"Giants" mystery (1885)

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It looks like "Giants" wasn't coined on June 3, 1885...My computer's still at
COMP USA after being "fixed." Damn COMP USA. I have to pay for this.
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28 May 1885, New York Herald, pg. 5, col. 4:
The New Yorks fairly wiped up the Polo Ground with the Buffaloes yesterday,
to the great enjoyment of their many admirers. The giant batters went at Galvin
in such a vigorous manner that they pounded him all over the field and got
the rest of the Buffalo players rattled so badly that they were unable to play
in their usually fine style.
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3 June 1885, New York Daily Tribune, pg. 2, col. 3:
The New-York League club was defeated by the Philadelphia nine at the Polo
Grounds yesterday, not through brilliant playing on the part of the visitors,
but through the wretched work of the home club. Daily pitched for the
Philadelphia nine with such effect that the so-called local giants could only knock
little "pop up" flies, which the basemen or fielders easily captured.
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10 June 1885, Sporting Life (Philadelphia), pg. 3, col. 2:
_Games Played June 1._
PHILADELPHIA VS. NEW YORK at Philadelphia June 1.
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Ferguson was effective and kept the "giants" down to six singles, and two of
them were scratches.
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10 June 1885, Sporting Life, pg. 4, col. 5:
It is getting to be almost sickening to read the morning papers and see how
the "Giants" are lauded to the skies, win or lose.
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It would be well, perhaps, for the good of the game hereabouts to muzzle this
fresh young person, for if he keeps on telling people in the columns of the
paper he misrepresents every time the "Giants" get beaten the umpire robbed
them of the game, he will some day find out that a grand rumpus will result, and
he will be hunting for some place to hide.
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If the "Giants" can't whip Harry Wright's juveniles (Philadelphia--ed.), what
are we to expect when they get a few hundred miles from home.