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Come Fan with UsWednesday, August 5, 2026

Baseball: Where Beer Is A Kind Of Currency

Broadcaster Mike Krukow, during this afternoon’s Diamondbacks-Giants game, recounted how he got the No. 39 jersey from Renie Martin when he (i.e. Krukow) came to San Francisco from Philly in 1983.

↵This is the entirety of that story:

↵“I said to him, ‘What would it take to get that No. 39 jersey?’ and he said, ‘A six pack.’

↵“So I gave him a six pack.”

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