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Troy, N.Y., was the birthplace of the San Francisco Giants. When Troy resigned from the National League in 1882, most of its players went to the N.Y. Gothams, which were renamed The Giants in 1883 because of the "very tall Troy players" and eventually moved to San Francisco in 1958.
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