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1953 New York Giants (MLB) season

Major League Baseball season

Field	Value
name	New York Giants
season	1953
image	New York Giants MLB Cap Logo (1949 to 1957).svg
league	National League
ballpark	Polo Grounds
city	New York City
record
league_place	5th
owners	Horace Stoneham
general_managers	Chub Feeney
managers	Leo Durocher
television	WPIX
(Russ Hodges, Ernie Harwell)
radio	WMCA
(Russ Hodges, Ernie Harwell)
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season_list	List of San Francisco Giants seasons

(Russ Hodges, Ernie Harwell) (Russ Hodges, Ernie Harwell) |}} The 1953 New York Giants season was the franchise's 71st season. The team finished in fifth place in the National League with a 70–84 record, 35 games behind the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Offseason

Marshall Bridges was signed as an amateur free agent by the Giants.
Han Urbanus was offered a contract, which would have made him the first European-trained player in the majors, and the first Dutch-born player since Bill Lelivelt in 1909. He declined to sign and returned to play in the Netherlands.
After 1953 season: The Giants embarked of a month-long exhibition tour to Hawaii, Japan, Manila, Okinawa, and Guam. This marked the first time a Major League Baseball team to play Japanese teams. The Giants went 12-1-1 during their tour in Japan, including beating the 1953 Japan Series champions, the Tokyo Giants, 11–1.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Opening Day lineup

Notable transactions

July 1, 1953: Marv Grissom was selected off waivers by the Giants from the Boston Red Sox.

Roster

1953 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	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Wes Westrum	107	290	65	.224	12	30
1B	Whitey Lockman	150	607	179	.295	9	61
2B	Davey Williams	112	340	101	.297	3	34
SS	Alvin Dark	155	647	194	.300	23	88
3B		114	388	117	.302	24	74
OF	Monte Irvin	124	444	146	.329	21	97
OF	Don Mueller	131	480	160	.333	6	60
OF	Bobby Thomson	154	608	175	.288	26	106

Other batters

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

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Daryl Spencer	118	408	85	.208	20	56
Bobby Hofman	74	169	45	.266	12	34
	76	163	38	.233	11	30
Tookie Gilbert	70	160	27	.169	3	16
Ray Noble	46	97	20	.206	4	14
Sal Yvars	23	47	13	.277	0	1
Sam Calderone	35	45	10	.222	0	8
Ray Katt	8	29	5	.172	0	1
Bill Rigney	19	20	5	.250	0	1
George Wilson	11	8	1	.125	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	29	204.0	13	11	3.40	113
Jim Hearn	36	196.2	9	12	4.53	77
Larry Jansen	36	184.2	11	16	4.14	88
Sal Maglie	27	145.1	8	9	4.15	80
Al Worthington	20	102.0	4	8	3.44	52
Alvin Dark	1	1.0	0	0	18.00	0

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Dave Koslo	37	111.2	6	12	4.76	36
	21	84.1	4	2	3.95	46
	8	20.1	0	1	11.07	11

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Hoyt Wilhelm	68	7	8	15	3.04	71
	48	6	4	2	4.98	49
Frank Hiller	19	2	1	0	6.15	10
Monty Kennedy	18	0	0	0	7.15	11
Max Lanier	3	0	0	0	6.75	2
George Spencer	1	0	0	0	7.71	1

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Sioux City, Danville

Notes

References

1953 New York Giants at Baseball Reference
1953 New York Giants at Baseball Almanac

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bridgma01.shtml Marshall Bridges] at ''Baseball Reference''
Josh Chetwynd. (2008). "Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History".
Rothenberg, Matt. "Team Tours of Japan Bridged Cultural Gap Following World War II". National Baseball Hall of Fame.
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grissma01.shtml Marv Grissom] at ''Baseball Reference''

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