The Ottawa Giants were a professional minor-league baseball team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that operated in 1951 after the relocation of an existing Triple-A team, the Jersey City Giants. It played at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa and finished with a 62–88 record, in seventh place in the eight-team International League and 31 games in arrears of the regular season and playoff champion Montreal Royals. The Ottawa Giants drew 117,411 fans[1] through the Lansdowne Park turnstiles, also seventh in the league.
Lansdowne Park, 1950s
^Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (1997). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (2nd ed.). Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America. ISBN 978-0-9637189-8-3.
The OttawaGiants were a professional minor-league baseball team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada that operated in 1951 after the relocation of an existing...
League's Ottawa Wanderers, the International League's OttawaGiants, Ottawa Athletics and Ottawa Lynx, the Intercounty Baseball League's Ottawa Fat Cats...
each year. In 1951, the New York Giants of the National League operated two Triple-A affiliates, the OttawaGiants and the Minneapolis Millers of the...
to play in Ottawa, after the former OttawaGiants and Ottawa Athletics of the 1950s. The application was contingent on the City of Ottawa building a baseball...
commonly referred to as the Little Giants. Jersey City hosted numerous minor league teams before and since the Giants, including 1½ seasons (from July 13...
1951 for the Triple-A International League OttawaGiants and later the Syracuse Mets after the New York Giants bought him, later sending him back to the...
maximizing profits. Giant Tiger #1, opened in Ottawa's historic Byward Market in 1961, was company-owned. The first franchised Giant Tiger was opened by...
season with the Triple-A OttawaGiants of the International League. In 1952, Bamberger again was a member of the big-league Giants during the season's early...
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League franchises in its history. The OttawaGiants (1951), the Ottawa Athletics (1952–1955) and most recently, the Ottawa Lynx (1993–2007). The Lynx were once...
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as parent team of the Triple-A OttawaGiants of the International League. The Athletics recalled Watlington from Ottawa in the midsummer of 1953, and he...
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before playing part of one season in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants in 1951. He was born in Springville, Alabama. Wilson is recognized as the...
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Giants (1946–57). It returned to the Red Sox organization as a result of a swap on October 15, 1957 with the San Francisco Seals joining the Giants which...
career in the major leagues, Gardner was a second baseman for the New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees...
international play in the 1950s. In 1950 and 1951, Ottawa hosted the New York Giants in exhibition games; the Giants won both times, and NFL-CFL matches were not...
The stadium was the home venue of the OttawaGiants and Ottawa Athletics minor-league baseball teams. Ottawa Fury FC were the first professional soccer...
York Giants practice squad. He signed a reserve/future contract on January 22, 2023. He was waived on August 29, 2023. Pimpleton signed with the Ottawa Redblacks...
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join the Big Four, the Ottawa Rough Riders folded as part of a merger with the Ottawa St. Patricks to form the new OttawaGiants football club. The new...
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