The National League' s New York Giants became the San Francisco Giants & nbsp; ( AT& amp; T Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, between 2nd and 3rd Sts. , So. Ma, 94107.

PHONE: 415/ 972- 2000 or 800/ 734- 4268. sanfrancisco. giants. mlb. com) when they moved to California in 1958, the same year that the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Today the beautiful, classic design of the Giants' AT& amp; T Park has created a new legion of fans& # 8212; some more interested in the baseball experience than the Giants, per se.

Still, buy your tickets in advance& # 8212; nearly every game sells out.

The park is small and there are 30, 000 season- ticket holders ( for 43, 000 seats) , so Giants tickets for popular games routinely sell out the day they go on sale, and other games sell out quickly. If tickets aren' t available at Tickets. com, try the Double Play Ticket Window Web site, or even try showing up on game day& # 8212; there are usually plenty of scalpers, some selling at reasonable prices. Tickets. com & nbsp; ( PHONE: 877/ 473- 4849. ) sells game tickets over the phone and charges a per- ticket fee of $ 2- $ 10, plus a per- call processing fee of up to $ 5. The Giants Dugout & nbsp; ( AT& amp; T Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, So. Ma, 94107.

PHONE: 415/ 972- 2000 or 800/ 734- 4268. 4 Embarcadero Center, Embarcadero. PHONE: 415/ 951- 8888) sells tickets in any of its stores ( check the Web site, sanfrancisco. giants. mlb. com/ sf/ ballpark/ dugout_ stores. jsp, for all locations) ; a surcharge is added at all but the ballpark store.

The Giants' Web- only Double Play Ticket Window & nbsp; ( sanfrancisco. giants. mlb. com) allows season- ticket holders to resell their unused tickets. You won' t always find a deal, but you might get a seat at an otherwise sold- out game.

Click the " Tickets" link on the home page.

The size of AT& amp; T Park hits you immediately& # 8212; the field, Mc. Covey Cove, and the Lefty O' Doul drawbridge all look like miniature models. At only 13 acres, the San Francisco Giants' ballpark is one of the country' s smallest.

After Boston' s Fenway, AT& amp; T Park has the shortest distance to the wall; from home plate it' s just 309 feet to the right field. But there' s something endearing about its petite stature& # 8212; not to mention its location, with yacht masts poking up over the outfield and the blue bay sparkling beyond.

From 1960 to 2000 the Giants played at Candlestick Park ( now Monster Park, the home of the NFL' s ' 49ers) . The huge, modern stadium has nice views, but it' s also in one of the coldest, windiest parts of the city. ( Giants' pitcher Stu Miller was famously " blown off the mound" here in 1961. ) In 2000, the Giants played their first game at AT& amp; T Park ( then Pacific Bell Park, later SBC Park& # 8212; in fact, some locals jokingly call it the Phone Company Park) .

All told, $ 357 million was spent on the privately funded park, and it shows in the retro redbrick exterior, the quaint clock tower, handsome bronze statues and murals, above- average food ( pad Thai, anyone? ) , and tiny details like baseball- style lettering on no smoking signs. There isn' t a bad seat in the house, and the park has an unusual level of intimacy and access.

Concourses circle the field on two levels& # 8212; on the field level you can stand inches from players as they exit the locker rooms. On the street level non- ticket- holders can get up close, too, outside a gate behind the visiting team' s dugout. Diehards may miss the grittiness of Candlestick, but it' s hard not to love this park. It' s a new stadium with an old- time aura, already a San Francisco institution.

Locals show up in motorboats and inflatable rafts, with fishing nets ready to scoop up home- run balls that clear the right field wall and land in Mc. Covey Cove. Hitting one into the water isn' t easy: the ball has to clear a 26- foot wall, the elevated walkway, and the promenade outside. Barry Bonds had the first splash hit on May 1, 2000.

Parking is pricey ( $ 25 and up) , and 5, 000 spaces for 43, 000 seats doesn' t add up. Take public transportation. Muni line N ( to Cal. Train/ Mission Bay) stops right in front of the park, and Muni bus lines 10, 15, 30, 42, 45, and 47 stop a block away. Or you can arrive in style& # 8212; take the ferry from Jack London Square in Oakland ( ) .

AT& amp; T Park & nbsp; ( 24 Willie Mays Plaza, So.

Ma, 94107. PHONE: 415/ 972- 2000 or 800/ 734- 4268. ) . Park Tours & nbsp; ( COST: $ 12. 50.

OPEN: Daily at 10: 30 and 12: 30) .

The giant Coca- Cola bottle and mitt you see beyond the outfield are part of a playground & nbsp; . The bottle is a slide and the mitt actually has decent views of the field. It also alongside a mini- version of the park used for minor league tryouts and pee- wee baseball.

Geraldo Rivera is currently host of " Geraldo at Large" on Fox News Channel ( FNC) , which is also nationally syndicated by Twentieth Television. Rivera recently celebrated 40 years in journalism. Most recently, Rivera secured an exclusive interview with Joe Jackson, just after the death of his son Michael Jackson. Prior to that, he secured an exclusive interview with the late Michael Jackson on the evening before his trial for child molestations charges. Rivera also took part in extensive coverage of the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Rivera joined FNC as a war correspondent in November 2001.

In this capacity, he was immediately stationed in Afghanistan to cover Operation Enduring Freedom and later in Bethlehem to cover the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. He also covered the Iraqi elections from Baghdad. Rivera began his career as a reporter for WABC- TV in New York where he presented a series exposing the deplorable conditions at the Willowbrook State School for the mentally ill.

These award- winning reports led to a government investigation and the institution was eventually shut down. Before becoming a member of the original cast of ABC' s " Good Morning America, " Rivera presented the first television broadcast of the infamous Abraham Zapruder film of the assassination of President John Kennedy as host of ABC' s " Good Night America. " He then began an eight- year association with ABC' s " 20/ 20" as an investigative reporter.

One of his hour- long reports, " The Elvis Cover- Up" was for more than two decades " 20/ 20' s" highest rated shows. In 1987, Geraldo began producing and hosting " The Geraldo Rivera Show" for 11 years. In 1998, he hosted a series of investigative specials on NBC.

The winner of the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy journalism award ( his third) for his NBC News documentary on " Women In Prison, " and the Scripps Howard Foundation national journalism award for " Back to Bedlam, " Rivera has received more than 170 awards for journalism, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, three national and seven local Emmys, two Columbia- Dupont and two additional Scripps Howard Journalism Awards.

Rivera is a veteran foreign correspondent who has been on the frontlines in virtually every international conflict since 1973. He has expertise in the Afghanistan region, covering the international drug wars of tribal territories in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. His vast war experience has spanned the violent coup in Chile and the Yom Kippur War to the civil wars in Guatemala, the Philippines and Nicaragua as well as the ethnic conflicts in Lebanon ( 1980- 83) and Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo ( 1998- 1999) .

In 2000, he went to Colombia to cover the country' s civil war. Prior to joining Fox News, Rivera served as host of CNBC' s number- one rated prime time show, " Rivera Live, " where his critically- acclaimed coverage of the O. Simpson civil trial verdict set an all- time CNBC ratings record.

Rivera is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Brooklyn Law School and is the author of seven books.

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