BOISE, Idaho — This Day In Sports…September 30, 1999:

After 40 seasons, the San Francisco Giants play their final game at Candlestick Park. Appropriately, it was against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Inappropriately, the Dodgers won 9-4. Built on a point on San Francisco Bay that is a wind-tunnel from the Pacific Ocean, Candlestick was often inhospitable, even on summer days. In 1983, the Giants began awarding “Croix de Candlestick” pins to fans who made it all the way to the end of night games. The weather is best there in the early fall, and it would remain home to the 49ers through the 2013 season.

Opening Day at Candlestick in 1960 was an omen: a day that started warm and sunny and ended cold and windy. The semi-panacea was the view of San Francisco Bay from the stands, but that disappea

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