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Mike Murphy: Equipment Manager, San Francisco Giants

Mike Murphy has worked in the clubhouse and managed baseball equipment for the San Francisco Giants since the team moved west in 1958. Likely the longest reigning employee of any major league organization Murph is immensely popular among past and current ballplayers. In recognition of his service, the Giants named the clubhouse at ATT they played mostly afternoon games, and I'd go early to get autographs. One day, Doc Hughes asked me if I'd like a job getting the balls hit into the stands during batting practice. The next year, when I was fourteen, he said the New York Giants were coming to San Francisco and asked if I wanted to be the bat boy. "Heck, yeah." He told me to go see Eddie Logan, the clubhouse manager, but when I did Logan had already given the job to another kid. Instead, Eddie gave me a job in the visitors' clubhouse as the visiting team batboy. I worked there for a year. One day the home team bat boy didn't show up, and I said I could handle both jobs. Eddie said, "How can you do that?" "Don't worry," I said, "I'll show you how." So every half inning I'd run over to the Giants' side and put on the Giants uniform, and then in the other half inning I'd run back to the visiting side and put on the Pittsburgh Pirates uniform. At the end of the night, I was one tired guy, but Logan liked what I'd done. He said I'd done pretty good. He said, "I ask you to be here at 9:00 in the morning and you always come in at 8:30." My father had always said that when you get a job be there an hour early. I was the Giants bat boy for three years, and then in 1961 when the trainer Red Adams passed away I moved over to the visitors' clubhouse as the assistant equipment manager. I'd polish shoes [spikes] and wash the towels and sanitary, but not the uniforms. In those days, the uniforms were all wool, and they had to be sent off to the cleaners. After a few years as the assistant, I became the visitors' equipment manager [1964], and then in 1979 I moved over to the home side as equipment manager. The job was a lot simpler in those days as you didn't have all the gear and equipment that you have today, and you didn't have a big training table of food in the clubhouse. In those days, the players just came in, got dressed, played the game, and then after the game they pretty much left. Today, you've got all kinds of things going on in and around the clubhouse. Today, I have four people working under me, and it takes all of us to get the job done. Basically our job is to make sure everybody's got all the gear they need--bats, uniforms, whatever. And that it's clean and polished and in tiptop shape and ready to go. After the game, we have baskets for the players to put their clothes in for washing. Sometimes guys don't put their stuff in the baskets, so my guys will skim through the lockers looking for whatever needs to be cleaned. The time it takes to clean shoes and uniforms depends a lot on the field conditions. On a nice day when the field is dry, it's a lot easier to do the shoes. For night games, especially if it's wet, it takes longer because you have mud in the cleats. Same with the uniforms--if players are diving and sliding all over the place, it takes more time to get out the dirt and grass stains. About an hour after the game, we have everything in the wash, and we start reorganizing and tidying up the clubhouse. The players also rely on us for lots of other stuff: "Murph, can you mail this for me?" "Murph, can you get reservations for me and my girl at this restaurant?" "Murph, can you give me this or get me that?" We try to fulfill everything they want. When I used to work under Eddie Logan, he'd say, "Keep the ballplayers happy because when they're happy they play better. …