Tony Vitello is no stranger to Giants’ franchise lore.

Vitello was a nine-year-old sitting in the right-field seats at Busch Stadium when Will Clark incited a benches-clearing brawl after sliding hard into St. Louis Cardinals second baseman José Oquendo. He remembers watching Kevin Mitchell’s improbable barehanded grab then trying to recreate it himself. Decades later, Vitello sat behind home plate for Game 7 of the 2014 World Series and witnessed Madison Bumgarner pitch five innings of relief to deliver the Giants’ third World Series in five years.

The 47-year-old Vitello rattled off a laundry list of names during last Thursday’s introductory press conference, two of them being future Hall of Famers Bruce Bochy and Dusty Baker. Despite possessing no prior professional experience, Vitell

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