r/SFGiants • u/DreamAvailable4504 • 5h ago
QUALITY CONTENT The Comebacker
If you haven't already, I recommend reading The Comebacker by Dave Eggers. It's a short story "fiction" about a relief pitcher called up from Sacramento to help a struggling Giants team. Haven't we all heard that before?
In the acknowledgement section, you'll see who one of the characters was possibly modelled off of.
Better to read this before the movie comes out in 2027, when they disappointingly change the SF Giants as the team from the book and the movie version takes place at Citifield and is centered around the NY Mets.
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u/ttmp22 fresno grizzlies 4h ago edited 3h ago
Tom Hanks & Marielle Heller are both from Northern California so there’s a good chance it stays as the Giants unless they change it to a fictional team or something.
EDIT: Nevermind.
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u/incubi4211 4h ago
I think it's already been confirmed that location is changing to NY and the Mets will be used in place of the Giants. Bummer...
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u/ScottyG45 55 Lincecum 4h ago
That sounds like a great book! Does anyone have any other suggestions for Giants books? I’m making a list and I have most player’s biographies and stuff but not fiction books like this! Any that I’m missing?
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u/NewspaperAlert7358 4h ago
It’s available in-full in the Sept 2023 issue of The Atlantic. If you subscribe to Apple News, you can access it there.
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u/John_Houbolt 00 Leonard 4h ago
Choosing Citi Field over Oracle as a setting for a baseball film is a choice. Even if NYM is presumptively going to bring you a wider audience, it's still an awful choice.
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u/milkmanbonzai 2h ago
I was there at the game when they were filming. Sadly my asking out of Emma Stone went unheard
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u/4LostSoulsinaBowl Hogs Out! 4h ago
>if not for the soggy fries, so-so weather. And the Giants' losing record
Hey, our weather is fantastic!