The Giants Story A Tale of Two Cities

[@MGAF688]

If nothing else, the Giants have a long, successful history of great looking uniforms. I'm not a Giants fan by any stretch. But this franchise has come up with some of the best uniform designs in baseball history. Classic and classy.

[@oscarmason3252]

Agreed, they've always had nice looking uniforms

[@edwardiii8409]

I could never dig the orange

[@marcotorres8779]

@@edwardiii8409Orange is a NYC staple color

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

​@@marcotorres8779 Makes me think about the song AUTUMN IN NEW YORK...❤

[@jonathanswift2251]

When the N.Y. Giants left NYC for San Francisco, they asked John McGraw's widow what her husband would have thought of this move, she replied, tears in her eyes: "It would've broken his heart..." [AND HAVING WRITTEN THAT QUOTE, I HAVE TEARS IN MINE]

[@edwardcricchio6106]

I read where the Mets gave Mrs. McGraw season tickets at the Polo Grounds.

[@larryloveless2967]

As a long time Cardinals fan born in 1953 the New York team was a little before my time. My favorite ballplayer growing up not a Cardinal was Willie Mays. I really enjoyed seeing how Durocher boosted his confidence in 1951. I play the baseball strat-o-matic game and really enjoy playing the 1954 Giants, 1953 Dodgers and 1950 Yankee teams of the 1950s era offered by the game. It is like I really know that very good 1954 Giants team. The Cardinals playing the Giants and Ddogers in the 1960s always made for great games and were my favorites. I also have the 1962 and 1965 SF Giants teams for that game I still have bought in 1971. Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, and Juan Marichal made for a great era. This video is a treasure of the old days. Leo Durocher was once the Cardinals shortsop of the 1930s. That picture of a young Casey Stengel playing for the Giants is a gem.

[@gillynova]

Thank you for posting this! Exactly what I was looking for and helped me finish 1 hour on my elliptical lmao. Cheers to everyone watching this in the future! Go Giants

[@barrywainwright3391]

One of my favorite teams that I grew up with. Great players such as Willie Mays, Willie Mccovey, Juan Marichal, Gaylord Perry, Joe Morgan, Orlando Cepeda, Bobby Bonds and many more greats. Now I'm 64 and I still have some of their baseball cards. RIP Perry and Joe.

[@pronounsareinsane]

Great documentary on the history of the Giants from 1883-1986. Video was produced in 1987

[@tonyhorton7751]

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[@greenspidey]

NY Baseball in the 50's unbelievable Brooklyn dodgers, New York Giants and New York Yankees. Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle all three teams Winning.

[@edwardtatum9930]

Who was the greatest center fielder in New York in the fifties?

[@greenspidey]

@@edwardtatum9930 Mays, mantle and duke snider idk which was the best

[@jayclarke5466]

Mantle in 50 s May s in 60 s…btw Duke was one helluva player

[@TheBatugan77]

NYC won every WS between 1949-1956.

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@TheBatugan77 Brooklyn finally won their first and only World Series while calling the Big Apple 🍏 home.

[@hgprthe27man]

I’ve been a Giants fan since coming to America from the Philippines. I didn’t root for any other team nor will ever rooy for another. Even when we just got swept by the Dodgers TWICE this season. And sitting 21.5 games behind them and four games below .500. Go Giants win or lose!

[@adm712]

With regard to New York baseball history you hear plenty about the Brooklyn Dodgers and Yankees, but the New York Giants. I think, never get the respect nor recognition they deserve with to their history while playing in NYC.

[@jaceking5938]

Im not a huge baseball fan but it would have been so awrsome living in NY when the Dodgers and Giants were there, mustve been awesome having those rivalries within the burroughs

[@michaelward9880]

I was there at San Diego when the Giants won the NL West in '71. I was there on opening day in '71. Willie Mays first time at bat smaked a majestic homer in the upper deck in left field on the first pitch. Next time at bat he drills aa line drive to center which hir the top rail of the fence that ran on top of the wall, again on the first pitch The umps ruled it a GR double, which was bs. The booing was incredible.

