NEW YORK – Giants manager Bruce Bochy remembers a time when ballplayers would combat the heat by putting cabbage leaves under their hats.
Methods are a little more sophisticated these days.
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The Giants might play in a crisper drawer at AT&T Park, but they can’t escape hothouse ballparks when they play outside their division in the summer months. This weekend at Yankee Stadium, temperatures reached the upper 90s with the usual East Coast humidity.
Every player on the field was a Sultan of Sweat.
And that’s where Geoff Head, the Giants’ sports science specialist, comes in.