{"id":2969,"date":"2026-03-04T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:10:34","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-march-4-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: MARCH 4, 1919"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Giants&#8217; manager John McGraw reluctantly grants Slim Sallee&#8217;s wish and sells him to the Reds, but the team will reacquire the southpaw late next season, selecting off him waivers from Cincinnati. During his five seasons with New York, &#8216;Scatter&#8217; compiles a 42-23 (.646) record and an ERA of 2.26. (Nationalpastime.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-1-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-1-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-1-500x144.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giants&#8217; manager John McGraw reluctantly grants Slim Sallee&#8217;s wish and sells him to the Reds, but the team will reacquire the southpaw late next season, selecting off him waivers from Cincinnati. During his five seasons with New York, &#8216;Scatter&#8217; compiles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2969\">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-2969","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\/2969","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=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2977,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}