1959 Kansas City Athletics season
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
1959 Kansas City Athletics season
| 1959 Kansas City Athletics |
||
| Major league affiliations | ||
|
||
| Location | ||
|
||
| 1959 Information | ||
| Owner(s) | Arnold Johnson | |
| General manager(s) | Parke Carroll | |
| Manager(s) | Harry Craft | |
| Local television | WDAF-TV | |
| Local radio | WDAF (Merle Harmon, Bill Grigsby) |
|
| Previous season Next season | ||
The 1959 Kansas City Athletics season was the fifth for the franchise in Kansas City, and its 59th overall. It involved the A's finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 66 wins and 88 losses, 28 games behind the AL Champion Chicago White Sox.
|
Contents
|
Offseason
- October 2, 1958: Chico Carrasquel was traded by the Athletics to the Baltimore Orioles for Dick Williams.[1]
Regular season
Season standings
| American League | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago White Sox | 94 | 60 | .610 | -- |
| Cleveland Indians | 89 | 65 | .578 | 5 |
| New York Yankees | 79 | 75 | .513 | 15 |
| Detroit Tigers | 76 | 78 | .494 | 18 |
| Boston Red Sox | 75 | 79 | .487 | 19 |
| Baltimore Orioles | 74 | 80 | .481 | 20 |
| Kansas City Athletics | 66 | 88 | .429 | 28 |
| Washington Senators | 63 | 91 | .409 | 31 |
Notable transactions
- May 2, 1959: Harry Simpson was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago White Sox for Ray Boone.[2]
- May 26, 1959: Ralph Terry and Héctor López were traded by the Athletics to the New York Yankees for Johnny Kucks, Tom Sturdivant, and Jerry Lumpe.[3]
- August 20, 1959: Ray Boone was selected off waivers from the Athletics by the Milwaukee Braves.[2]
- August 20, 1959: Ray Jablonski was selected off waivers by the Athletics from the St. Louis Cardinals.[4]
The Ralph Terry trade
During the Arnold Johnson ownership, any good young players on the Athletics were invariably traded by general manager Parke Carroll to the Yankees for aging veterans and cash. The cash was used to pay the bills, with the veterans perhaps having star appeal that could improve attendance. One of the great controversies was the Ralph Terry trade. In May 1959, the Yankees sent Jerry Lumpe and two veteran pitchers to the Athletics for Ralph Terry.[3] Once "home," Terry became a 20-game winner for New York.
The Yankees had brought the 20-year-old Terry to the majors in 1956, but gave him limited playing time. In June 1957, they traded him to the A's in an eight-player deal. After getting nearly two years of experience facing A.L. batters, Terry was sent back to New York. Other clubs charged that the A’s were little more than a Yankee farm team at the major league level, citing Johnson's pre-existing cozy relationship with Yankees owners Dan Topping and Del Webb. A detailed account of this period is The Kansas City A's and The Wrong Half of the Yankees, by Jeff Katz, published by Maple Street Press.
Roster
| 1959 Kansas City Athletics | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roster | |||||||||
Pitchers
|
Catchers
Infielders
|
Outfielders
Other batters
|
Manager
Coaches
|
||||||
Player stats
| = Indicates team leader |
Batting
Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Avg. | Player | G | AB | R | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Frank House | 98 | 347 | 32 | 82 | .236 | 1 | 30 |
| 1B | Kent Hadley | 113 | 288 | 40 | 73 | .253 | 10 | 39 |
| 2B | Jerry Lumpe | 108 | 403 | 47 | 98 | .243 | 3 | 28 |
| 3B | Dick Williams | 130 | 488 | 72 | 130 | .266 | 16 | 75 |
| SS | Joe DeMaestri | 118 | 352 | 31 | 86 | .244 | 6 | 34 |
| LF | Bob Cerv | 125 | 463 | 61 | 132 | .285 | 20 | 87 |
| CF | Bill Tuttle | 126 | 463 | 74 | 139 | .300 | 7 | 43 |
| RF | Roger Maris | 122 | 433 | 69 | 118 | .273 | 16 | 72 |
Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
| Player | G | AB | R | H | Avg. | HR | RBI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hal Smith | 108 | 292 | 36 | 84 | .288 | 5 | 31 |
| Wayne Terwilliger | 74 | 180 | 27 | 48 | .267 | 2 | 18 |
| Harry Chiti | 55 | 162 | 20 | 44 | .272 | 5 | 25 |
| Héctor López | 35 | 135 | 22 | 38 | .281 | 6 | 24 |
| Ray Boone | 61 | 132 | 19 | 36 | .273 | 2 | 12 |
| Whitey Herzog | 38 | 123 | 25 | 36 | .293 | 1 | 9 |
| Preston Ward | 58 | 109 | 8 | 27 | .248 | 2 | 19 |
| Harry Simpson | 8 | 14 | 1 | 4 | .286 | 1 | 2 |
| Tom Carroll | 14 | 7 | 1 | .143 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bud Daley | 39 | 216.1 | 16 | 13 | 3.16 | 125 |
| Ned Garver | 32 | 201 | 10 | 13 | 3.71 | 61 |
| Johnny Kucks | 33 | 151.1 | 8 | 11 | 3.87 | 51 |
| Ralph Terry | 9 | 46.1 | 2 | 4 | 5.24 | 35 |
Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Grim | 40 | 125.1 | 6 | 10 | 4.09 | 65 |
| John Tsitouris | 24 | 83.1 | 4 | 3 | 4.97 | 50 |
| Rip Coleman | 29 | 81 | 2 | 10 | 4.56 | 54 |
Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
| Player | G | W | L | SV | ERA | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Sturdivant | 36 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4.65 | 57 |
| Tom Gorman | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7.08 | 9 |
| Marty Kutyna | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 1 |
| George Brunet | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.57 | 7 |
Awards and honors
- All-Star Game
- Roger Maris appeared in his first All-Star Game[6]
Farm system
See also: Minor league baseball
| Level | Team | League | Manager |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAA | Portland Beavers | Pacific Coast League | Tommy Heath |
| AA | Shreveport Sports | Southern Association | Les Peden |
| A | Albany Senators | Eastern League | Al Evans |
| B | Sioux City Soos | Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League | Bill Capps |
| C | Pocatello Athletics | Pioneer League | Tommy Giordano |
| D | Grand Island Athletics | Nebraska State League | Art Mazmanian |
| D | Olean Athletics | New York-Penn League | Bill Robertson |
| D | Plainview Athletics | Sophomore League | Bobby Hofman |
References
- ^ Chico Carrasquel page at Baseball Reference
- ^ a b Ray Boone page at Baseball Reference
- ^ a b Ralph Terry page at Baseball Reference
- ^ Ray Jablonski page at Baseball Reference
- ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCA/1959.shtml
- ^ Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero, p. 113, Tom Clavin and Danny Peary, Touchstone Books, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4165-8928-0
- ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007
External links
- 1959 Kansas City Athletics team page at Baseball Reference
- 1959 Kansas City Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com
|
|||||||||||
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Wikipedia on Answers.com
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article 1959 Kansas City Athletics season.
Read more