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 San Francisco Seals (PCL) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the 1957 season, the New York Giants announced their move to San Francisco for the 1958 season, and the Seals were forced to relocate as a result.
During the 1914 season, the Sacramento Solons were moved to San Francisco, where they finished out the season playing as the San Francisco Missions, supposedly representing the city’s Mission District.
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_Seals_(PCL)   (593 words)

  
 San Francisco Seals (PCL) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the 1957 season, the New York Giants announced their move to San Francisco for the 1958 season, and the Seals were forced to relocate as a result.
During the 1914 season, the Sacramento Solons were moved to San Francisco, where they finished out the season playing as the San Francisco Missions, supposedly representing the city’s Mission District.
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_Seals_(PCL)   (603 words)

  
 San Francisco Seals (PCL) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the 1957 season, the New York Giants announced their move to San Francisco for the 1958 season, and the Seals were forced to relocate as a result.
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team which played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957.
Vancouver after the 1955 season, the Seals won their last PCL pennant in 1957, which proved to be their final year as well.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Francisco_Seals_(PCL)   (603 words)

  
 Ballparks of Baseball-Seals Stadium
When the New York Giants decided to move to San Francisco for the 1958 season they needed a place to play while a new stadium was being constructed.
San Francisco, CA Seals Stadium served as the home of the San Francisco Giants for two seasons.
The Giants played at Seals Stadium for two years, attracting over two million fans before moving to their new home Candlestick Park in 1960.
www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/SealsStadium.htm   (603 words)

  
 Ballparks of Baseball-Seals Stadium-San Francisco Giants
When the New York Giants decided to move to San Francisco for the 1958 season they needed a place to play while a new stadium was being constructed.
San Francisco, CA Seals Stadium served as the home of the San Francisco Giants for two seasons.
The stadium was constructed for the Pacific Coast League’s San Francisco Seals and Missions.
www.ballparksofbaseball.com /past/SealsStadium.htm   (284 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The San Francisco Seals, 1946-1957: Interviews with 25 Former Baseballers: Books
The San Francisco Seals were members of baseball's Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1958.
This work is a collection of oral histories of players who took the field for the Seals from 1946 through 1957, just before the Giants came to San Francisco and when the Seals played their final game.
Most San Franciscans were delighted with the arrival of major league baseball, as can be seen from the tremendous welcome that Willie Mays and Company received when they arrived and from the intense interest displayed after the season started.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786411880   (1077 words)

  
 SportingNews.com Fantasy Source - Baseball
Lon Simmons, 79, known for his signature "Tell it goodbye" home run call, said on Monday he will retire at the end of the San Francisco Giants' season.
Simmons started with the Giants in 1958 after they moved to San Francisco from New York.
Simmons plans to move to Hawaii for the offseason and said he might be back to call a few games for the Giants next season.
fantasy.sportingnews.com /baseball/articles/20020917/427865.html   (1077 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Seals Stadium
Ruben Gomez, who became the first pitcher from Puerto Rico to win a World Series game and pitched the first game for the San Francisco Giants at Seals Stadium in 1958, died Monday at age 77 at his home in Puerto Rico after a long illness.
April 6: The San Francisco Seals lose to the Seattle Rainiers, 8-5, in the opening game of the season at Seals Stadium.
Over campfires, we learned about his career as a baseball player, from old Seals Stadium in San Francisco to the Bay Area sandlots, where he pitched no-hitters and hit home runs.
venues.surfwax.com /files/Seals_Stadium.html   (1077 words)

  
 Monster Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ground was broken in 1958 as the new home of Major League Baseball 's San Francisco Giants, which was moving west from New York.
Monster Park (colloquially, The 'Stick, after its original name of Candlestick Park) is an outdoor sports and entertainment stadium located in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
Candlestick Park was named for Candlestick Point, a point of land jutting into the San Francisco bay.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Candlestick_Park   (1077 words)

