Click through the slideshow above to remember some of the Bay Area's forgotten mascots.
It's been 25 years since the debut of Crazy Crab, the San Francisco Giants' mascot during one of the franchise's worst seasons in its 136-year history. The character was an "anti-mascot," conceived by the Giants organization to poke fun at the rash of MLB teams that debuted mascots during the 1970s and '80s. Frank Robinson, the Giants manager at the time, appeared in a TV ad where he pretended to attack Crazy Crab.
The ploy worked — a little too well.