Confetti, rain fall on revelers at Giants World Series parade

Hundreds of thousands of Giants fans shrugged off gray and rainy skies — as well as any tendency to be spoiled by downpours of success — as they flooded the city Friday for yet another World Series victory party, crowding Market Street for a confetti-stuffed parade and packing Civic Center Plaza for a raucous celebration. The true, the faithful and the die-hard arrived in droves, starting well before dawn, to claim prime spots along the parade route, braving the wet Halloween weather with scarves, ponchos, umbrellas and panda hats honoring Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval. [...] the players, who were carried along the parade route on double-decker tour buses tricked out in Giants trim, said the fan support was as heavy and heartfelt as earlier years. All along the route, fans climbed on ledges, street signs and bus shelters for better views — one man even brought a ladder so his teenage sons wouldn’t miss a thing — and peered down from high-rise windows and balconies. The players and their friends and family waved from the buses or open-backed trucks, a new tactic for this year’s parade to make them more visible to the crowds. Madison Bumgarner, who had a truck to himself and was waving his Series MVP trophy over his head, was clearly the crowd favorite. Riding among the players in convertibles and other vehicles were team officials, politicians, former players and a clutch of Bay Area celebrities, including Journey frontman and Giants super-fan Steve Perry and members of Metallica. Orange and black ruled all along the parade route, although a few fans picked Halloween over the Giants and donned costumes instead. At Powell and Market streets, where the crowds were among the thickest, opportunistic vendors sold T-shirts and buttons, plus some less traditional souvenirs like cigarette lighters and candy apples made to look like baseballs. The sisters have been Giants fans since they were preschoolers in Union City, when their father would bring home Willie Mays pins and other souvenirs from games.

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