Congratulations to Mark Nixon for an epic 14-7 post season run that led to the 1970 Giants capturing the KOD24 title. The Jints were left for dead as they stumbled down the stretch and barely qualified for a 3 team play in series. The Jints lost the draw, along with Pittsburgh, and had to play a play in to the play in game. After defeating the Bucs they had to defeat the ‘48 Dodgers. That earned them the #5 wild card slot and a trip to Riverfront stadium vs the Reds. The Jints dispatched of the “little red wind up toy” and headed to face the #1 seeded Phightin’s. After shocking the Phiting’s in a hard fought 5 game LDS they then outlasted the Redbirds in a classic 7 game LCS, which punched their ticket to the World Series only to face the #1 overall Boston Red Sox. After dropping the first 2 games of the series it looked like Cinderella’s foot was too swollen to wear the glass slipper. Defying the odds manager Nixon righted the ship and found a proverbial “shoe-horn” to make it fit and sweep the final 4 games from the Sahx, incluing a 9-8 nail biting game 6 clincher.
In all the KOD’s that I’ve had the pleasure to be a part of I would have to say that this one by far had the most unlikely post season in our storied history. During the run Mark said to me that “this post season run is really emblimatic of the theme we are playing” (teams that switched managers during the season). Mark took over the team from Larry Reeves, who had managed them during most of the season. Larry had huge work committments and other responsibilites to tend to and couldn’t pilot the team during the hectic first week of the post season. After Mark got on that incredible roll, Larry sat back and let him have the reigns. Rest assured Larry was in a tough place. He wanted to manage his beloved Jints, but he also didn’t want to slow down the momentum that Mark had going. It takes an awful to of pride and patience to step aside and let another man bring it home. This is why we will proudly list the 1970 Giants as KOD24 Champions and list Reeves/Nixon as the winning manager. It always takes team work, to make a dream work ! Congratulations, my friends on a job well done !
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