For years, Yankees-Giants was the original Subway Series. The Yankees played in Washington Heights and then the Bronx, while the Giants owned Harlem’s Polo Grounds. Forget the Dodgers. Flatbush, Brooklyn might as well have been another country. For context, the Giants and Yankees played each other in the World Series five times before Brooklyn joined the rivalry.
Cue the Giants (and Dodgers) moving to California in 1958 and New York baseball lost a piece of its soul. The 1962 World Series and a 2002 Barry Bonds moonshot aside, the Yankees and San Francisco Giants rarely play one another.