Monthly Archives: November 2012

STATE OF NY GIANTS: CHUCK DIERING, FORMER NY GIANTS OUTFIELDER, PASSES AWAY AT 89

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Chuck Diering, who spent nine seasons in the major leagues as an outfielder with the Baltimore Orioles, New York Giants, and St. Louis Cardinals, passed away Friday after taking a fall at his home in Spanish Lake, Mo. He was 89. He played in the 1952 season for the Giants hitting .174 with 2RBI’s in 41 games.
Here is a link to his story and obit.
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With Diering’s passing, only 31 NY Giants remain. Here is the updated list:
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THE STATE OF THE NY GIANTS: BOYD “GAIL” HARRIS PASSES

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Boyd “Gail” Harris, who on September 21, 1957, at Forbes Field hit the last two New York Giants home runs, passed away Wednesday, November 14, in Gainesville, Va., at the age of 81. He spent most of 1955, some of 1956 and all of 1957 with the Giants before being traded to Detroit for Ozzie Virgil ahead of the 1958 season. (Thanks Greg Prince)

With Harris’s passing, only 32 NY Giants remain. Here is the updated list:

  • Joey Amalfitano 1954-55         B:1/23/1934

  • Johnny Antonelli 1954-57        B: 4/12/1930

  • Jackie Brandt 1956                  B: 4/28/1934

  • Ed Bressoud 1956-57              B: 5/2/1932

  • Pete Burnside 1955, 1957       B: 7/2/1930

  • Foster Castleman 1954-57      B: 1/1/1931

  • Gil Coan 1955                           B: 5/18/1922

  • Ray Crone 1957                       B: 8/7/1931

  • Alvin Dark 1950-56                  B: 1/7/1922

  • Chuck Diering 1952                B: 2/5/1923

  • Joe Garagiola 1954                 B: 2/12/1926

  • Billy Gardner 1954-55             B: 7/19/1927

  • Harvey Gentry 1954                B: 5/27/1926

  • Jack Harshman 1952              B: 7/12/1927

  • Monte Irvin 1949-55               B: 2/25/1919

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BUSTER POSEY, MVP!!

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Even NY Giants fans would love this guy. The epitome of a player. He plays for the team not himself. An old-time player who plays smart and knows what he is doing without making a spectacle of himself or the game!! He means so much to the team beyond his tremendous statistics. Most deserving of MVP Award! Congrats to Buster and his fans!! He is the reason we are now winners!!!

WORLD SERIES TROPHY HEADING OUR WAY!!!

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NOW ENJOYING CONTINUAL SUCCESS, THE GIANTS WILL HONOR THEIR ROOTS
By DAVID WALDSTEIN (FROM THE NYTIMES)

DETROIT — It has become Mike Murphy’s new biennial tradition. When the Giants win the World Series, he immediately calls Willie Mays. And then he calls his wife.
The Giants’ celebration of winning the World Series, as in 2010, will spill into New York, where the franchise played until 1958.
It’s understandable. Murphy, the Giants’ avuncular equipment manager, and Mays share a deep friendship. It goes all the way back to Murphy’s first day with the team as the Giants’ bat boy in 1958, the year the club moved to San Francisco from New York.
In 2010, when the Giants won their first World Series as a Bay Area team, Murphy did the same thing as he did Sunday night. And the Giants as a team are basically sticking to their script, too. After they won in 2010, they paid homage to their New York roots by sending Mays, the star catcher Buster Posey and the championship trophy to Manhattan for what amounted to a sentimental victory tour of the city.
And now they’re going to do it again. “We’re bringing it back,” exclaimed Giants General Manager Brian Sabean amid the euphoric celebration here Sunday night after his team won Game 4 to sweep the Tigers. “Tell everyone in New York to get ready, because we’re coming with it.”
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