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San Francisco Giants: The Importance of the Giants-Dodgers Rivalry

It was obviously cold and windy. It was Candlestick. And it was the middle of June. The stomping of feet and clapping of hands sometimes happened whether something good happened on the field or not. But it didn’t matter in the least, since the two teams doing battle on the field were giving everything they had to secure victory.

These two teams, the Giants and Dodgers, have been leaning up against one another in the same division since May 3rd, 1890. And just like the ground beneath our feet in California, mountains can be made from two forces pushing together.