The team finished in fourth place in the National League West with a 74–88 record, 28 games behind the Cincinnati Reds.
During the first half of the 1970s, attendance at cold and windy Candlestick Park plummeted, and Giants owner Horace Stoneham had faced financial hardship.
In January 1976, Stoneham agreed to sell the team for $13.25 million to a Toronto group consisting of Labatt's Breweries of Canada, Ltd., Vulcan Assets Ltd., and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
[1] In addition, it was briefly rumored they considered a return to the New York metropolitan area, perhaps to a new baseball stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
Infielders Coaches Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg.