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1947 New York Giants (MLB) season

Field	Value
name	New York Giants
season	1947
image	New York Giants MLB Cap Logo (1933 to 1935, 1947 to 1948).svg
league	National League
ballpark	Polo Grounds
city	New York City
record
league_place	4th
owners	Horace Stoneham
general_managers	Chub Feeney
managers	Mel Ott
radio	WMCA
(Frankie Frisch, Steve Ellis)
television	WNBT
(Frankie Frisch, Steve Ellis)
prev_season	1946 New York Giants (MLB) season
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season_list	List of San Francisco Giants seasons

(Frankie Frisch, Steve Ellis) (Frankie Frisch, Steve Ellis) |}} The 1947 New York Giants season was the franchise's 65th season. The team finished in fourth place in the National League with an 81–73 record, 13 games behind the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was the first season to be broadcast on television, with WNBT acting as the official team television broadcast partner.

Offseason

December 19, 1946: Harry Danning was released by the Giants.
Prior to 1947 season: Nick Testa was acquired by the Giants from the Walden Hummingbirds.

Regular season

April 18: In the third inning of a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, Dave Koslo gave up Jackie Robinson's first major league home run.
April 19: 32,355 paying fans and 736 servicemen set the record for the biggest Saturday attendance at the Polo Grounds. Jackie Robinson had three at bats and had two singles and one double. The Giants still managed to win the game by a score of 4–3.

Between September 5 and 23, the Giants hit at least one home run in each of 19 games, the longest such streak in franchise history (considering records from 1914 onwards).

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day lineup

Centerfield: Fuzz White
Shortstop: Bill Rigney
Leftfield: Clint Hartung
First base: Johnny Mize
Rightfield: Willard Marshall
Catcher: Walker Cooper
Third base: Sid Gordon
Second base: Bobby Thomson
Pitcher: Bill Voiselle

Notable transactions

April 12, 1947: Jess Pike was released by the Giants.

Roster

1947 New York Giants
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

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

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	140	515	157	.305	35	122
1B	154	586	177	.302	51	138
2B	130	531	142	.267	17	59
3B	112	329	79	.240	11	35
SS	138	547	157	.287	7	49
OF	130	437	119	.272	13	57
OF	155	587	171	.291	36	107
OF	138	545	154	.283	29	85

Other batters

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

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
73	179	44	.246	6	17
51	160	35	.219	3	17
55	153	40	.261	0	13
48	110	31	.282	4	21
62	95	21	.221	2	18
13	45	14	.311	1	3
14	14	1	.071	0	0
7	13	3	.231	0	0
6	12	5	.417	0	2
5	6	1	.167	0	0
3	5	1	.200	0	0
1	5	1	.200	0	0
4	4	0	.000	0	0
2	2	1	.500	0	1

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
42	248.0	21	5	3.16	104
39	217.1	15	10	4.39	86
23	138.0	9	7	4.57	54
7	60.0	4	3	2.55	25
8	36.2	1	5	7.12	12

Other pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
34	148.1	9	12	4.85	60
27	82.1	1	5	4.37	18
20	71.1	3	8	5.93	46
15	55.2	2	2	3.88	24
11	42.2	1	4	4.64	20
13	35.1	0	3	8.15	22
7	12.0	0	0	10.50	6
2	7.0	0	0	7.71	1

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
62	8	4	10	3.75	37
32	3	3	2	4.23	23
15	4	2	0	4.29	13
7	0	0	0	6.23	2
2	0	0	0	12.00	0
1	0	0	0	9.00	0

Farm system

Notes

References

1947 New York Giants team at Baseball-Reference
1947 New York Giants team at Baseball Almanac

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/danniha01.shtml Harry Danning] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/t/testani01.shtml Nick Testa] at ''Baseball-Reference''
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, p. 68, Jonathan Eig, Simon & Schuster, 2007, New York, {{ISBN. 978-0-7432-9461-4
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season, p. 69
"Team Batting Streak Finder: Longest Streak with HR>=1 From 1914 to 2014, Playing for SFG". [[Baseball-Reference.com]].
(April 15, 1947). "New York Giants at Philadelphia Phillies Box Score". sports-reference.com.
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pikeje01.shtml Jess Pike] at ''Baseball-Reference''
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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