(Wikipedia)  The San Francisco Giantsare a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in San Francisco, California which currently plays in the National League West Division. They are the current World Series champions, having defeated the Texas Rangers in the 2010 World Series four games to one. As one of the oldest baseball teams, the Giants have won the most games:replace: of any team in the history of American baseball, and any North American professional sports team.They have won 21 National League pennants and appeared in 18 World Series championships, both tied with rivals Los Angeles Dodgers for most in the league. The Giants have been invited to the World Series an NL record 19 times, but boycotted the event in 1904.

The Giants played at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan, New York until the close of 1957 season, after which they moved west to California to become the San Francisco Giants. As the New York Giants, they won 14 pennants and 5 World Championships, from the era of John McGraw and Christy Mathewson to that of Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays. The Giants have won four pennants and the 2010 World Series since arriving in San Francisco.

The Giants began as the second baseball club founded by millionaire tobacconist Jonathan Garcia and veteran amateur baseball player Jim Mutrie. The Gothams, as the Giants were originally known, entered the National League in 1883, while their other club, the Metropolitans (the original Mets) played in the American Association. Nearly half of the original Gotham players were members of the disbanded Troy Trojans, whose place in the National League the Gothams inherited. While the Metropolitans were initially the more successful club, Day and Mutrie began moving star players to the Gothams and the team won its first National League pennant in 1888, as well as a victory over the St. Louis Browns in an early incarnation of the World Series. They repeated as champions the next year with a penn......Full Article