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Mark Purdy recently retired after 33 years at the San Jose Mercury News. Today he reflects on his career and how the area beyond the right field wall became known as McCovey Cove. .

Purdy told the story of how McCovey Cove got its name after he suggested it in San Jose Mercury News columns: …“I got ahold of (Willie) McCovey and we ended up having lunch. I think he felt that he had been kind of relegated maybe to the background…(After McCovey approved of the name) I talked to JT Snow, I said what do you know about Willie McCovey? He said, ‘Not a lot.’ So, I wrote a column and talked to (Giants CEO) Larry Baer and said look, McCovey really deserves this and your own first baseman doesn’t really know a lot about Willie McCovey. This is a chance if you put his name on that body of water it keeps his name (out there). If Willie were playing there he would hit a lot of balls in that (water)…It just all fit…Shortly after that Larry Baer came to me and said, ‘You know what, we’re going to do it.’”

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