never witnessed before on the entire West Coast.
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Just across the street, Major League Baseball had arrived. And it was a sight to behold.
Seals Stadium, a neat and tidy 22,000-seat minor league ballpark tucked beside the Mission District neighborhood was the Giants’ modest starter home, and its doors were opened for the transplants from New York for the first time that day.