Giants hat leads to true love for 2 fans
Giants hat leads to true love for 2 fans Few people would be crazy enough to wear a Giants cap every day for 1,500 days straight — especially if they lived in Los Angeles. A native of Los Gatos, Greg, now 30, was living in L.A.’s trendy Silver Lake area. Ever since the Giants won the 2010 National League Championship, he had worn a Giants hat for part of every day; he’d vowed that if the team won that year’s World Series, he’d do so for the rest of his life. Jenna, a native of Napa then living in L.A. for work, was having coffee with a friend and bemoaning the scarcity of nice men in Southern California when she spotted the iconic S.F. Giants cap. A baseball fan who missed her hometown as well as her team, she couldn’t help but comment, “I like your hat.” The two quickly discovered they were both from the Bay Area, and the self-described “shy and antisocial” Greg asked if Jenna would attend a Giants game with him sometime. Greg often wrote important details about games he’d attended on the inside brim of his hat, but just days later he wrote his first non-baseball fact there — Jenna’s name and the date they’d met. “Even in terrible traffic, with Greg I was as happy as I’d ever been,” said Jenna, who now works as a senior designer for Bonjour Studio in Oakland. Greg, a software engineer, now works for Narrow Labs in San Francisco. In August 2013, driving to Napa to visit Jenna’s parents, Greg pulled over, and in the middle of a vineyard, at sunset and on one knee, he took off his hat and offered it to Jenna. At their Nov. 8 wedding at Ramekins Culinary School & Inn in Sonoma, Greg wore Giants cuff links and his trademark Giants hat — but only for part of the day. Guests signed a hat rather than a guestbook, and Tony Bennett crooned “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” just like at a home game win.