{"id":1853,"date":"2014-09-23T21:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T01:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2014-09-23T21:21:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T01:21:33","slug":"george-spencer-ny-giants-pitcher-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"GEORGE SPENCER NY GIANTS PITCHER PASSES AWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GEORGE<\/a>
\nTWENTY-SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE NY GIANTS REMAIN <\/p>\n

FROM WIKIPEDIA: George Elwell Spencer (July 7, 1926 \u2013 September 10, 2014) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. A right-hander, he was primarily a relief pitcher for the New York Giants and the Detroit Tigers.[1] Spencer stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 215 pounds (98 kg).<\/p>\n

A graduate of Bexley High School in Columbus and The Ohio State University, where he played quarterback on the OSU varsity football team,[2][3] Spencer was a key member of the 1951 Giants’ pitching staff, leading the club in saves and winning ten of 14 decisions, including a key August start over the front-running Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants would famously overcome a 13\u00bd-game, mid-August deficit to tie Brooklyn on the season’s final day, then defeated the Dodgers for the National League pennant on Bobby Thomson’s historic Game 3 home run.<\/p>\n

THE TWENTY-SEVEN SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE NY GIANTS
\n\u25a0Joey Amalfitano 1954-55 B:1\/23\/1934
\n\u25a0Johnny Antonelli 1954-57 B: 4\/12\/1930
\n\u25a0Jackie Brandt 1956 B: 4\/28\/1934
\n\u25a0Ed Bressoud 1956-57 B: 5\/2\/1932
\n\u25a0Pete Burnside 1955, 1957 B: 7\/2\/1930
\n\u25a0Foster Castleman 1954-57 B: 1\/1\/1931
\n\u25a0Gil Coan 1955 B: 5\/18\/1922
\n\u25a0Ray Crone 1957 B: 8\/7\/1931
\n\u25a0Alvin Dark 1950-56 B: 1\/7\/1922
\n\u25a0Joe Garagiola 1954 B: 2\/12\/1926
\n\u25a0Billy Gardner 1954-55 B: 7\/19\/1927
\n\u25a0Harvey Gentry 1954 B: 5\/27\/1926
\n\u25a0Monte Irvin 1949-55 B: 2\/25\/1919
\n\u25a0Joe Margoneri 1956-57 B: 1\/13\/1930
\n\u25a0Willie Mays 1951-52, 1954-57 B: 5\/6\/1931
\n\u25a0Windy McCall 1954-57 B: 7\/18\/1925
\n\u25a0Mike McCormick 1956-57 B: 9\/28\/1938
\n\u25a0Charlie Mead 1943-45 B: 4\/29\/1921
\n\u25a0Stu Miller 1957 B: 12\/26\/1927
\n\u25a0Ron Samford 1954 B: 2\/28\/1930
\n\u25a0Red Schoendienst 1956-57 B: 2\/2\/1923
\n\u25a0Daryl Spencer 1952-53, 1956-57 B: 7\/13\/1929
\n\u25a0Wayne Terwilliger 1955-56 B: 6\/27\/1925
\n\u25a0Ozzie Virgil 1956-57 B: 5\/17\/1933
\n\u25a0Bill White 1956 B: 1\/28\/1934
\n\u25a0Al Worthington 1953-54, 1956-57 B: 2\/5\/1929
\n\u25a0Roy Wright 1956 B: 9\/26\/1933
\nMonte Irvin is the oldest living member of the New York Giants (95), while Mike McCormick turns 76 next week and is the youngest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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