[@oceanthresher6184]

Baseball in New York would be so much better with the Dodgers and Giants still in town. A three way rivalry with all the teams having a fanbase of significant size with two of them meeting 19 times a year would be absolute craziness.

[@dariowiter3078]

You're living in a fantasy world, dude! That era in baseball ended with the Giants and Dodgers moving to California in early 1958.

[@learner5090]

@@dariowiter3078 The real Giants and Dodgers belong to New York, 🗽Those California ones are pretenders and fakes.

[@myagaabold]

@@learner5090 lol stop drinking!!!

[@learner5090]

@@myagaabold Orginator, never the duplicator 🗽

[@myagaabold]

@@learner5090 blah blah blah.

[@ABCA773]

My stepfather was a lifelong Giants fan (little known fact). My father was a lifelong Yankees fan. My mother's family are mostly Dodgers fans. Sorry to hear about Willie Mays, but he had an amazing life. Better luck next time for The Giants. 🧡

[@tubesurfing]

The cream San Fran jerseys are some of the best in baseball.

[@josephcostello695]

My family was pissed when the Giants moved to San Francisco and the Dodgers to Los Angeles. Either they went Yankees or later on the Mets. I’m a Mets fan. So they both can stay in California. I can’t even imagine them not being there. Grew up loving Willie Mays

[@ldfreitas9437]

Glad the teams moved west. East Coast snobbery had kept the third major league from being recognized as one in 1946: the Pacific Coast League, where the San Francisco Seals dominated most years, along with the San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Angels, Hollywood Stars, Oakland Oaks, Sacramento Solons, Portland Beavers, and Seattle Rainiers. The players were, for the most part, not interested in going to the "major" league. They liked playing on the West Coast and were just as talented. There's a 1946 PCL film that was used to try to get the American and National Leagues to recognize them as a third major league, but unfortunately it didn't work. That film is here on KZbin. Look for it and you might learn some history of the old PCL, when it was considered AAAA, not AAA!

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@42663 I'm a West Coaster, a Native Son of a Native Son of the Golden West, a Californian, and we're on the Correct Coast. You're not going to find too many places in the US where one can go surfing in the morning and snow skiing in the afternoon! And regarding ball parks, no park, NO PARK, is better than Oracle in San Francisco!

[@wyatthill6252]

Were you around when Mays was with the Mets at the end of his career?

[@ldfreitas9437]

@@wyatthill6252 I'm 67. Do the math.

[@learner5090]

@@ldfreitas9437 The only and real Giants is the New York Gotham Giants and Polo grounds ballpark was it. 🗽

[@allanmacmillan7823]

The 3 greatest calls by Russ Hodges...Bobby Thompson's "Shot heard 'round the world", Mays' "Circle Catch" vs. Cleveland and doing the play-by-play of a Giants' game when Sonny Corleone gets turned into a wheel of Swiss cheese at the toll booth.

[@edwardtatum9930]

As a 67yo fan,I remember the game I attended in Chicago against the Cubs. Willie May's temper tantrum against Ferguson Jenkins who won 20 games six straight seasons and pinpoint control. I believe the ball got away from him. Willie wasn't hearing it. Out of dugout comes Mccovey, B Bonds,Cepeda ,Marichal and the rest. Order was restored. I will always remember that day at Wrigley Field as a 11yo. Who was the greatest center fielder in New York in the fifties.?

[@sportsmedia25]

love the narrator's voice, a great set of pipes!

[@allanmacmillan7823]

The 3 greatest calls by Russ Hodges...Bobby Thompson's "Shot heard 'round the world", Mays' "Circle Catch" vs. Cleveland and doing the play-by-play of a Giants' game when Sonny Corleone gets blown to smithereens at the toll booth.

