{"id":2972,"date":"2026-03-06T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:11:19","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-march-8-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: MARCH 6, 1884"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>High winds tear off the grandstand roof of Manhattan&#8217;s Southeast Diamond, but the one-year-old ballpark will be ready for the Gothams&#8217; National League home opener on May 1st. The team, renamed the Giants next season, will win their first dozen games at the repaired facility at 5th Avenue and 110th Street, commonly called Polo Grounds because the sport of kings took place at the site in the 1870s. (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-1-39-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-2-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-2-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-2-500x144.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High winds tear off the grandstand roof of Manhattan&#8217;s Southeast Diamond, but the one-year-old ballpark will be ready for the Gothams&#8217; National League home opener on May 1st. The team, renamed the Giants next season, will win their first dozen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2972\">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-2972","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\/2972","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=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}