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The Giants originated in New York City as the New York Gothams in 1883, and were known as the New York Giants from 1885 until the team relocated to San Francisco after the 1957 season. During most of their 75 seasons in New York City, the Giants played home games at various incarnations of the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan .
The following 36 pages use this file: 1958 San Francisco Giants season; 2015 San Francisco Giants season; 2016 San Francisco Giants season; 2017 San Francisco Giants season
The 2014 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball’s 2014 postseason pitting the defending National League champion and third-seeded St. Louis Cardinals against the fifth-seeded San Francisco Giants for the National League pennant and the right to play in the 2014 World Series.
The Giants moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958, with Bill Rigney as their manager. [10] [11] They won their first National League championship in San Francisco under Alvin Dark in 1962 but lost the World Series that year. [12] In their first 28 years in San Francisco, they had 14 managers (including two terms by Rigney). [1]
f San Francisco and New York of the National League East were tied for both wild-card berths, but the Giants were relegated to the second wild-card spot by losing the season series 4–3. g Los Angeles and Colorado were tied for the division championship and second wild-card berth and played in a tie-breaker game .
The San Francisco Giants have had nine general managers. [1] [2] [3] The general manager controls player transactions, hiring and firing of the coaching staff, and negotiates with players and agents regarding contracts. [4] [5] The first person to officially hold the title of general manager for the Giants was Chub Feeney, who assumed the title ...
The San Francisco Giants farm system consists of seven Minor League Baseball affiliates across the United States and in the Dominican Republic.Four teams are independently owned, while three others—the Arizona Complex League Giants squads and two Dominican Summer League Giants squads—are owned by the major league club.
Oracle Park is a ballpark in the SoMa district of San Francisco, California.Since 2000, it has been the home of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). The stadium stands along San Francisco Bay; the section of the bay beyond Oracle Park's right field wall is unofficially known as McCovey Cove, in honor of former Giants player Willie McCovey.