[6] The team was the first major-league organization based in New York City, most memorably playing home games at several iterations of the Polo Grounds.

[7] The franchise won 17 pennants and five World Series championships while in New York, led by managers John McGraw, Bill Terry, and Leo Durocher.

New York-era star players including Christy Mathewson, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, and Willie Mays join 63 other Giants in the Baseball Hall of Fame, the most of any franchise.

[9][10] Despite the efforts of Mays and Barry Bonds, regarded as two of baseball's all-time best players,[11] the Giants endured a 56-year championship drought following the move west, a stretch that included three World Series losses.

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 John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, Mel Ott, Bill Terry, Willie Mays, Monte Irvin, and Travis Jackson.

The Giants faced the Yankees in six World Series and played the league rival Dodgers multiple times per season.

The Giants, along with their rival Los Angeles Dodgers, became the first Major League Baseball teams to play on the West Coast.

"Giants" on the home uniform was changed from serifed block lettering to cursive script, and the color scheme returned to black with orange trim.

The lettering became more rounded (save for the player's name), the neck stripes were removed, and the interlocking "SF" and black piping was added on the road gray uniform.

The gray road uniform returned to the classic "San Francisco" wordmark used in the 1960s, though in 2005 gold drop shadows were also added.

This set has the interlocking "SF" in front along with orange piping and a new sleeve patch containing the Golden Gate Bridge atop the "Giants" wordmark.

In 2014, the orange alternate were tweaked slightly, adding black piping and a new sleeve patch featuring the interlocking "SF" logo, and returning to the script "Giants" lettering previously used in the late 1970s.

In 2021, Major League Baseball and Nike introduced the "City Connect" program, with teams wearing special uniforms that reflect the pride and personality of their community.

The 2010 NLCS inaugurated a Giants rivalry with the Philadelphia Phillies after confrontations between Jonathan Sánchez and Chase Utley, and between Ramón Ramírez and Shane Victorino.

That historical rivalry was revisited when the Giants beat the Cubs in the 1989 National League Championship Series, in their tiebreaker game in Chicago at the end of the 1998 season, on June 6, 2012, in a "Turn Back The Century" game in which both teams wore replica 1912 uniforms, and in the 2016 National League Division Series in which the Cubs won.

After the 1957 season, Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley decided to move the team to Los Angeles primarily for financial reasons.

[24][25] Given that the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have long been competitors in economic, cultural and political arenas, their new California venues became fertile ground for transplantation of the ancient rivalry.

Both teams' having endured for over a century while leaping across an entire continent, as well as the rivalry's growth from cross-city to cross-state, have led to its being considered one of the greatest in sports history.

A geographic rivalry with the cross-Bay American League Athletics greatly increased with the 1989 World Series, nicknamed the "Battle of the Bay", which Oakland swept (and which was interrupted by the Loma Prieta earthquake moments before the scheduled start of Game 3 in San Francisco).

In his July 4, 1939, farewell speech ending with the renowned "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth", Yankee slugger Lou Gehrig, who played in 2,130 consecutive games, declared that the Giants were a team he "would give his right arm to beat, and vice versa".

Dave BancroftJake BeckleyRoger Bresnahan *Dan BrouthersJesse BurkettRoger Connor *George Davis *Leo Durocher Buck Ewing *Frankie FrischBurleigh GrimesGabby HartnettRogers HornsbyWaite HoytCarl Hubbell *Monte IrvinTravis Jackson * Tim Keefe *Willie KeelerGeorge Kelly *King KellyTony LazzeriFreddie Lindstrom *Ernie LombardiRube Marquard *Christy Mathewson * Joe McGinnity *John McGraw *Joe MedwickJohnny MizeHank O'DayJim O'Rourke *Mel Ott *Edd RoushAmos Rusie * Ray SchalkRed SchoendienstBill Terry *John Montgomery Ward *Mickey Welch *Hoyt WilhelmHack WilsonRoss Youngs * Steve CarltonGary Carter Orlando Cepeda *Rich GossageRandy Johnson Juan Marichal *Willie Mays *Willie McCovey * Joe MorganGaylord Perry *Frank Robinson Duke SniderWarren Spahn Ernie HarwellRuss Hodges Tim McCarverAl Michaels Jon MillerLindsey Nelson Lon Simmons The following inducted members of the Hall of Fame played or managed for the Giants, but either played for the Giants and were inducted as a manager having never managed the Giants, or managed the Giants and were inducted as a player having never played for the Giants: Broadcasters Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, and Jon Miller are permanently honored in the Hall's "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit as a result of winning the Ford C. Frick Award in 1980, 2004, and 2010 respectively.

The Giants Wall of Fame recognizes retired players whose records stand highest among their teammates on the basis of longevity and achievements.

Willie Mays (#24) began his career in New York, moving with the Giants to San Francisco in 1958; he did not play in most of 1952 and all of 1953 due to his service in the Korean War.

Broadcasters Lon Simmons (1958–73, 1976–78, 1996–2002 & 2006), Russ Hodges (1949–70), and Jon Miller (1997–current) are each represented by an old-style radio microphone displayed in place of a number.

[43] Giants' television telecasts are on NBC Sports Bay Area (cable) with select games simulcasted on KNTV (broadcast).

KNTV's broadcast contract with the Giants began in 2008, one year after the team and KTVU mutually ended a relationship that dated to 1961.

[44] Jon Miller regularly called the action on KNTV, which used to be exclusive to the NBC Bay Area channel up until 2021, while the announcing team for NBCSBA telecasts is Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow, affectionately known as "Kruk and Kuip" (pronounced "Kruke" and "Kype").

Shawn Estes, Javier López, and Hunter Pence serve as an alternate analysts for all other Giants road games with either Kuiper or Flemming.

[49][50] Following a Giants home win, Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is played in Oracle Park in celebration.