NHL.com - The National Hockey League. ESPN: The Worldwide Leader In Sports. Yahoo! Sports - Sports News, Scores, Rumors, Fantasy Games, and more. Splashing Pumpkins - a San Francisco Giants blog. MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com. Extra Baggs. Roger Craig has a bunch of championship rings. He has one from the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers he claims is now worth about $60,000. He has another from the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks he says Bob Brenly paid $9,000 out of his own pocket to give to him. But the one he wore to the Farewell Candlestick celebration Thursday night was his 1989 National League Championship ring from the Giants. “That’s my favorite,” said Roger, now 84 but looking very spry and still very much possessing the gift of baseball gab.
I was fortunate enough to cover Craig his first two years as Giants manager and he is one of the nicest and most engaging men I have ever encountered covering professional sports. He noted that he now has a pacemaker and has had a number of heart stents but added that he can still shoot his age on the course and sometimes lower. And he can still talk baseball with great analytic acuity, adding regular dashes of humor. It was great to see him. If they only knew. Sports Fantasy Hockey.