New York Giants (baseball)

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New York Giants
Cap logo used 1948–1957. A similar logo is used by the New York Mets.
Information
League	National League (1883–1957)
Ballpark	Polo Grounds III (1891–1957)
Established	1883
Folded	1957 (moved to San Francisco, California in 1958)
Nickname(s)	The Orange and Black The G-Men New York Baseball Giants
National League pennant	17 (1888, 1889, 1904, 1905, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1951, 1954)
Pre-modern World Series	2 (1888,1889)
World Series championships	5 (1905,1921,1922, 1933, 1954)
Former name(s)	New York Gothams (1883–1884)
Former ballparks	Hilltop Park (1911) Polo Grounds II (1889–1890) St. George Cricket Grounds (1889) Oakland Park (1889) Polo Grounds I (1883–1888)
Colors	Black, orange, metallic gold, cream[1][2][3]
Manager	See list

The New York Giants were a Major League Baseball team in the National League that began play in the 1883 season as the New York Gothams^[a] and became known as the Giants in 1885. They continued as the New York Giants until the team moved to San Francisco, California after the 1957 season, where the team continues its history as the San Francisco Giants. The team moved west at the same time as its longtime rival, the Brooklyn Dodgers, also in the National League, moved to Los Angeles in southern California as the Los Angeles Dodgers, continuing the National League, same-state rivalry.

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. Numerous inductees of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum played for the New York Giants, including Christy Mathewson (a member of the Hall of Fame's inaugural class), John McGraw, Mel Ott, Bill Terry, Willie Mays, Monte Irvin, Frankie Frisch, Ross Youngs and Travis Jackson. During the club's tenure in New York, it won five of the franchise's eight World Series wins and 17 of its 23 National League pennants. Famous moments in the Giants' New York history include the 1922 World Series, in which the Giants swept the Yankees in four games, Bobby Thomson's 1951 home run known as the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", and the defensive feat by Willie Mays during the first game of the 1954 World Series known as "the Catch".

The Giants had intense rivalries with their fellow New York teams the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, facing the Yankees in six World Series and playing the league rival Dodgers multiple times per season. Games between any two of these three teams were known collectively as the Subway Series.

The New York Giants of the National Football League were named after the team and were founded as the New York Football Giants to distinguish the two clubs of the same name, where it would remain as its corporate name to this day.

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