Frank oconnor lefty odouls

Frank has been a resident piano player/entertainer at Lefty O'Doul's in San Francisco for the past 10 years.

The house piano player, Irish former police officer Frank O'Connor, is enough of a draw that tourists come back year after year to drink and.

Recorded live at Lefty O Doul's Union Square in San Francisco.

Just another night at Lefty O Doul's.

Even though there are better watering holes and food elsewhere, this place just had loads of atmosphere.

Recorded live at Lefty O Doul's Union Square in San Francisco....

Lefty O'Doul's, famous San Francisco baseball bar to close, future uncertain

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco is girding for a legal showdown over one of its most beloved and now shuttering institutions: a baseball memorabilia bar in tourist-heavy Union Square named for legendary batter and city son Lefty O'Doul.

The rambunctious piano and sports bar has catered to tourists and locals for decades, its walls crowded with Marilyn Monroe mementos, spurs and horseshoes honoring San Francisco mounted police, and photos of baseball greats.

But now the bar and restaurant's operator and the building's landlord are battling over who will continue the Lefty's tradition, with each side claiming pieces of what makes the bar sing.

Wednesday is the establishment's final day after nearly six decades on Geary Street by the cling-clanging of cable cars.

Lefty's operator Nick Bovis announced earlier this month that the lease was up in February, but he reassured fans that he would reopen at an undete