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1960 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1960
misc	American League champions
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	Bronx, New York
record
league_place	1st
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 1960 New York Yankees season was the 58th season for the team. The team finished with a record of 97–57, winning its 25th pennant, finishing 8 games ahead of the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, they were defeated by the Pittsburgh Pirates in seven games.

Offseason

December 11, 1959: Don Larsen, Hank Bauer, Norm Siebern, and Marv Throneberry were traded by the Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics for Roger Maris, Joe DeMaestri and Kent Hadley.
Prior to 1960 season: Jesse Gonder was acquired by the Yankees from the Cincinnati Reds.

Regular season

Elston Howard took over as the Yankees' everyday catcher, while Yogi Berra split time between the outfield and serving as Howard's backup.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

May 19, 1960: Andy Carey was traded by the Yankees to the Kansas City Athletics for Bob Cerv.

Roster

1960 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

Starters by position

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

Pos	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	107	323	29	79	.245	6	39
1B	146	538	63	166	.309	26	91
2B	150	460	45	116	.252	1	26
3B	124	393	54	95	.242	14	46
SS	147	568	77	155	.273	14	62
LF	131	408	66	116	.284	9	42
CF	153	527	119	145	.275	40	94
RF	136	499	98	141	.283	39	112

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
	120	359	99	.276	15	62
	119	337	87	.258	8	34
	87	216	54	.250	8	28
	53	99	24	.242	4	14
	55	64	13	.203	4	11
	26	41	15	.366	3	10
	49	35	8	.229	0	2
	25	22	6	.273	0	1
	20	9	1	.111	0	1
	7	7	2	.286	1	3
	8	5	0	.000	0	0
	6	4	2	.500	0	0
	4	3	1	.333	0	1
Billy Shantz	1	0	0	----	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
34	200.0	15	9	3.06	65
33	192.2	12	9	3.08	85
34	173.1	9	3	3.27	87
35	149.1	13	3	4.28	73
10	47.0	3	5	4.79	14

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
35	166.2	10	8	3.40	92
24	80.2	6	4	3.68	32
11	60.0	3	1	2.25	36
21	52.0	3	3	4.15	19

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
42	5	4	11	2.79	54
42	3	4	9	4.96	67
35	5	1	4	4.09	28
29	5	1	7	2.88	29
28	5	1	2	4.36	29
4	0	1	0	6.23	2

1960 World Series

Main article: 1960 World Series

NL Pittsburgh Pirates (4) vs. AL New York Yankees (3)

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	Yankees – 4, Pirates – 6	October 5	Forbes Field	36,676
2	Yankees – 16, Pirates – 3	October 6	Forbes Field	37,308
3	Pirates – 0, Yankees – 10	October 8	Yankee Stadium	70,001
4	Pirates – 3, Yankees – 2	October 9	Yankee Stadium	67,812
5	Pirates – 5, Yankees – 2	October 10	Yankee Stadium	62,753
6	Yankees – 12, Pirates – 0	October 12	Forbes Field	38,580
7	Yankees – 9, Pirates – 10	October 13	Forbes Field	36,683

Awards and honors

Roger Maris, American League MVP
Bobby Richardson, World Series MVP

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Greensboro

Notes

References

1960 New York Yankees at Baseball Reference
1960 World Series
1960 New York Yankees at Baseball Almanac

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marisro01.shtml Roger Maris] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gondeje01.shtml Jesse Gonder] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cervbo01.shtml Bob Cerv] 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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