  
 Historic Cheney Stadium Seats
The Seals continued to play in the stadium until the New York Giants moved to San Francisco for the 1958 season.
They saw their first baseball game as part of San Francisco Seals Stadium when it opened in 1931.
With Seals stadium no longer in use after the 1959 season and the pending construction of Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, the seats found a new home.
www.tacomarainiers.com /archive/historicseats.htm   (1077 words)

  
 Dave Henderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Lee Henderson (born July 21, 1958 in Merced, California, USA), best known as Dave Henderson, is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Seattle Mariners (1981-86), Boston Red Sox (1986-87), San Francisco Giants (1987), Oakland Athletics (1988-93) and Kansas City Royals (1994).
Henderson helped his teams reach the World Series four times during his career (1986 with Boston, 1988-1990 with Oakland), though his only ring came in 1989 when the A's defeated their Bay Area rival San Francisco Giants in four games.
Henderson was one of baseball's biggest surprises after signing as a free agent with Oakland following a brief stint with the Giants.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dave_Henderson   (842 words)

  
 National Baseball Hall of Fame - 2004 Frick Award Winner Lon Simmons
When the Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958, Russ Hodges was the only announcer to make the move, and Simmons joined him for the team's initial broadcasts at Seals Stadium.
An original voice of the Giants when they moved west, Simmons called games for San Francisco and Oakland for 41 years before retiring after the 2002 season.
He returned to the Giants in 1976 for three more years, then moved across the bay to Oakland, where he teamed with Bill King to broadcast Athletics games from 1981-95.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/frick_bios/simmons_lon.htm   (842 words)

  
 Morgan channeling Hodges-Simmons
After the Giants moved to San Francisco prior to the 1958 season, Joe Morgan -- then a teenager in Oakland -- became a devoted listener to Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons working the Giants' broadcasts.
This is the 16th season ESPN has carried Sunday night games, and it's the 16th season in which Miller and Morgan have been the broadcast team for those telecasts.
Now that he has spent two decades as a baseball announcer, Morgan says he tries to combine the sense of importance and drama Hodges brought to the booth with the sense of humor and enjoyment Simmons had.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/20/SPGO7CS7QC1.DTL   (842 words)

  
 Dom Zanni Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Zanni was 27 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 28, 1958, with the San Francisco Giants, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Did you know that you can compare Dom Zanni to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1958 National League season?
Dom Zanni's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Dom Zanni baseball statistics page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=zannido01   (309 words)

  
 Junior League Page.
Regular Season Team W L San Diego Padres 13 3 Oakland Oaks 10 4 SF Mission Reds 9 6 SF Seals 4 11 Portland Beavers 2 14 Post Season Intramural Tournament Winner MISSION REDS Please use this link to mail in game scores.
The Pacific Coast League was founded in 1903 and broke up in 1958, when the New Yor Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers moved West.
(In 1938, the Mission Reds moved from San Francisco to Hollywood, where they bacame the Stars.)
www.albanylittleleague.org /stan_jr.htm   (139 words)

  
 Orlando Cepeda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orlando Cepeda (born September 17, 1937) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and right-handed batter who played with the San Francisco Giants (1958-66), St.
In his first season in 1958, Cepeda batted.312 with 25 home runs and 96 runs RBI, led the National League in doubles (38), and was named Rookie of the Year.
Cepeda faced problems with drugs during his playing career, specially during the period he was with the Giants.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orlando_Cepeda   (365 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Alou named Giants manager, receives three-year deal
Alou was hired Wednesday to manage the National League champion San Francisco Giants, returning to the team he played for in the 1950s and '60s.
Alou played for the Giants from 1958-63 as part of a 17-season major league career in which he hit.286 with 206 homers and 852 RBIs.
Alou has the challenge of dealing with Barry Bonds, whose dugout shoving match with second baseman Jeff Kent -- a free agent not expected to return to the Giants -- was a low point in the team's successful year.
espn.go.com /mlb/news/2002/1113/1460334.html   (1038 words)

