As one of the longest-established professional baseball teams, the franchise has won the most games of any team in the history of American baseball, and any North American professional sports team. The team was the first major league team based in New York City, most memorably playing at the legendary Polo Grounds.[2] They have won 23 National League pennants and appeared in 20 World Series competitions – both records in the National League. The Giants eight World Series Championships rank second in the National League (the St. Louis Cardinals have won 11) and are tied for fourth overall with the Boston Red Sox behind the New York Yankees with 27, the Cardinals, and the Oakland Athletics with nine. The Giants have played in the World Series 20 times (14 times in New York, 6 times in San Francisco, the most recent being 2014), but boycotted the event in 1904. The Giants have the most Hall of Fame players in all of professional baseball.[3] The Giants rivalry with the Dodgers is one of the longest-standing and biggest rivalries in American baseball.[4][5] The teams began their rivalry as the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, respectively, before moving west for the 1958 season. ftw.usatoday/2014/10/san-francisco-giants-world-series-game-7-bumgarner-mlb
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