{"id":1061,"date":"2026-01-31T01:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T06:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:21:51","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-january-31-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: JANUARY 31, 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY 31, 2001<br>The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Joshua Prager quotes former players Monte Irvin, Sal Yvars and Al Gettel &#8220;admitting&#8221; the team stole catchers&#8217; signs during the 1951 pennant race when the Giants overcame the Dodgers&#8217; 13 1\/2-game lead. According to Prager&#8217;s WSJ report, Bobby Thomson, whose three-run, ninth-inning walk-off homer in Game 3 of the National League playoffs won the pennant for New York, did not steal a sign before hitting his historic home run. (Nationalpastime.com)<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2673\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-39.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-39.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-39-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-39-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-39-500x144.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY 31, 2001The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Joshua Prager quotes former players Monte Irvin, Sal Yvars and Al Gettel &#8220;admitting&#8221; the team stole catchers&#8217; signs during the 1951 pennant race when the Giants overcame the Dodgers&#8217; 13 1\/2-game lead. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2866,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/2866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}