New York Giants - The Roaring Twenties (1920-1929)  
   
 
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        Yr P W L   Yr P W L   Yr P W L               1920  
        1920 2 86 68   1923 1 95 58   1927 3 92 62               Decade  
        1921 1 94 59   1924 1 93 60   1928 2 93 61               Click  
        1922 1 93 61   1925 2 86 66   1929 3 84 67               on Logo  
                  1926 5 74 77                            
                                                       
   
  Titles:  Top Giants Players of the Twenties  
  World Champs   (1921 beat the Yankees;  1922 beat the Yankees)  
  NL Champs (1923 lost to Yankees; 1924 lost to Washington) Pitchers:  
    Art Nehf (9.25) -   66  
  BallPark: Fred Fitzsimmons (11.07) -   47  
   Polo Grounds  Virgil Barnes (10.42) -   35  
    Larry Benton (10.46) -   32  
  Team Name: Jack Scott (10.27) -   32  
   Giants Jesse Barnes (6.32) -   31  
  Rosey Ryan (5.2) -   27  
  Owner:  Fred Toney (5.43) -   26  
   Charles A Stoneham Hugh McQuillan (8.15) -   26  
    Jack Bentley (2.54) -   25  
  General Manager: Phil Douglas (5.3) -   22  
    None Carl Hubbell (6.38) -   18  
    Burleigh Grimes (2.95) -   13  
  Managers:  Bill Walker (4.12) -   10  
   John McGraw  Claude Jonnard (3.81) -   4  
       
  No Hitters: Catchers:  
    Jesse Barnes (1922) Frank Snyder (8.78) -   38  
  Carl Hubbell (1929) Shanty Hogan (4.76) -   15  
    Earl Smith (5.85) -  9  
  Hall of Famers: Hank Gowdy (4.43) -  5  
  John McGraw   
  Burleigh Grimes First Basemen:  
  Carl Hubbell  George Kelly (23.96) -   60  
  Ray Schalk Bill Terry (17.86) -   43  
  Bill Terry    
  George Kelly Second Basemen:  
  Rogers Hornsby Frankie Frisch (37.6) -   86  
  Frankie Frisch Rogers Hornsby (10.07) -   15  
  Dave Bancroft    
  Travis Jackson ShortStop:  
  Fred Lindstrom Travis Jackson (27.64) -   63  
  Mel Ott Dave Bancroft (22.78) -   47  
  Edd Roush    
  Hack Wilson Third Base:  
  Ross Youngs Fred Lindstrom (14.99) -   37  
  Casey Stengel Heinie Groh (7.41) -   16  
       
  MVP Outfield:  
  None Ross Youngs (24.8) -   66  
    Irish Meusel (12.65) -   31  
  Notable Events: Mel Ott (11.46) -   26  
  George Burns (7.45) -   20  
  1920 - Another exceptional decade under John McGraw. McGraw took Edd Roush (2.99) -   14  
   advantage of tough financial times to cherry pick stars from the bottom George Harper (5.62) -  11  
   clubs in the league such as the Braves and the Phillies and a willing  Casey Stengel (4.45) -  8  
  Cincinnati Reds organization who had many ties to the Giants     
  (such as manager Christy Mathewson and the fact that, back in the day, Notable Events:  
   John Brush sold the Reds to current owner Gary Herrmann before buying   
  the Giants). Four pennants and three second place finishes makes it one 1924 - The Giants win their fourth straight pennant. They lose the   
   of the best decades in any team's history. And the Giants actually followed   World Series to Washington.  This also gave the Giants eight  
  thru and won a couple of World Series, beating Babe Ruth's Yankees twice    pennants in fourteen years, although they only managed to win  
  after having lost four world classics in a row.   two World Series in the run.  Yet another Giants blunder marked   
  The 1920 team had nine players who would play a significant role the 1924 Series loss. Giants catcher Hank Gowdy tripped over  
    in the coming decade: his mask chasing a Muddy Ruel popup, which he dropped.   
  □  Righthander Fred Toney, 31  This gave the Senators the impetus to rally and win the Series.  
  □  Lefthander Art Nehf, 27  A couple of bad hop singles over third baseman Fred Lindstrom's  
  □  Righthander Jesse Barnes, 27  head also contributed to the loss.   
  □  Righthander Virgil Barnes, 23    
  □  Catcher Frank Snyder, 26 1925 - Righthander Fat Freddie FitzSimmons, 23, is obtained from   
  □  First Baseman George Highpockets Kelly, 24, Hall of Famer  Indianapolis  
  □  Second Baseman Frankie Frisch, 22, Hall of Famer    
  □  Outfielder Ross Youngs, 23 1925 - New York takes it down a notch thru the end of the decade,  
  □  Outfielder George Burns, 30   not winning any more titles altho' they're still pretty good with two  
     seconds and two thirds. The game has now gotten away from   
  1921 - 1923 mark the first three subway series - all between the Giants and  McGraw, a bit, as he was a much better manager in the dead ball era  
  the Yankees. The Giants win the first two, the Yankees the third.  and didn't adjust fully to the live ball.   
   
