By Ryan Moses
Published Nov. 4, 2010 in Santa Cruz Sentinel
Take a rock festival, add a peace rally and multiply by a sports bar full of a million satisfied fans, and that's a rough description of the scene on the streets of San Francisco for the Giants' World Series championship ticker-tape parade and celebration ceremony Wednesday.
Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's soon-to-be former mayor, presented the team with the key to the city on the steps of City Hall and christened the Nov. 3 Giants Day -- also known as Call In Sick-apalooza throughout the Bay Area.
Giants fans flooded the city to watch their team finally hoist the trophy it had failed to win since moving to California in 1958. Some made the pilgrimage from out of state to attend a celebration 52 years in the making.
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