Yomiuri Giants

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Contents 1 Franchise History 2 Former Giants in Boston 3 Retired numbers 4 Trivia 5 External Links

Franchise History

• Update

Former Giants in Boston

• Hideki Okajima
• Reggie Smith
• Shane Mack
• Tuffy Rhodes
• John Wasdin
• Roberto Petagine
• Gabe Kapler
• Hector Almonte
• Jeff Manto

Retired numbers

• 1 - Sadaharu Oh
• 3 - Shigeo Nagashima
• 4 - Toshio Kurosawa
• 14 - Eiji Sawamura
• 16 - Tetsuharu Kawakami
• 34 - Masaichi Kaneda

Trivia

• Year Founded: 1934
• Yomiuri Giants name and uniforms were based on the New York Giants. The teams colors (orange and black) are the same colors worn by the National League's Giants, both in New York and San Francisco.
• The Giants' main rivalry is with the Hanshin Tigers, a team especially popular in the Kansai region.
• It has been said because of the lengthy MLBPA strike in the United States, and because of Japanese lore of the meaning of 60th anniversaries, the 1994 60th Anniversary Yomiuri Giants were the luckiest team in professional baseball. Many journalists called the 1994 team the World Champions of Professional Baseball.

External Links

• Giants wiki Page