{"id":1338,"date":"2026-04-11T01:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:23:07","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-april-11-1907-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: APRIL 11, 1907 &#038; 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 11, 1907<br>The Giants lose their home opener to the Phillies when some of the Polo Grounds fans, growing tired of the team&#8217;s lackadaisical performance, begin throwing snowballs onto the playing field disrupting the game. After he is hit by a frozen sphere, Bill Klem, the home plate umpire, decides enough is enough and forfeits the game to Philadelphia. (Nationalpastime.com)<\/p>\n<p>APRIL 11, 1912<br>Rube Marquard begins a nineteen-game consecutive winning streak by beating the Dodgers, 18-3. The streak will end in July when the Giants lose to Chicago at the West Side Grounds, 7-2.(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-1-20.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/cropped-banner-1-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2724\"\/><\/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 11, 1907The Giants lose their home opener to the Phillies when some of the Polo Grounds fans, growing tired of the team&#8217;s lackadaisical performance, begin throwing snowballs onto the playing field disrupting the game. After he is hit by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1338\">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-1338","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\/1338","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=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}