1959 Kansas City Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 66-88
Finished 7th in the AL
Attendance: 968,724, Avg. 13,091
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium I
Manager: Harry Craft (66-88)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1959 Kansas City Athletics Roster
1959 Kansas City Athletics Results

The Kansas City Athletics of the American League ended the 1959 season with a record of 66 wins and 88 losses, finishing seventh in the AL. Harry Craft coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Bud Daley	16	13	.552	3.16	39	29	5	12	2	1	216.3	212	90	76	24	62	2	125	11	0	7	911
Ray Herbert	11	11	.500	4.85	37	26	3	10	2	1	183.7	196	108	99	24	62	4	99	1	0	2	795
Ned Garver	10	13	.435	3.71	32	30	1	9	2	1	201.3	214	94	83	22	42	0	61	3	0	4	848
Johnny Kucks	8	11	.421	3.87	33	23	6	6	1	1	151.3	163	76	65	10	42	0	51	12	0	0	649
Bob Grim	6	10	.375	4.09	40	9	16	3	1	4	125.3	124	69	57	10	57	6	65	3	0	4	548
John Tsitouris	4	3	.571	4.97	24	10	4	0	0	0	83.3	90	52	46	3	35	3	50	3	1	4	377
Murry Dickson	2	1	.667	4.94	38	0	12	0	0	0	71.0	85	46	39	9	27	1	36	0	0	1	326
Ralph Terry	2	4	.333	5.24	9	7	1	2	0	0	46.3	56	29	27	9	19	1	35	1	0	1	205
Tom Sturdivant	2	6	.250	4.65	36	3	16	0	0	5	71.7	70	45	37	9	34	4	57	6	0	3	323
Rip Coleman	2	10	.167	4.56	29	11	6	2	0	2	81.0	85	46	41	8	34	0	54	1	0	3	357
Russ Meyer	1	0	1.000	4.50	18	0	7	0	0	1	24.0	24	12	12	3	11	0	10	1	0	2	107
Tom Gorman	1	0	1.000	7.08	17	0	9	0	0	1	20.3	24	21	16	3	14	0	9	1	0	1	101
Ken Johnson	1	1	.500	4.09	2	2	0	0	0	0	11.0	11	6	5	2	5	0	8	0	0	0	47
Marty Kutyna	0	0		0.00	4	0	4	0	0	1	7.3	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	30
Evans Killeen	0	0		4.76	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.7	4	3	3	0	4	0	1	0	0	1	23
Mark Freeman	0	0		9.82	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.7	6	6	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	20
George Brunet	0	0		11.57	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.7	10	9	6	2	7	1	7	1	1	0	32
Dick Tomanek	0	1	.000	6.53	16	0	12	0	0	2	20.7	27	15	15	6	12	1	13	2	1	5	104
Al Grunwald	0	1	.000	7.94	6	1	3	0	0	1	11.3	18	14	10	1	11	1	9	0	0	0	62
Howie Reed	0	3	.000	7.40	6	3	2	0	0	0	20.7	26	19	17	3	10	0	11	0	0	3	97
Totals	66	88	.429	4.35	395	154	110	44	8	21	1360.7	1452	760	658	148	492	24	703	46	3	41	5962

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Bill Tuttle	126	521	463	74	139	19	6	7	43	10	6	48	38	.300	.369	.413	.782	191	12	4	4	2	2
Bob Cerv	125	513	463	61	132	22	4	20	87	3	2	35	87	.285	.332	.479	.812	222	13	3	1	11	5
Dick Williams	130	538	488	72	130	33	1	16	75	4	1	28	60	.266	.309	.436	.746	213	13	5	11	6	1
Roger Maris	122	498	433	69	118	21	7	16	72	2	1	58	53	.273	.359	.464	.824	201	4	3	0	4	5
Jerry Lumpe	108	451	403	47	98	11	5	3	28	2	1	41	32	.243	.313	.318	.631	128	10	0	7	0	1
Joe DeMaestri	118	387	352	31	86	16	5	6	34	1	0	28	65	.244	.305	.369	.674	130	12	4	0	3	8
Hal Smith	108	332	292	36	84	12	0	5	31	0	3	34	39	.288	.367	.380	.747	111	4	3	2	1	0
Frank House	98	371	347	32	82	14	3	1	30	0	3	20	23	.236	.282	.303	.584	105	10	2	2	0	6
Russ Snyder	73	267	243	41	76	13	2	3	21	6	2	19	29	.313	.367	.420	.787	102	4	2	3	0	0
Kent Hadley	113	318	288	40	73	11	1	10	39	1	2	24	74	.253	.310	.403	.713	116	6	1	2	3	0
Wayne Terwilliger	74	204	180	27	48	11	0	2	18	2	2	19	31	.267	.335	.361	.696	65	2	0	4	1	0
Harry Chiti	55	180	162	20	44	11	1	5	25	0	1	17	26	.272	.344	.444	.789	72	9	1	0	0	1
Hector Lopez	35	146	135	22	38	10	3	6	24	1	0	8	23	.281	.324	.533	.857	72	1	1	1	1	0
Whitey Herzog	38	158	123	25	36	7	1	1	9	1	0	34	23	.293	.446	.390	.836	48	2	0	1	0	0
Ray Boone	61	161	132	19	36	6	0	2	12	1	0	27	17	.273	.396	.364	.760	48	4	0	2	0	2
Preston Ward	58	119	109	8	27	4	1	2	19	0	0	7	12	.248	.286	.358	.644	39	3	0	0	3	1
Bud Daley	39	87	78	5	23	1	0	0	13	0	0	2	11	.295	.329	.308	.637	24	1	2	5	0	0
Ned Garver	32	80	71	9	20	2	1	2	9	0	0	4	7	.282	.316	.423	.738	30	2	0	4	1	0
Lou Klimchock	17	68	66	10	18	1	0	4	13	0	0	1	6	.273	.284	.470	.753	31	2	0	1	0	0
Ray Jablonski	25	68	65	4	17	1	0	2	8	0	0	3	11	.262	.294	.369	.663	24	0	0	0	0	0
Zeke Bella	47	93	82	10	17	2	1	1	9	0	0	9	14	.207	.293	.293	.586	24	5	1	1	0	0
Ray Herbert	37	63	57	5	12	2	0	1	5	0	0	3	9	.211	.250	.298	.548	17	1	0	3	0	0
Harry Simpson	8	18	14	1	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	4	.286	.389	.500	.889	7	0	1	0	1	0
Joe Morgan	20	24	21	2	4	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	7	.190	.292	.286	.577	6	1	0	0	0	0
