The Ottawa Giants were a professional minor-league baseball team based in

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, Canada that operated in 1951 after the relocation of an existing Triple-A team, the

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. It played at

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in Ottawa and finished with a 62–88 record, in seventh place in the eight-team

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and 31 games in arrears of the regular season and playoff champion

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. The Ottawa Giants drew 117,411 fans through the

turnstiles, also seventh in the league. lansdowne park 1950

History

As radio and television broadcasts of New York City area baseball teams increased, Jersey City's attendance plunged from 337,000 in 1947 to 63,000 in 1950. Ottawa had most recently hosted the ''Nationals'' and the ''Senators'' of the Class C

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from 1947–50, leading that league in attendance for three of its four seasons and making the playoffs each year. The Jersey City team was owned by the

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, who held the exclusive rights to baseball at

, engineered a deal to have the New Yorkers move their Jersey City team to Ottawa for the 1951 season. The Ottawa Giants and the

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of the

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were the two Triple-A farm clubs of the

in 1951. However, the parent club decided to scale back and only operate one Triple-A club in 1952. After one season, the Ottawa team was sold to the

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, who operated the team as the

Ottawa Athletics The Ottawa Athletics (also known as the Ottawa A's) were a professional minor-league baseball team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, that operated from 1952 to 1954. The team played at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa and was a member of the Triple-A Inte ...

from 1952 to 1954.

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*1B

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*3B

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*OF

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*1B/OF Fred Gerken *P

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*P George Heller *2B

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*OF John Metkovich *2B

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*P Ed Wright

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