Now the San Francisco Giants are the current world champions. As 1 of the longest-established professional baseball teams, the franchise has won the most games of any team in the history of American baseball, and any North American professional sports team. The team was the first major league team based in New York City, most memorably playing at the legendary Polo Grounds. They have won 23 National League pennants and appeared in 20 World Series competitions, both records in the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. The San Francisco Giants 8 World Series Championships rank second in the National League behind the St. Louis Cardinals 11 and are tied for fourth overall with the Boston Red Sox behind the New York Yankees with 27, the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Oakland Athletics with 9. The San Francisco Giants have played in the World Series 20 times (14 times in New York, 6 times in San Francisco, the most recent being in the current year of 2014), but boycotted the event in the year of 1904. The San Francisco Giants have the most Hall of Fame players in all of professional baseball. As the New York Giants, they won 14 pennants and 5 World Series championships behind managers such as John Joseph McGraw and William Harold Terry and players like Christopher Christy Mathewson, Carl Owen Hubbell, Melvin Thomas Ott, Robert Brown Bobby Thomson, and Willie Howard Mays, Jr. The San Francisco Giants have won 6 pennants and 3 World Series championships since arriving in San Francisco. They are the newly crowned World Champions of Baseball for the year of 2014 after defeating the Kansas City Royals 4 games to 3 during the year of 2014 World Series on the date of October 29, 2014.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:42:19 +0000
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