{"id":741,"date":"2026-08-01T01:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:28:49","slug":"this-date-in-ny-giants-history-august-1-1933-1945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"THIS DATE IN NY GIANTS HISTORY: AUGUST 1, 1933 &#038; 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUGUST 1, 1933<br \/>Giants&#8217; hurler Carl Hubbell sets a National League record for consecutive scoreless innings with 45 1\/3 breaking the 1908 mark of Ed Ruelbach.(Nationalpastime.com)<\/p>\n<p>AUGUST 1, 1945<br \/>At the Polo Grounds, Mel Ott hits his historic 500th career home run off Braves&#8217; hurler Johnny Hutchings in the Giants&#8217; 9-2 victory over Boston. Joining Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx, &#8216;Master Melvin&#8217; becomes the third major leaguer to accomplish this career milestone. (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>AUGUST 1, 1933Giants&#8217; hurler Carl Hubbell sets a National League record for consecutive scoreless innings with 45 1\/3 breaking the 1908 mark of Ed Ruelbach.(Nationalpastime.com) AUGUST 1, 1945At the Polo Grounds, Mel Ott hits his historic 500th career home run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/?p=741\">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":[],"class_list":["post-741","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\/741","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=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkgiantspreservationsociety.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}