  1921 - Outfielder Irish Meusel, 28, is purchased from the Phillies for $30K. 1926 - Future Hall of Fame outfielder Mel Ott is signed and brought  
   The Giants threw in two bodies to complete the deal  up to the Giants at the age of seventeen.  
     He'll end up playing twenty two years for the New York.  
  1921 - John McGraw evicts the Yankees from the Polo Grounds after      
  the Series. McGraw lived by the feud. Owner Charles Stoneham, who was 1927 - Lefthander Bill Walker, 23, is brought up from Denver.   
   also something of a thug, approved.    
   1927 - Righthander Larry Benton, 29, is obtained from the Braves in  
  1922 - Shortstop Travis Jackson, 18, future Hall of Famer, is signed and  a six player trade.   
   brought up by the Giants.    
   1927 - In a monumental deal, Hall of Fame second baseman  
  1922 - Thirty year old righthander Jack Scott is obtained from the Reds for   Frankie Frisch is traded to the Cards for Hall of Fame second  
   Larry Kopf and Rube Marquard  baseman Rogers Hornsby. Frisch is the better all around,  
     but Hornsby is one of the great hitters of all time. Not one   
  1923 - Twenty four year old outfielder Hack Wilson, future Hall of Famer,  of the more affable guys you would run into, Hornsby  
   is purchased by the Giants from Portsmouth. He is one that got away  wears out his welcome after only a year in New York.   
   as McGraw gets rid of him three years later for Earl Webb, of all people.    
   Slugger Wilson was the  prototypical player of his times but McGraw's old  1928 - Catcher Shanty Hogan, 22, is obtained from the Braves for   
  school bias couldn't accept that. McGraw wasn't so enamored with   Rogers Hornsby. This was Giants management punishing Hornsby  
  power but liked fiesty guys who could run, handle a bat, and play "D".  as there had developed a lot of animosity between them and Rogers.   
    The trade was made despite the fact that Hornsby had a big year    
  1923 - First Baseman Bill Terry, 24, is obtained from Toledo.  and had actually stepped in to manage the club due to McGraw's  
   He is a future Hall of Famer. Terry was a late bloomer as he knocked    health problems during the year. Unclear how things went so south  
  around playing semi pro ball after crashing out of pro ball at the young  so quickly between them.  
  age of eighteen. It's hard to say he wasted a lot of years because he    
   didn't come into his own until he was twenty eight.  1928 - Lefthander Carl Hubbell, 25, future Hall of Famer, is purchased  
   from the Detroit Tigers. Hubbell did not have a particularly impressive  
  1924 - Eighteen year old future Hall of Fame third baseman Freddie    minor league record but this was a monumental blunder by the Tigers.  
   Lindstrom is signed.  Hubbell would pitch until he was forty and win 253 games.