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1959 Kansas City Athletics season

Field	Value
name	Kansas City Athletics
season	1959
image	Kansas City Athletics Cap Logo (1955 to 1959).svg
league	American League
ballpark	Municipal Stadium
city	Kansas City, Missouri
record
league_place	7th
owners	Arnold Johnson
general_managers	Parke Carroll
managers	Harry Craft
television	WDAF-TV
radio	WDAF
(Merle Harmon, Bill Grigsby)

(Merle Harmon, Bill Grigsby) |}} 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 seventh in the American League with a record of 66 wins and 88 losses, 28 games behind the AL Champion Chicago White Sox.

Offseason

October 2, 1958: Chico Carrasquel was traded by the Athletics to the Baltimore Orioles for Dick Williams.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

May 2, 1959: Harry Simpson was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago White Sox for Ray Boone.
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.
August 20, 1959: Ray Boone was selected off waivers from the Athletics by the Milwaukee Braves.
August 20, 1959: Ray Jablonski was selected off waivers by the Athletics from the St. Louis Cardinals.

Roster

1959 Kansas City Athletics
Roster
Pitchers

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.	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	98	347	32	82	.236	1	30
1B	113	288	40	73	.253	10	39
2B	108	403	47	98	.243	3	28
3B	130	488	72	130	.266	16	75
SS	118	352	31	86	.244	6	34
LF	125	463	61	132	.285	20	87
CF	126	463	74	139	.300	7	43
RF	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
	108	292	36	84	.288	5	31
Russ Snyder	73	243	41	76	.313	3	21
	74	180	27	48	.267	2	18
	55	162	20	44	.272	5	25
	35	135	22	38	.281	6	24
	61	132	19	36	.273	2	12
	38	123	25	36	.293	1	9
	58	109	8	27	.248	2	19
Zeke Bella	47	82	10	17	.207	1	9
Lou Klimchock	17	66	10	18	.273	4	13
Ray Jablonski	25	65	4	17	.262	2	8
Joe Morgan	20	21	2	4	.190	0	3
	8	14	1	4	.286	1	2
	14	7	1	1	.143	0	1
Bob Martyn	1	1	0	0	.000	0	0

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
	39	216.1	16	13	3.16	125
	32	201.0	10	13	3.71	61
Ray Herbert	37	183.2	11	11	4.85	99
	33	151.1	8	11	3.87	51
	9	46.1	2	4	5.24	35
Ken Johnson	2	11.0	1	1	4.09	8

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
	40	125.1	6	10	4.09	65
	24	83.1	4	3	4.97	50
	29	81.0	2	10	4.56	54
Howie Reed	6	20.2	0	3	7.40	11
Al Grunwald	6	11.1	0	1	7.94	9

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
	36	2	6	5	4.65	57
Murry Dickson	38	2	1	0	4.94	36
Russ Meyer	18	1	0	1	4.50	10
	17	1	0	1	7.08	9
Dick Tomanek	16	0	1	2	6.53	13
	4	0	0	1	0.00	1
Evans Killeen	4	0	0	0	4.76	1
Mark Freeman	3	0	0	0	9.82	1
	2	0	0	0	11.57	7

Awards and honors

All-Star Game
- Roger Maris appeared in his first All-Star Game

Farm system

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/carrach01.shtml Chico Carrasquel page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boonera01.shtml Ray Boone page at Baseball Reference]
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19590526&id=_zoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7uQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3073,4227926&hl=en K.C. A's trade two to Yankees]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jablora01.shtml Ray Jablonski page at Baseball Reference]
"1959 Kansas City Athletics Statistics".
''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, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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