[@allanmacmillan7823]

Until Jorge Soler's game 6 blast in last year's World Series, the hardest hit ball I ever saw was in 1966 at Atlanta-Fulton Co. Stadium by Willie McCovey. It was one of only four to ever reach the upper deck there. He was eventually joined by Hank Aaron, Willie Stargell and a reserve outfielder with the Cubs named Willie Smith (I know...who?). I watched on TV as Reggie Jackson hit the transformer on the roof at Tiger Stadium in the '71 All-Star game. The ball McCovey hit would've knocked the transformer off of the roof and into the street below. The sound of the bat meeting the ball was deafening. Stretch hardly ever gets mentioned when people discuss all-time great Giants...what a shame.

[@michaelsalazar9787]

First time watching this won't to see more of the new York Giants baseball team

[@Air0087]

TIL Felipe Alou played for the Giants. He was the manager of my local team, the Expos as far as I could remember. Was really sad when they fired him :(

[@ジャイアンツマリオ55]

32:56 南海ホークス(現ソフトバンクホークス)からの元祖メジャーリーガーのマッシー村上(村上雅則)だ‼️

[@pls2028]

If anyone was to blame for the Giants (and the Dodgers) decisions to leave New York, it was city planner Robert Moses. Moses refused to help Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley get the land he wanted and needed to build a new stadium that would replace Ebbets Field, which was too small and in need of renovation. Moses wanted the new stadium to be built in Queens on the site that eventually housed Shea Stadium. O’Malley didn’t want to build in Queens, contending that his team was the Brooklyn Dodgers - not the Queens Dodgers. The Polo Grounds was also old and decrepit - and needed to be replaced. O’Malley and Giants owner Horace Stoneham were vilified for their decisions to move, but clearly, according to many of the accounts, the fault was largely at the feet of Moses. Neither wanted to move, but we’re savvy enough to see the writing on their respective walls…

[@chrishowell4845]

It`s my understanding that the spot that Walter O`Malley had picked is now where the arena where the Brooklyn Nets is located

[@pls2028]

Thank you for sharing that bit of information. I had no idea. How ironic that a sports facility is ultimately built on that site!

[@dustinharrison3491]

Is it just me, or did old school players have more individualized/ unique batting stances?

[@JerseyShoreCollector]

Cal Ripken changed his continuously all the way to his last game

[@TheBatugan77]

I don't know. I've never seen your batting stance.

[@Ed3737]

Interesting how little is included about the reasons for the move to SF. This is voiced by Len Cariou, most recently seen on Blue Bloods. Cariou voiced a similar video for the Mets around this same time.

[@WildwoodClaire1]

Robert Moses infamously tried to force the Brooklyn Dodgers to move from Ebbets Fields to a new ballpark site in Queens. Does anyone know why Moses did not suggest the Queens site to the Giants?

[@jayclarke5466]

Moses is the real villain not the O’Malley

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@jayclarke5466 Try telling that to Brooklyn fans. They're still hating O'Malley even to this day. I'd love to compose a letter to Peter O'Malley, telling him that I think his father is the victim in this scenario, and not the villain. Walter tried everything in his power to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn, Moses wouldn't budge, so therefore O'Malley realized he had no chance of keeping the team in Brooklyn, and began talks with Los Angeles about moving his team there.

[@Bu11yMagu1re]

Thought the Giants flirted with Queens too

[@kevinmiller6380]

The 1951 Giants cheated by stealing signs. That's how they were able to overcome the 13.5 game deficit against Brooklyn. The 2017 Houston Astros did the same thing. That's how they were able to win that year's World Series.

[@mikeforte7585]

Stealing signs in baseball is as old as prostitution....it's been going on since day one and is still going on today....it's also like steroids...as science improves they come up ways to get away with it...the bottom line is there is too much money being paid to players who will do anything to win and keep getting paid big money.....the only thing new in the world is the history u haven't read yet..

[@rogerlambert9316]

Anything illegal is okay, as long as you're not caught.

[@alaandre004]

Their batting averages went down at home with the sign stealing. Only three players averages improved when the signs were used..everyone else’s dropped

[@TheBatugan77]

Call the whaaaaambulance.

