Article: A Dodger convert checks out San Francisco's retro chic ballpark.(The Orange County Register)

SAN FRANCISCO _ Otis Redding crooning "Dock of the Bay" pours from a big black loudspeaker, while dozens of kids squirm in line waiting their turn on a slide inside a giant green and red wooden Coca-Cola bottle.

Garlic wafts by from a smoky stainless-steel barbecue near an old Powell Street cable car that shades a cuddling couple. Two first-grade-age girls in pigtails are whining _ the Krispy Kreme stand is sold out of doughnuts.

A great green lawn rolls out to a wall, where beyond lies San Francisco Bay, waxed white sailboats and power cruisers bobbing at anchor in front of a huge empty cargo ship riding high in the water.

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