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The San Francisco Giants proved to be the most successful National League team from 1900 forward, with 71 winning sea-sons, 17 pennants, and four additional division titles. Christy Mathewson (646 Runs/162), Mel Ott (1,075 Hits Contribution), Carl Hubbell (484 Runs/162), and Willie Mays (1,579 Hits Contribution) stand tall among the San Francisco Giants stars achieving this success, due to their sustained, superior performance. Barry Bonds has joined that upper tier of Giants talent, even though he produced 489 of his career-to-date 1,290 Hits Contribution with Pittsburgh. Mathewson starred on five pennant-winning teams in the first two decades of the century, with support from Joe McGinnity, Roger Bresnahan, Larry Doyle, and Mike Donlin. Ott and Hubbell generated their best years in the 1920s and 1930s, as did Frank Frisch, Bill Terry, Dave Ban-croft, and Dick Bartell. Mays led the team in the 1950s and 1960s; he received help from Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, and Juan Marichal. Barry Bonds joined Will Clark and Matt Williams on the 1993 Giants; these three stars led the Giants to its last 100-win season.

Profiled Giants Players:

Willie Mays: Mays, baseball's most complete player, excelled at running, fielding, and hitting. Mays was the National League's best base stealer in the 1950s, he stole 338 bases, and he achieved a 77 percent theft success rate in his career. Mays won 12 consecutive Gold Glove awards, and he would have won more if the award had existed before 1957. Mays hit .302 with 660 home runs in his career, while racking up 3,283 hits and 1,464 walks in 12,389 total at bats. Adjusted for a 0.5 percent career hitter's inflation, Mays hit .301 with 674 home runs, for a 942 Wtd. Pro¬duction. Add 20 speed-related points and 58 Fielding Fac¬tor points, and Mays earned a 1,019 Total Factor, ranking him second behind Barry Bonds in league rate of success for outfielders, and for players of any position. His 1,579 Hits Contribution ranks first in league volume of success for outfielders, and second to Honus Wagner among all National League players.

Barry Bonds: If anyone could approximate Willie Mays' excellence in all phases of the game, it would be Bonds. Bonds played his first seven seasons in Pittsburgh, and he demonstrated a superb glove and incredible speed, once stealing 52 bases in 65 attempts. In his last three seasons in Pittsburgh, he also began to unleash his home run swing. He hit even more home runs playing for the Giants, while continuing to steal bases. And Bonds he does one thing very well that Mays was only average at -drawing an ever increasing number of walks to give himself a high on-base percentage, and a higher Production than Mays could achieve.