On Oct. 2, 1954, before almost 80,000 fans at Cleveland Stadium, the Indians’ Dale Mitchell popped out against Johnny Antonelli to give the New York Giants their fifth World Series championship. There is no footage of Willie Mays and friends hoisting the commissioner’s trophy in triumph. Back then, there was no such thing.

Baseball did not present its champion with the familiar ring of flags until 1967, and the Giants did not earn it until last November, more than a half-century after they moved to San Francisco. Next week, they will take the trophy to their ancestral home with a public visit to New York.

“It’s our new rock star,” Larry Baer, the Giants’ president, said of the trophy. “It’s our celebrity. It’s the most popular member of our organization right now.”

If so, then Mays, the 79-year-old Hall of Famer, is probably just behind, along with Buster Posey, the cleanup-hitting catcher. Posey will be in Manhattan on Jan. 22 to receive his National League Rookie of the Year award at the New York baseball writers’ dinner, and the Giants will make an event of it.

“Toward the top of our list, after winning, was doing something for our fans in New York,” Baer said. “We’ve got a tremendous number of people who talk about their childhood days following the Giants, and now their dream has been fulfilled with the San Francisco Giants winning.”

On Jan. 21, Baer said, the Giants plan to take the trophy to P.S. 46 in Manhattan, near the site where the Polo Grounds once stood. Mays, who starred there at the beginning of his career, will come along.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the next day, the Giants will display the trophy at the Hilton New York, where fans can have their photograph taken with it. From 3 to 5 p.m., the trophy will visit Finnerty’s in the East Village, which calls itself the largest San Francisco Giants bar in New York.

Baer said he also hoped to meet with members of the New York Giants’ historical society. By now, most of the association’s members have accepted the franchise’s departure after the 1957 season.

“There was a dark cloud when the Giants and the Dodgers left New York,” Baer said. “But I think now, 53 years later, everybody sort of realizes that baseball in California has flourished, baseball in New York has continued to flourish, and we can celebrate the accomplishment on both coasts for a team whose roots are in New York.”

While they are here, Baer said, the Giants ideally would like to stage a stickball game with Mays, who famously played it with fans in the old days. But that might be unrealistic.

“It’s so cold,” Baer said. “It would probably be tough to pull off in mid-January.”