  
 Atlanta Braves Baseball
In 2002 and 2003, the Braves won their division again, but lost the NLCS both years 3 games to 2, to the San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs, respectively.
In the 1992 season, the Braves would reach the NLCS again and defeat, once again, in seven games, the Pirates, only to lose in the World Series to a dominating Toronto Blue Jays team.
The following season, these three pitchers would be recognized as the best young pitchers in the league, winning 52 games between them.
www.baseball-fanatics.com /mlb/braves.php   (1038 words)

  
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www.yoursanfranciscoguide.com /37/new-york-giants-relocate-san-francisco.html   (1038 words)

  
 Orlando Cepeda Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Cepeda was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 15, 1958, with the San Francisco Giants, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Orlando Cepeda's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Orlando Cepeda baseball statistics page.
Orlando Cepeda was born on Friday, September 17, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=cepedor01   (1038 words)

  
 Barry University --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
On Oct. 5, 2001, Barry Bonds, the left fielder of the San Francisco Giants, set a single-season major league baseball record by hitting his 71st and 72nd home runs, erasing the previous mark of 70 set by Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1998.
American civil rights activist and politician who served four terms as mayor of Washington, D.C. Barry received a bachelor's degree from LeMoyne College (1958) and a master's degree from Fisk University (1960).
A Roman Catholic institution, Barry was founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican nuns with help from Bishop Patrick Barry, Mother Mary Gerald Barry, Reverend William Barry, and Mayor John Thompson.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9310085   (1038 words)

  
 Billy Pierce BaseballLibrary.com
Pierce concluded his career with the Giants, and it was with San Francisco's 1962 NL pennant winners that he earned his WS decisions, including a three-hit 2-0 victory in Game Six.
This prep sensation from Detroit was acquired by the White Sox from the Tigers before the 1949 season in a lopsided deal for journeyman catcher Aaron Robinson and $10,000.
Pierce tied for the league lead in complete games each year from 1956 through 1958.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/P/Pierce_Billy.stm   (2145 words)

  
 Felipe Alou Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Alou was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on June 8, 1958, with the San Francisco Giants, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Felipe Alou was born on Sunday, May 12, 1935, in Haina, Dominican Republic.
Felipe Alou's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Felipe Alou baseball statistics page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=aloufe01   (226 words)

  
 TheKSBWChannel.com - Sports - Felipe Alou Given Contract Extension
Alou, who is the 37th manager in team history and the 15th since the Giants moved out West, has compiled a 214-159 mark since taking over as San Francisco's skipper prior to the 2003 campaign.
Alou played 17 seasons in the major leagues, from 1958-1974, and hit.286 with 206 homers and 852 RBI in 2,082 games.
Alou became the second manager in team history to lead his ballclub to the postseason in his first season at the helm.
www.theksbwchannel.com /sports/4557290/detail.html   (437 words)

  
 TheDenverChannel.com - Sports - Giants Name Felipe Alou Manager
The 67-year-old skipper began his playing career in 1958 with the Giants -- their first season in San Francisco after moving from New York.
Alou used the same word to describe his feelings about returning to the Giants.
Alou takes over for Dusty Baker, who led the Giants to within six outs of a World Series championship.
www.thedenverchannel.com /sports/1783917/detail.html   (405 words)

  
 Orlando Cepeda Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Cepeda was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 15, 1958, with the San Francisco Giants, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Orlando Cepeda was born on Friday, September 17, 1937, in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Orlando Cepeda's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Orlando Cepeda baseball statistics page.
baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=cepedor01   (199 words)

  
 Hank Sauer BaseballLibrary.com
Sauer finished up with the Giants, slugging 26 HR in their last season at the Polo Grounds before becoming a part-time player when they moved to San Francisco in 1958.
Sauer was a slow-footed slugger who didn't reach the majors to stay until 1948, when he was 31 years old.
Sauer was the first player to twice hit three home runs in a game off the same pitcher.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/S/Sauer_Hank.stm   (1029 words)

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