[@DmonicHollow]

They didn’t win the 1951 World Series they won in 1954

[@Jeff-p5i2w]

No mention of Candlestick Park being the worst venue of any sports Facility in the country. This is no doubt that keeps many players wanting to go there.

[@thewkovacs316]

the stick is gone

[@MikeDoran-gr6li]

Go SFGiants2010-2012-2014 World Series Champions

[@CCTH2221-lp2zj]

I see so many comments from people who don’t like the Giants & Dodgers leaving NYC. Although I was born later I’m sure it was inevitable. The west coast was on the move financially. Think about Motown leaving Detroit and Soul Train leaving Chicago. There was a huge exodus from the East Coast, Midwest and South to California from the 50’s to 70’s and it obviously was about money & TV.. NYC was in a tailspin until Koch became mayor and those two franchises really couldn’t be compared with the Yankees. Really hard to argue with the branding that either franchise has developed in San Francisco & Los Angeles⚾️

[@roberthimmelman3816]

Was that Bruce Willis at 35:21?

[@ExposClassics94]

Johnny Antonelli sighting 22:05

[@dennisschreiber7663]

Best thing the Dodgers and Giants did was move to California! The Giants almost moved to Minneapolis but Walter O’Malley talked the Giants owner into moving to California instead to keep the rivalry intact. You’re welcome San Francisco! Go Dodgers!!!

[@duanedorman6134]

I enjoyed this documentary. It is disappointing that the narrator only mentioned Fred Merkle for one mistake. I read somewhere that John McGraw used to consult with Merkle about which plays to use. He was one of the most brilliant baseball minds ever. Tommy Lasorda said that he could have shot Joe Morgan and no jury would have convicted him.

[@Sanfrancisco2495]

Go Giants!

[@rentslave]

Ralph Terry died yesterday,3-16-22.

[@pigalleycatemanresu7321]

Ralph Terry was a pitcher for the Yankees, never played for the Giants. It was Bill Terry, the great first baseman and manager of the Giants. He died in 1989.

[@jayclarke5466]

Correct,but Don Larsen pitched for Giants

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@jayclarke5466 How does Don Larsen figure into this equation?

[@hipstereagle6050]

2:00 who else assumed that was Barry Bonds?

[@rentslave]

There's a lot of footage here that I've never seen.

[@martinfelsenfeld6012]

They almost became the Toronto Giants in 1976--in case you forgot history of the team that was centimetres away from leaving San Francisco (area code 415) for Toronto (area code 416--lol)! Of course the Giants did stay in California while Toronto got their own team later in 1976--the Blue Jays! Something you didn't know these days!

[@ldfreitas9437]

The A's have had the lowest attendance for any professional sports game in the Bay Area: something like 400 for a night game in the early 1980s, though it could have been the late 70's. They have also thought of leaving, and in fact, Horace Stoneham could have nixed them moving to the Bay Area back in 1967. He should have said no. The A's are thinking of leaving now. Their owners don't want to pay for a new park, and can't get Oakland to put in any money except for land near the harbor, and the shipping industry there is saying hell no! The Port of Oakland makes a hell of a lot more money from shipping than the A's can regarding tax revenue for the town. And the A's don't want to keep playing in the Colisewer. Portland A's has a nice ring to it!

[@jerryn.1823]

I have heard another rumor that I would not be surprised if it is true, that the baseball Giants in the early 1970s were tired of bad attendance at Candlestick Park and that Horace Stoneham the Giant owner who moved them to San Francisco in the late 1950s regretted that move and that by the early 1970s with the talk of the football Giants moving to the New Jersey Meadowlands a move that did happen, that Horace Stoneham was interested in moving the Giants back to the East Coast to the same New Jersey Meadowlands. But the Owners of the Yankees and Mets said NO to that idea, And that was that. This is why Major League Baseball should not have Antitrust Exemption and that the Yankees & Mets should not have the right to claim Northern and Central New Jersey as their territory. The Yankees & Mets should only be allowed to claim Southeastern New York State as their territory.

