San Francisco Bay Area’s 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time

The San Francisco Bay Area is known for many things—some good and some bad unless you happen to be a resident of these parts.

In that case, there is no bad...just good, better, and seismic.

We've got the Golden Gate Bridge, the beautiful San Francisco Bay, the equally picturesque Oakland Hills, the two major earthquakes (1906 and 1989), the Gold Rush, the hippie histories penned in equal parts by activists in Berkeley and free-lovers in the Haight-Ashbury, and other landmarks of the architectural/natural/historical variety.

However, the figurative and literal landscape has never been known as a particularly sporting one.

This despite boasting six franchises from the four major American leagues—the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics from MLB, ...

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