Jung Hoo Lee hasn’t even played 50 games as a member of the Giants yet, but for a group of San Francisco community organizers, he’s the perfect player to build an organic fan club around.
Giants fans identifying themselves as the “Hoo Lee Gans” stole a healthy amount of airtime on NBC Sports Bay Area on Monday night. With 51 people — matching Lee’s jersey number — decked out in custom shirts and an anime-style fire wigs, the startup fan group in the upper deck on Monday was shown often on the Giants broadcast.