Forty Years a Giant2022 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year When New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham came home one night in 1918 and told his teenage son, Horace, Horrie, I bought you a ballclub, he set in motion a family legacy. Horace Stoneham would become one of baseballs greatest figures, an owner who played an essential role in integrating the game, and who was a major force in making our pastime truly