1976 San Francisco Giants season

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[edit] Move to Toronto

Attendance at cold and windy Candlestick Park plummeted, and Stoneham faced financial hardship. Finally, in 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..

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Opening Day Starters

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

[edit] Season standings

[edit] Roster

[edit] Player Stats

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[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

[edit] Other batters

[edit] Starting pitchers

[edit] Other pitchers

[edit] Relief pitchers

[edit] Award Winners

All-Star Game

• John Montefusco, Reserve

[edit] References

• 1976 San Francisco Giants team page at Baseball Reference
• 1976 San Francisco Giants team page at Baseball Almanac