Jeff Kent and Peter Magowan are now officially immortalized as Bay Area legends. The two, who played major roles with the San Francisco Giants in the past couple decades, were inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame on Monday.
Magowan was the franchise’s managing general partner from 1993 to 2008. While Magowan never brought a championship to San Francisco, he led the effort to keep the team in San Francisco. Magowan and his group of fellow investors bought the team, keeping it from being sold to a group intent on moving the Giants to St.