Will Clark’s No. 22 now hangs with 12 others in left field of Oracle Park after number retirement on Saturday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Will Clark seemingly always saved his best for when the lights were brightest. On Saturday at Oracle Park, a fitting 22 years since he hung ’em up and nearly three decades since his last game in orange and black, an emotional Clark was, once again, ready for the moment.
Clark, who became the face of a generation of Giants baseball in the late ’80s, said he had written the speech within a day or two after receiving the news that his number would one day go up in the rafters . But he was forced to wait once the ceremony, originally scheduled for 2020, was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Krukow and his wife, Jennifer, opened up their home to Clark for his first two seasons in San Francisco, where, Krukow said, they watched him eat sugary cereal and watch cartoons off the field before turning into an animal between the lines. Mays couldn’t attend in-person but needed only a couple penned sentences to send possibly the most validating message of the entire cast of speakers: “Welcome to the club. You earned it.”
Krukow recalled his first spring training start from Clark’s rookie season. He was struggling to work out some kinks in his first exhibition, and Clark called timeout from first base. He came to the mound with a message: “Hey, if we’re gonna win this game, you’re gonna have to be better than that.”That was the attitude needed to take a team from 100 losses in 1985 to a postseason berth in 1987.
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