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The 1960 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 78th year in Major League Baseball.The team moved their home games from Seals Stadium to the new Candlestick Park.In their third season in the Golden Gate City, the Giants finished in fifth place in the National League, 16 games behind the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
The 1951 season saw the Giants beat their rivals the Brooklyn Dodgers in a three-game playoff for the National League pennant. The Giants won the series 2–1 on a walk-off home run by Bobby Thomson in game 3, a moment remembered as the Shot Heard 'Round the World. They went on to lose in the World Series to the Yankees.
The season was shortened to nine games, and the top eight teams in each conference earned berths in an expanded 16-team playoff tournament. [36] G The Giants, Dallas Cowboys, and Washington Redskins finished the 1985 season with identical 10–6 records. Dallas was awarded the NFC East title because they had the best head-to-head record among ...
In 1960, ABC returned to baseball broadcasting with a series of late-afternoon Saturday games. Jack Buck [1] and Carl Erskine [2] [3] were the lead announcing crew for this series, which lasted one season. [4] ABC typically did three games a week. Two of the games were always from the Eastern or Central Time Zone.
The Cowboys–Giants rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants.. The Cowboys began their play in the 1960 season; however, it was in the subsequent season that they transitioned to the Eastern Division, establishing a divisional rivalry with the Giants.
The Giants won two of the three games to take their first National League title since moving to San Francisco, making the Giants the first NL Champions of the 162-game schedule era. They went on to the 1962 World Series, where they lost in seven games to the New York Yankees. The Giants had 1,552 hits in the regular season, the most in the club ...
San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays in action during the 1966 season. ... in the 1954 World Series for the New York Giants against the Cleveland Indians. ... of 1950s and 1960s Giants fame ...
Season Season series at Philadelphia Eagles at New York Giants Overall series Notes 1960: Eagles 2–0: Eagles 31–23: Eagles 17–10: Giants 34–21–1 In New York, Eagles' LB Chuck Bednarik's hard hit on Giants' RB Frank Gifford causes a key fumble in the Eagles' win, allowing the Eagles to take the division.