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Over their 138-season history, the Giants have seen scores of talented players become synonymous with the numbers on the backs of their jerseys. Here’s a look at the best Giants player to wear each uniform number:
Oliver batted .298 with a .705 OPS over 91 games with the Giants in 1984 before being dealt to the Phillies in exchange for Kelly Downs and George Riley in a midseason trade.
Known as “HacMan,” Leonard endeared himself to Giants fans by trotting around the bases with his left arm tucked into his body one flap down. His signature moment came in 1987, when he crushed four homers against the Cardinals in the National League Championship Series and took home Series MVP honors despite the Giants losing in seven games.
Fred Jeter | 12/24/2020, 6 p.m. Josh Gibson
Slugging catcher Josh Gibson always had the talent to be a Major League Baseball player. That was never in question.
But it wasnât until last week that the man known as the âBlack Babe Ruthâ officially became a major leaguer.
In what Major League Baseball called a âlong overdue oversight in the gameâs history,â seven Negro Leagues that operated between 1920 and 1948 have been granted Major League status.
That means some 3,400 players for those Negro League teams are now Major Leaguers and that their statistics will be integrated into MLB records.
The Homestead Grays team
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Jackie Robinson, second from left, and Bob Feller, second from right, were beaming when they were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. They were selected in their first year of eligibility. Robinson got his start in the Negro Leagues.
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MLB finally does right by Negro Leagues: Editorial
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York s Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history. The league said Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, it was correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)AP
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York s Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history. The league said Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, it was correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total.