Located in San Jose, California, the Giants play their home games at Excite Ballpark.

A simple scoreboard shows basic game data like runs, strikes, balls, and outs.

The out-of-town scoreboard displaying other California League game scores was manually operated using hand-hung number cards.

Between innings, fans are treated to a variety of games and entertainment, such as kids' air guitar, a child footrace around the bases, or throwing a baseball at a truck's headlights for prizes.

Before Gigante's introduction, San Francisco Giants mascot Lou Seal made occasional appearances.

Many players on the Kansas City Royals teams of the 1970s and 1980s, including George Brett, Amos Otis, and Dennis Leonard played in San Jose.

(In 2001 the Giants were declared co-champions with the Lake Elsinore Storm after the final series was canceled after the September 11 terrorist attacks).

The San Jose Giants have developed more than 190 major league players, including Buster Posey, Tim Lincecum, Jonathan Sánchez, Matt Cain, Brian Horwitz, Noah Lowry, Merkin Valdez, Chad Zerbe, Russ Ortiz, Bill Mueller, Doug Mirabelli, Rod Beck, Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, Shawn Estes, Emmanuel Burriss, Andrés Torres, Pablo Sandoval, Madison Bumgarner and Adam Duvall.