{"id":2982,"date":"2026-03-25T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:16:41","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-march-25-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2982","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: MARCH 25, 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>The Giants sign their skipper John McGraw to a five-year contract for $200,000. The deal makes Mugsy, who will lead the New York to 10 National League pennants and three World Series championships during his 31-year tenure with the team, the highest-paid figure in major league baseball. (Nationalpastime.com)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-4-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-4-768x221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/cropped-banner-1-39-4-500x144.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Giants sign their skipper John McGraw to a five-year contract for $200,000. The deal makes Mugsy, who will lead the New York to 10 National League pennants and three World Series championships during his 31-year tenure with the team, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=2982\">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-2982","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\/2982","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=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}