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"San Francisco Giants Team History & Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference.com "Giants Year-by-year Results". Major League Baseball. Archived from the original on May 1, 2007 "Giants Postseason Results". Major League Baseball. Archived from the original on August 10, 2007
The team was originally formed in 1883 as the New York Gothams, then the club was renamed the New York Giants in 1885. 75 years later, in 1958, the franchise moved to its current day city, San Francisco. Through the 2017 season, the Giants have played 20,528 games, winning 11,015, and losing 9,513 for a winning percentage of approximately .537. [1]
Famous moments in the Giants' New York history include the 1922 World Series, in which the Giants swept the Yankees in four games, the 1951 home run by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and the defensive feat by Mays during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series known as "the Catch".
That year, the Giants came close to relocation, with an empty stadium ready to be filled in Tampa. A "Save Our Giants" banner hanging from San Francisco City Hall. In the wake of the disappointing 1989 World Series sweep, a local ballot initiative to fund a new stadium in San Francisco failed, threatening the franchise's future in the city.
The 2014 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 132nd year in Major League Baseball, their 57th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 15th at AT&T Park.
Brian Wilson then retired the side in order in the ninth for the Series-winning save and first-time baseball world championships not just for the Giants (for the first time in 56 years) but for San Francisco, [34] since the Giants' five other world championships were won in New York (in 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933 and 1954).
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 ...
As of 2021, the Dodgers have the most modern-era World Series appearances at 21, followed by the San Francisco Giants with 20. The team with the best record to win the NL pennant was the 1906 Cubs, who won 116 of 152 games during that season [ 15 ] and finished 20 games ahead of the New York Giants. [ 16 ]