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1959 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1959
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City
record
league_place	3rd
owners	Dan Topping and Del Webb
general_managers	George Weiss
managers	Casey Stengel
television	WPIX
(Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto)
radio	WMGM
(Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto)

(Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto) (Mel Allen, Red Barber, Phil Rizzuto) |}}

The 1959 New York Yankees season was the 57th season for the team. The team finished in third place in the American League with a record of 79–75, 15 games behind the Chicago White Sox. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.

This was the only season between 1955 and 1964 in which the Yankees failed to win the American League pennant.

Offseason

Prior to 1959 season: Elvio Jiménez was signed as an amateur free agent by the Yankees.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

April 13, 1959: Bobby Del Greco was purchased from the Yankees by the Philadelphia Phillies.
May 26, 1959: Johnny Kucks, Tom Sturdivant, and Jerry Lumpe were traded by the Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics for Ralph Terry and Héctor López.
September 11, 1959: Enos Slaughter was selected off waivers from the Yankees by the Milwaukee Braves.

Roster

1959 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Yogi Berra	131	472	134	.284	19	69
1B	Bill Skowron	74	282	84	.298	15	59
2B	Bobby Richardson	134	469	141	.301	2	33
SS	Tony Kubek	132	512	143	.279	6	51
3B	Héctor López	112	406	115	.283	16	69
LF	Norm Siebern	120	380	103	.271	11	53
CF	Mickey Mantle	144	541	154	.285	31	75
RF	Hank Bauer	114	341	81	.238	9	39

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Elston Howard	125	443	121	.273	18	73
Gil McDougald	127	434	109	.251	4	34
Marv Throneberry	80	192	46	.240	8	22
Clete Boyer	47	114	20	.175	0	3
Andy Carey	41	101	26	.257	3	9
Enos Slaughter	74	99	17	.172	6	21
Johnny Blanchard	49	59	10	.169	2	4
Jerry Lumpe	18	45	10	.222	0	2
Fritz Brickell	18	39	10	.256	1	4
Jim Pisoni	17	17	3	.176	0	1
Ken Hunt	6	12	4	.333	0	1
Gordie Windhorn	7	11	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
Whitey Ford	35	204.0	16	10	3.04	114
Art Ditmar	38	202.0	13	9	2.90	96
Bob Turley	33	154.1	8	11	4.32	111
Ralph Terry	24	127.1	3	7	3.39	55
Don Larsen	25	124.2	6	7	4.33	69
Mark Freeman	1	7.0	0	0	2.57	4

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
Duke Maas	38	138.0	14	8	4.43	67
Eli Grba	19	50.1	2	5	6.44	23
Jim Bronstad	16	29.1	0	3	5.22	14
	7	25.1	0	2	4.97	16
John Gabler	3	19.1	1	1	2.79	11

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
Ryne Duren	41	3	6	14	1.88	96
Jim Coates	37	6	1	3	2.87	64
Bobby Shantz	33	7	3	3	2.38	66
	15	0	1	0	3.51	20
	9	0	1	0	8.64	9
Zach Monroe	3	0	0	0	5.40	1

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Modesto, St. Petersburg

Notes

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jimenel01.shtml Elvio Jiménez] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/d/delgrbo01.shtml Bobby Del Greco] 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/s/slaugen01.shtml Enos Slaughter] at ''Baseball-Reference''
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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