July 16, 1936 – It is hard to fathom in any era of baseball, but when an MLB team is in the double digits behind the division leaders, that is usually “all she wrote.” However, the New York Giants are one of the rare teams that staged a back half of the season comeback.
On this date, the Giants were 10½ games back in NL, and they went on a roll to go on to win the NL pennant. Bill Terry was the manager and he guided the squad to face the Yankees in a subway series. The Giants went on to lose to the New York Yankees in the 1936 World Series, four games to two.
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