1976 San Francisco Giants season

MLB yearly infobox alt
name = San Francisco Giants
season = 1976
misc =

current league = National League
y1 = 1883
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Candlestick Park
y4 = 1960
city = San Francisco, California
y5 = 1958
owners = Horace Stoneham and Bob Lurie
general managers = Spec Richardson
managers = Bill Rigney
television = KTVU
(Al Michaels, Gary Park)
radio = KSFO
(Al Michaels, Lon Simmons)|

Move to Toronto

Attendance at cold and windy Candlestick Park plummeted, and Stoneham faced financial hardship. Finally, in by|1976, he put the team up for sale. The Giants very nearly moved back east, to Toronto. In addition, it was briefly rumored they considered a return to the metropolitan New York area, perhaps to a new baseball stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. In 1976, 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. Although Toronto was awarded with its own expansion team, the Blue Jays in 1977, it would not be the last time that San Francisco's baseball fans would fear the possibility of losing its team..

Regular season

Opening Day Starters

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

eason standings

Transactions

*June 13, 1976: Darrell Evans was traded by the Atlanta Braves with Marty Perez to the San Francisco Giants for Willie Montañez, Craig Robinson, Mike Eden, and Jake Brown. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/e/evansda01.shtml]

Roster

Pitching

tarting pitchers

Award Winners

All-Star Game
* John Montefusco, Reserve

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SFG/1976.shtml 1976 San Francisco Giants team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1976&t=SFN 1976 San Francisco Giants team page at Baseball Almanac]