{"id":683,"date":"2026-07-08T02:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:27:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:27:39","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-july-8-1949-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: JULY 8, 1949 &#038; 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, 1949<br \/>Hank Thompson &amp; Monte Irvin becomes the first African-Americans to play for the Giants. When Thompson faces Dodger right-hander Don Newcombe, it marks the first time a pitcher-batter confrontation takes place between black players in the major leagues.(Nationalpastime.com)<\/p>\n<p>July 8, 1956<br \/>In an 11-1 rout of the Pirates at the Polo Grounds, the Giants go deep for a franchise record seven home runs. Willie Mays, Daryl Spencer and Wes Westrum each connect for a pair and Hank Thompson adds another.(Nationalpastime.com)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\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>July 8, 1949Hank Thompson &amp; Monte Irvin becomes the first African-Americans to play for the Giants. When Thompson faces Dodger right-hander Don Newcombe, it marks the first time a pitcher-batter confrontation takes place between black players in the major leagues.(Nationalpastime.com) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=683\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-baseball-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}