Craig won two division titles and one pennant and brought ‘Humm Baby’ to Giants lore
Roger Craig, the manager who brought “Humm Baby” to San Francisco Giants lore and turned the franchise around from its lowest point in history, has died, the team announced on Sunday. He was 93.
It was also the season that Giants fans were introduced to the most famous of Craig’s many baseball sayings in “Humm Baby.” That small phrase — which Craig used as an adjective, adverb, a noun and even a nickname — became a major part of the Giants organization in the late 1980s, as Craig’s teams ascended to the top of the National League.
After another 83-79 year in 1988, the Giants won the NL West again in 1989 with a 92-70 record. San Francisco then took down the Chicago Cubs in five games in the NLCS to win the Giants’ first National League pennant in 27 years and reach the World Series for the first time since 1962. That would be Craig’s final postseason game in charge of the Giants. Though Craig would lead the Giants to a fifth straight winning season in 1990 , his teams finished under .500 in both 1991 and 1992 .
Still, Craig’s place in Giants’ lore held strong over the three decades since he was a manager. Craig was a frequent presence at Giants team reunion days for the teams of the 1980s and received rousing ovations from the Giants fans every time. In his 12-year playing career, Craig played for the Dodgers for seven years before he was selected by the New York Mets as the sixth pick in their expansion draft. After two years where he led the Majors in losses with the Mets , Craig bounced around for a single year each with the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies.
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