Amid triumph and tragedy, private moments of grief and public spectacles of joy, Mercury News and East Bay Times’ photojournalists captured the resilience of the human spirit across the Bay Area in 2022. The powerful and poignant images recorded our losses – from wildfires and shootings to COVID and abortion rights – and our gains, in sports arenas, playing fields and parades. There were deaths and funerals and festivals that documented the sorrow of the year and also the elation. The astonishing and the sublime also were captured – sometimes in the same frame. Such was the retirement of a 100 ..read more

Recently retired San Francisco Giants star Buster Posey has sold his 106-acre hunting ranch in Oroville for $3.9 million. The home sits with a view of the lake. (Photo: California Outdoor Properties)The living room of the house. (Photo: California Outdoor Properties) The sprawling property encompasses a lake and two creeks for fishing and hunting and includes a main house, a barn, a workshop and a caretaker’s house. A main bedroom in the house. (Photo: California Outdoor Properties) Posey, 35, grew up hunting and fishing in Georgia and bought the property in 2016 to pass on the tradition to hi ..read more

Recently retired San Francisco Giants star Buster Posey has listed his 106-acre hunting ranch in Oroville for $3.9 million, reports the Wall Street Journal. The sprawling property encompasses a lake and two creeks for fishing and hunting and includes a main house, a barn, a workshop and a caretaker’s house. Posey grew up hunting and fishing in his native Georgia and bought the property in 2016 to pass on the tradition to his four children, according to the report. Ducks, doves, quails, turkeys and bucks are game on the property, and bass and catfish can be caught when fishing. The 3,340-square ..read more

Frank Robinson, a trailblazer who forged his own path from the playgrounds of West Oakland to baseball immortality, died Thursday after a long battle with bone cancer. He was 83. The Hall of Fame outfielder had been in hospice care for the past few months and passed away in Los Angeles, almost 45 years after he made baseball history by becoming its first African-American manager with the Cleveland Indians. Robinson is mostly remembered in the Bay Area for managing the Giants from 1981-84, when he was the first African-American to manage in the National League. But the long-legged, quick-wriste ..read more

President Trump took offense to Giants manager Gabe Kapler and a handful of players taking a knee during the national anthem on Monday night, saying he’s seen enough. In a Tuesday morning tweet, the president again showed his contempt for athletes who kneel to protest racial injustice and police brutality while the anthem’s playing. “Looking forward to live sports, but any time I witness a player kneeling during the National Anthem, a sign of great disrespect for our Country and our Flag, the game is over for me!,” Trump tweeted. The president’s views were shared by others online who said they ..read more

Alongside several Giants players, Gabe Kapler took a knee during the national anthem Monday night in Oakland, making him the first manager in baseball to do so. “I wanted to use my platform to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with the way we’ve handled racism in our country. I wanted to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with our clear systemic racism in our country,” Kapler said of his decision. This is a big deal to many Americans. And for those who feel Kapler was kneeling on their behalf, that’s great. For others it’ll be a big deal because … well, we’ve been to this rodeo before, haven’t we? Pl ..read more

CLICK HERE if you’re having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device. Competitive baseball at last. The Oakland A’s took on the San Francisco Giants Monday night for the first of two exhibition games at the Coliseum, losing 6-2. Here are some observations. Sean Manaea, slow but effective Manaea got stronger as his start progressed. The left-handed pitcher’s fastball velocity was a few ticks lower than its typical 90 mph average, hovering between 85 and 88 mph throughout. It’s early, so it may just be a matter of a few starts before Manaea can amp up the velocity to its sweet spot. Manag ..read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Everything is new for Tyler Anderson. There is a different uniform, unfamiliar teammates and an unprecedented two-part spring training necessitated by a global pandemic. But the one thing of note that should encourage the Giants is Anderson is throwing without a familiar ache in his left knee that was an issue for much of his career after being a first-round draft pick by the Colorado Rockies. “It’s been a few years since I’ve been dealing with it so it’s hard to remember what it was like when I was 25 years old,” Anderson said Saturday before the Giants conducted an evening sc ..read more

This Major League Baseball season will be unlike any we have seen before. Face masks, social distancing and a ban on chewing, spitting and other high-risk behavior will make the 2020 season memorable for A’s and Giants fans, no matter how they finish in the standings. Join our reporters Kerry Crowley (on the Giants) and Shayna Rubin (on the Athletics) along with sports editor Bud Geracie at 10 a.m. this Tuesday (July 21) as they explore the challenges on and off the field for the Bay Area’s MLB squads. It’ll be the first in our Newsroom @ Home sports series. They’ll discuss everything from Joe ..read more

The Giants aren’t budging. Catcher Joey Bart is the team’s future, but they’re saying that the future is not now. Despite Buster Posey’s opting out of the season, despite the fact that the top two names on the Giants’ catcher depth chart are non-roster invitees, despite the fact that Bart looks like a big-league player to big-league players, the message remains the same as the 2020 campaign approaches: “More development will certainly serve Joey well,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. I think that’s the wrong call. The Giants owe it to both their top prospect and their fans to see what the kid ..read more