San Jose City Living

Taylor and Oliver Odle

For professional baseball players, the major leagues is where it’s at. Big money, first-class travel, the finest hotels and restaurants. And playing against world-class opponents in baseball’s fields of dreams every night.

The minor leagues are a far cry from that. And it’s even more difficult when you work hundreds or thousands of miles away from home and family. It makes for a long, lonely six or seven month season.

Read more about a San Jose Giants player and his wife here

Mother’s Day always has extra significance around the San Jose Giants. That’s because ballplayers have more than one mother to be thankful for. Their birth mothers, of course, and their wives if they happen to be married with children. But also the generous “host moms” who allow them to live in their San Jose-area homes during the season.   Read more here.

Ed & Donna Musgrave with Angel Villalona and Wilmin Rodriguez

The Giants hope that San Jose pitching coach Jerry Cram has the right recipe to get their pitchers to the major leagues. His players already know about his skill around the grill.  Read more here.