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1976 San Francisco Giants season

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General manager(s)
  
Spec Richardson

Manager(s)
  
Bill Rigney

Owner(s)
  
Horace Stoneham and Bob Lurie

Local television
  
KTVU (Al Michaels, Gary Park)

Local radio
  
KSFO (Al Michaels, Lon Simmons)

The 1976 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 94th season in Major League Baseball, their 19th season in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 17th at Candlestick Park. The team finished in fourth place in the National League West with an 74–88 record, 28 games behind the Cincinnati Reds.

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Team movement discussion

During the first half of the 1970s, attendance at cold and windy Candlestick Park plummeted, and Giants owner Horace Stoneham had faced financial hardship. Finally, in 1976, he put the team up for sale. In January 1976, Stoneham agreed to sell the team for $13.25 million to a Toronto group consisting of Labatt's Breweries of Canada, Ltd., Vulcan Assets Ltd., and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The team would begin play with the 1976 season at Exhibition Stadium and be called the Giants. In addition, it was briefly rumored they considered a return to the New York metropolitan area, perhaps to a new baseball stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Instead, Bob Lurie led a group to buy the Giants from Horace Stoneham for $8 million, thereby saving the team from potentially being sold to a Canadian brewery and moved to Toronto.

Notable transactions

  • January 7, 1976: Dennis Littlejohn was drafted by the Giants in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1976 Major League Baseball Draft (Secondary Phase).

    • Opening Day starters

  • Von Joshua
  • Gary Matthews
  • Willie Montañez
  • John Montefusco
  • Bobby Murcer
  • Dave Rader
  • Ken Reitz
  • Chris Speier
  • Derrel Thomas

    • Notable transactions

  • June 2, 1976: Von Joshua was purchased from the Giants by the Milwaukee Brewers.
  • June 13, 1976: Willie Montañez, Craig Robinson, Mike Eden, and Jake Brown were traded by the Giants to the Atlanta Braves for Darrell Evans and Marty Perez.
  • June 14, 1976: Joe Strain was signed as an amateur free agent by the Giants.
  • June 21, 1976: Casey Parsons was signed as an amateur free agent by the Giants.
  • September 3, 1976: Randy Elliott was signed as a free agent by the Giants.

    • Draft picks

  • June 8, 1976: Jeff Stember was drafted by the Giants in the 26th round of the 1976 Major League Baseball Draft.

    • Starters by position

    Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

    Other batters

    Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

    Starting pitchers

    Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

    Other pitchers

    Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

    Relief pitchers

    Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

    Award winners

    All-Star Game

  • John Montefusco, reserve

    • Farm system

    LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Great Falls

    References

    1976 San Francisco Giants season Wikipedia
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