New York Giants team ownership history - Society for American Baseball ...
...New York Giants manager John McGraw, left, and team owner Charles Stoneham in the early 1920s. (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY) INTRODUCTION The New York-San Francisco Giants baseball club is among the most storied franchises in the annals of professional sport. To fans, mention of the club?s name promptly evokes images of Willie Mays, Christy Mathewson, Barry Bonds, John McGraw, Mel ......
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September 29, 1957: End of an era as Giants play final home game in New ...
...The New York Giants played their first game on May 1, 1883, and their last game on September 29, 1957. On August 19, 1957, Horace Stoneham, the Giants owner since 1936, announced that the team would move to San Francisco for the 1958 season. Why leave New York after 75 seasons? ?Lack of attendance,? he said bluntly. 1 Of the eight National League teams, the Giants were last in attendance ......
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Focus on the Giants? Cheating Scandal of 1951
...This article was published in 1951 New York Giants essays Today a specter hangs over the Giants? miraculous 1951 season. Their incredible end-of-season heroics are now clouded. Though rumored at the time, it was not revealed as fact until a half-century later: The Giants had been stealing the opposing team?s catcher?s signs....
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Polo Grounds (New York) - Society for American Baseball Research
...Polo Grounds (New York) This article was written by Stew Thornley The Polo Grounds, an odd name for an odd stadium, was home to several baseball teams, most notably the New York Giants until the team moved to San Francisco following the 1957 season....
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John McGraw - Society for American Baseball Research
...John McGraw was perhaps the National League?s most influential figure in the Deadball Era. From 1902 to 1932 he led the New York Giants to 10 National League pennants, three World Series championships, and 21 first- or second-place finishes in 29 full seasons at their helm. His 2,763 managerial victories were second only to Connie Mack ?s 3,731 for the rest of the 20th century, but in 1927 ......
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Andrew Freedman ? Society for American Baseball Research
...Fortunately for baseball, Giants fortunes quickly rebounded under the new Brush/McGraw regime and a pennant winner was produced within two years. But Andrew Freedman also prospered....
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1951 Giants: At the Broadcast Summit - Society for American Baseball ...
...To New York?s 1951 baseball public, each day was the summit in a glorious place ? and time. CURT SMITH ?is the voice of authority on baseball broadcasting,? says USA Today....
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The 1921 New York Giants - Society for American Baseball Research
...4 Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg, 1921 The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), 119. 5 ?Memorial Unveiling Today,? New York Times, May 30, 1921: 12. 6 ?Giants and Phils in 5-Player Deal,? New York Times, July 1, 1921: 18....
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The Integration of the New York Giants - Society for American Baseball ...
...On July 8, 1949, the New York Giants became the fourth major-league team to put a black player on the field when Hank Thompson started at second base and Monte Irvin pinch-hit in the eighth inning of a 4-3 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers. All of the five black players who would play in the National League that year (Thompson, Irvin, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe) appeared in ......
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The 1913-1914 Chicago White Sox-New York Giants World Tour
...Keio University with the New York Giants and Chicago White Sox on December 7, 1913. (Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division) INTRODUCTION On January 27, 1913, John McGraw of the National League champion New York Giants and Charles Comiskey, owner of the American League Chicago White Sox, announced their plans for a world tour to be held after the 1913 World Series. 1 The tour would ......
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