San Francisco Giants

The Giants have been playing Major League baseball since 1883 when they were first located in New York and the team was called the New York Gothams. The Gothams baseball team was originally formed by Jim Mutrie and John B. Day. It was not until 1885 that the Gothams became known as the New York Giants when their manager, Mutrie, described them as such. The Giants were based out of New York until 1957 when they were relocated to San Francisco.http://mlb.mlb.com/sf/history/timeline.jsp The Giants baseball team has seen many famed ball players throughout the years such as Barry Bonds and Willie Mays. The team has won five World Series Championships, six Division Championships and twenty Major League Pennants. http://baseball.about.com/od/sanfranciscogiants/p/giantsprofile.htm

The San Francisco Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies and took home the National League Pennant which secured their place in the 2010 World Series Championship where they will face off against the Texas Rangers.http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101023&content_id=15813996&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=sfThis win marks the thirteenth National League Championship victory for the Giants ball club. Having only joined the Giants team two months ago in August, Cody Ross was the player named MVP for the National League Championship series and became a member of the elite group of only three other Giants players to have received the award.http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101023&content_id=15816832&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sfThe 2010 World Series will be the fourth time the Giants have reached the championship game since the team moved to San Francisco in 1957. http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20101024&content_id=15822654&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sf

There are 25 players on the 2010 San Francisco Giants roster. http://giants.mlb.com/team/roster_active.jsp?c_id=sf

Pitchers

• Jeremy Affeldt
• Madison Bumgarner
• Matt Cain
• Santiago Casilla
• Tim Lincecum
• Javier Lopez
• Guillermo Mota
• Ramon Ramirez
• Sergio Romo
• Jonathan Sanchez
• Brian Wilson

Catchers

• Buster Posey
• Eli Whiteside

Infielders

• Mike Fontenot
• Aubrey Huff
• Travis Ishikawa
• Edgar Renteria
• Freddy Sanchez
• Pablo Sandoval
• Juan Uribe

Outfielders

• Pat Burrell
• Cody Ross
• Aaron Rowand
• Nate Schierholtz
• Andres Torres

• World Series Championshipshttp://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws.jsp

1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954

• National League Championshipshttp://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_lcs.jsp

1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1923, 1924, 1936, 1937, 1951, 1962, 1989, 2002