{"id":1334,"date":"2026-04-02T01:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:22:41","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-april-2-1952-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: APRIL 2, 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 2, 1952<br>In Denver, Giants&#8217; Monte Irvin breaks his ankle sliding into third base during an exhibition game against Cleveland. The future Hall of Fame outfielder will appear in only 46 games this season, mostly as a pinch-hitter, batting .310. (Nationalpastime.com)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-17.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2717\"\/><\/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>APRIL 2, 1952In Denver, Giants&#8217; Monte Irvin breaks his ankle sliding into third base during an exhibition game against Cleveland. The future Hall of Fame outfielder will appear in only 46 games this season, mostly as a pinch-hitter, batting .310. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1334\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","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\/1334","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=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}