[@kevinmiller6380]

@@ldfreitas9437 The A's ought to move back to Philadelphia.

[@judezern6080]

Get them back!!! For the sake of NY

[@michaelgonzalez7304]

But the Mets belong to New York just like the Yankees.

[@TheLordAI]

California always stealing our shit, the Dodgers, the Giants, hip hop 😂

[@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0]

Not stealing if it's free

[@splashnskillz37]

From baseball to football New York Giants

[@jerryn.1823]

As for the football version I call them the "They're too ashamed to call themselves the New Jersey Giants"

[@kevinmiller6380]

@@jerryn.1823 To me they ARE the New Jersey Giants, not the New York Giants, likewise with the Jets; both teams are based in New Jersey, not New York.

[@MikeDoran-gr6li]

😂

[@xxmayhemxx6662]

Do San fran fans even recognize the New York giants?? Whole different team playing for a different city, do y’all take pride in the name or the history of where the current team has been playing?

[@stevescott3129]

Yes we do! My whole life we have heard about the NY Giants, their players, their history, everything. Their retired uniform numbers are flown in SF, and we still fly alk the NY Giants World Series flags, just as if we were alwaysin the same city. We have also continued the rivalry with the Dodgers.

[@DrunkenSlob]

Lol 56 year championship drought

[@nbdyankz8344]

And your team is?

[@ldfreitas9437]

So what? We won 3 in 5, and we might win this year. Beat LA! Since 1995 and the expanded playoff format, only one team has won back to back WS: the Yankees in '97, '98. and '99. No one has won 3 in every other years but the San Francisco Giants! They'd have had the WS in 1994 if the season hadn't got called off for the strike. And regarding the Dodgers and 202, it's crap! Sixty games? No WS championship should have been given for the season! More games were played in 1994.

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

At the time I’m commenting, the Giants have the most wins of any franchise in the history of baseball: 11,277 total wins.

[@DrunkenSlob]

@@mitchelvalentino1569 that winning percentage not impressive

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

@@DrunkenSlob The Giants have the second highest winning percentage ever at .535, highest ever in the N.L. and second only to the Yankees in MLB. Some fans would consider this impressive, but it’s not the point. The Giants’ record of most wins ever is a remarkable and noteworthy distinction. Great team, great history.

[@josecarranza7555]

giants are a joke.

[@thomasmckennie8771]

how many SBs have the Cowboys won vs how many WS have the Giants won??

[@TheBatugan77]

Cowshits are a joke.

[@unknownloveshow]

You must not like baseball. The SF Giants are one of the most respected teams in baseball. Our rivals hate us but they respect the organization. But your a cowboy fan. What do you know?. Lmao!

[@josecarranza7555]

@@unknownloveshow Lol

[@ldfreitas9437]

I have a comment to make: some teams that have moved have changed their names: The Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins and the second version of the Senators the Texas Rangers. I think the Dodgers and Giants should have taken the names Angels and Seals, the PCL teams they replaced.

[@judezern6080]

Get the giants back trade the Mets for them. Terrible they let the giants go and make an expansion team.

[@michaelgonzalez7304]

No, the Mets belong in New York just like the Yankees.

[@allanmacmillan7823]

Until Jorge Soler's game 6 blast in last year's World Series, the hardest hit ball I ever saw was in 1966 at Atlanta-Fulton Co. Stadium by Willie McCovey. It was one of only four to ever reach the upper deck there. He was eventually joined by Hank Aaron, Willie Stargell and a reserve outfielder with the Cubs named Willie Smith (I know...who?). I watched on TV as Reggie Jackson hit the transformer on the roof at Tiger Stadium in the '71 All-Star game. The ball McCovey hit would've knocked the transformer off of the roof and into the street below. The sound of the bat meeting the ball was deafening. Stretch hardly ever gets mentioned when people discuss all-time great Giants...what a shame.