By Andrew Baggarly
ARLINGTON, Texas — What a night for someone to step on Mike Murphy's eyeglasses.
The Giants' ever-present clubhouse manager has labored for the team since the day the steamer trunks arrived from New York in 1958. He is the umbilical cord for a franchise that pined more than five decades for a world championship.
It finally arrived on a warm Monday night in North Texas -- the sight of it fuzzy to Murphy's wet eyes but no less rapturous.
Shout it from atop Coit Tower and let the party begin: Yes, the Giants really are World Series champions.
Tim Lincecum pitched heroically for eight innings and Edgar Renteria hit the Giants' most important home run since Bobby Thomson's "Shot Hear 'Round the World," a three-run blast that floated over center field wall in the seventh as the Giants defeated the Texas Rangers 3-1 to wrap up the series in five games.
For all their Hall of Fame past of Mays, McCovey and Marichal, as well as the glaring destruction of Barry Bonds, the Giants' first title since 1954 was improbably accomplished by team of grinders and golden arms who were in fourth place at the All-Star break.
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