San Francisco was preparing to pull out all the stops as baseball's Giants returned home to celebrate their World Series triumph over the Texas Rangers,
San Francisco was preparing to pull out all the stops as baseball's Giants returned home to celebrate their World Series triumph over the Texas Rangers.
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| Streets Ahead: A cable car carrying members of the San Francisco Giants gets covered with confetti during the Giants' victory parade yesterday in San Francisco, California |
The Giants headed west from Texas on a charter flight late on Monday, and their victory parade was scheduled for Wednesday.
President Barack Obama has already weighed in with a congratulatory phone call, telling them he's looking forward to congratulating the team in person at the White House for winning their first World Series title in more than 50 years. The White House said Obama telephoned those in the baseball organisation and recalled the excitement he felt when his beloved Chicago White Sox broke their World Series drought.
The Giants had not won a World Series title since 1954, four years before they moved from New York to San Francisco. "We're going to celebrate for a while. We'll go to our organisation meetings not this week but next and we'll sort it out as best we can," Bill Neukom, the club's second-year managing partner, said.
He promised an encore. "As we did this year, we will burn the midnight oil. We will not go to bed any night without having figured out who we are, where we want to get, how we get there, who we need to get us there," he said.
