Mascots typically are used to bring joy to sports fans, but it was the opposite objective for the Giants and their somewhat beloved Crazy Crab. During its debut in 1984, fans actually were encouraged ...

“It’s the 2020 version of the 1984 anti-mascot Crazy Crab. It’s the exact same idea — fans don’t put up with that stuff. That’s what Crazy Crab was.” ...

Crazy Crab was introduced to Giants fans through a commercial and was not received well. "I think the crab's kind of stupid, I could do without him," a fan told KCRA 3 in 1984. "He holds up the game." ...

Mascot: Crazy Crab According to the Giants' website, the notoriously polarizing Crazy Crab was the organization’s way of answering the “mascot craze” that hit MLB in the late '70s.

Before Saturday's baseball game with the St. Louis Cardinals at SBC Park, a group of fans rallied to urge the Giants to bring back Crazy Crab. The creature was introduced in 1984 as an anti-mascot ...

In baseball in the late 1970s, drunk and dangerous was on its way out. Warm and fuzzy was coming in. After the 1974 Ten Cent Beer Night melee in Cleveland, and the 1979 anarchy of Disco Demolition ...

Stomper began to pull ahead but was attacked by Crazy Crab, a mascot for one year back in 1984. His re-appearance combined with the show makes this quite ridiculous. 11.

San Franciscans are different. One thing about San Franciscans . . . we celebrate being different. Not liking mascots . . . the Crazy Crab, which was an intentionally designed anti-mascot mascot.

Forty years ago, San Francisco Giants fans were making their disdain for a team mascot well-known. In 1984, ownership hired a local actor to take on the challenge of becoming the Crazy Crab, a ...