Snow Everywhere In Giants Victory BY RONALD BUJM ASSOCIATED PRESS ANAHEIM, Calif. The other famous son got the biggest hit in the World Series opener. J.T. Snow, born up the road in Long Beach, helped the San Francisco Giants do in his former team in the first World Series game for him and the Angels. First, he made a highlight film catch of a popup on old teammate Tim Salmon in the fifth inning Saturday night after slipping near the Giants dugout. Then he really put the Angels on the rocks hitting a two-run homer onto the faux boulders behind the left-field fence in the sixth. The drive gave San Francisco a three-run lead, and the Giants held on to beat Anaheim 4-3 in the World Series opener. This was one local-boy-makes-good story the Angels wanted no part of. We didnt have any Rally Monkey or rally animal when I was here, Snow said. This is pretty much a new place, new stadium, new uniforms. I think theres four, five guys and one coach who are still here. Still, it felt pretty good it always feels good to do well against your former team. His father, Jack Snow, was an All-American wide receiver for Notre Dame and an NFL star for the Los Angeles Rams from 1965-75, catching 45 touchdowns passes in 150 games. On Thursday night, he gave his son some advice. He said, Enjoy it, J.T. Snow recalled Friday. He said what he always tells me: Go out and play hard. He would say that to me before a spring training game. He would say that to me before the World Series. After the Giants evening workout at Edison Field, he sat by his comer locker near the entrance to the visitors clubhouse a strange setting for him and talked about his dad, who never got to a Super Bowl. They always lost to the Cowboys or the Vikings, he said, referring to the NFC championship games in 1975 and 1974. When he talks to his father, they speak of how easy it is to play and how hard it is to watch, how athletes are most comfortable when theyre playing. You have control, and youre probably the most relaxed of anybody, he said. During one tense postseason game, his father was so nervous he had to walk away from the television. If you talk to Barry Bonds dad, if you talk to David Bells SjF1 3s nt , tt AMY SANCETTA ASSOCIATED PRESS San Francisco Giants first bass-man J.T. Snow leaps but cannot catch a line drive off the bat of Anaheim Angels Garrett Anderson In the fourth Inning of Game 1 of the World Series on Saturday night. dad, its hard to watch your own son play, J.T. Snow said. J.T. Snow, an Orange County product who played with Giants closer Robb Nen at Los Alamitos High School, grew up as a baseball player with the Angels, who acquired him from the Yankees in the trade for Jim Abbott in December 1992. He spent four seasons with the Angels, who traded him to the Giants for pitchers Allen Watson and Fausto Macey after the 19 season. These days he lives up north in San Mateo. His job is to end the Angels dream and help the Giants win their first title since 1954. And he hit the big homer in the place where he used to drive the ushers crazy. First, his dad took him to the ballpark. When the Angels made the playoffs in 1979, We really got into it. As soon as he got a drivers license, he started getting there on his own. Wed buy the cheap seats and gneak down by the seventh inning to the dugout, Snow said. Security guards used to chase us around. Now he was making important catches and getting decisive hits on the very same field. He said he had never made a catch like the one that got Salmon out, where he slipped on the warning track and popped up like bread out of a toaster.