Johnny Kucks	33	53	47	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	22	.085	.140	.106	.246	5	1	0	3	0	0
Ralph Terry	9	18	17	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.176	.176	.176	.353	3	1	0	1	0	0
Murry Dickson	38	17	17	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.176	.176	.176	.353	3	0	0	0	0	0
John Tsitouris	24	24	20	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.150	.190	.150	.340	3	1	0	3	0	0
Bob Grim	40	41	32	2	3	0	0	1	5	0	0	2	17	.094	.143	.188	.330	6	0	0	6	1	0
Rip Coleman	29	26	25	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.080	.080	.080	.160	2	0	0	1	0	0
Dick Tomanek	16	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Carroll	14	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	37	18	17	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.059	.059	.059	.118	1	0	0	1	0	0
Ken Johnson	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Howie Reed	6	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Russ Meyer	18	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Martyn	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Grunwald	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Kutyna	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Evans Killeen	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Gorman	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Freeman	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1972	5885	5264	681	1383	231	43	117	637	34	24	481	780	.263	.326	.390	.716	2051	124	33	69	38	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Kent Hadley	1B	95	71	661.3	656	42	8	66	.989	9.499	7.347	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	1B	38	30	253.0	275	23	5	20	.983	1.601	7.842	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	1B	32	28	249.0	233	16	2	32	.992	9.000	7.781	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	1B	22	20	155.7	161	7	3	14	.982	9.713	7.636	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	1B	4	4	31.0	30	2	0	2	1.000	9.290	8.000	0	0	0	0
Whitey Herzog	1B	1	1	9.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Zeke Bella	1B	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	2B	61	54	471.0	133	158	4	41	.986	5.561	4.770	0	0	0	0
Wayne Terwilliger	2B	63	51	462.0	144	166	9	42	.972	6.039	4.921	0	0	0	0
Hector Lopez	2B	33	33	284.3	81	71	11	15	.933	4.811	4.606	0	0	0	0
Lou Klimchock	2B	16	16	139.7	34	41	4	11	.949	4.833	4.688	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	2B	3	0	4.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.000	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	3B	80	77	651.0	83	164	11	10	.957	3.415	3.088	0	0	0	0
Hal Smith	3B	77	60	553.0	85	119	10	10	.953	3.320	2.649	0	0	0	0
Ray Jablonski	3B	17	13	116.0	13	23	2	3	.947	2.793	2.118	0	0	0	0
Joe Morgan	3B	2	2	13.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.500	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	3B	4	1	12.0	2	1	1	0	.750	2.250	.750	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	3B	3	1	12.0	2	6	0	0	1.000	6.000	2.667	0	0	0	0
Tom Carroll	3B	3	0	3.0	0	1	1	0	.500	3.000	.333	0	0	0	0
Wayne Terwilliger	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Frank House	C	95	92	808.7	447	43	9	7	.982	5.453	5.158	7	25	33	16	32.7
Harry Chiti	C	47	44	383.3	228	25	3	5	.988	5.940	5.383	5	9	12	11	47.8
Hal Smith	C	22	18	169.0	125	10	5	5	.964	7.189	6.136	3	7	5	4	44.4
Bob Cerv	OF	119	119	1009.7	231	8	5	2	.980	2.130	2.008	0	0	0	0
Bill Tuttle	OF	121	111	1000.3	294	17	5	3	.984	2.798	2.570	0	0	0	0
Roger Maris	OF	117	110	994.7	231	7	6	4	.975	2.153	2.034	0	0	0	0
Russ Snyder	OF	64	55	501.7	127	9	2	2	.986	2.440	2.125	0	0	0	0
Whitey Herzog	OF	34	32	271.0	77	2	3	1	.963	2.624	2.324	0	0	0	0
Dick Williams	OF	23	15	155.7	31	0	0	0	1.000	1.792	1.348	0	0	0	0
Zeke Bella	OF	25	19	142.0	22	2	0	1	1.000	1.521	.960	0	0	0	0
Preston Ward	OF	1	1	8.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bud Daley	P	39	29	216.3	10	35	2	2	.957	1.872	1.154	0	0	0	0
Ned Garver	P	32	30	201.3	10	35	1	3	.978	2.012	1.406	0	0	0	0
Ray Herbert	P	37	26	184.7	13	23	1	4	.973	1.755	.973	0	0	0	0
Johnny Kucks	P	33	23	151.0	10	31	1	4	.976	2.444	1.242	0	0	0	0
Bob Grim	P	40	9	125.3	7	13	1	1	.952	1.436	.500	0	0	0	0
John Tsitouris	P	24	10	83.0	3	13	2	0	.889	1.735	.667	0	0	0	0
Rip Coleman	P	29	11	81.0	1	14	2	2	.882	1.667	.517	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	P	36	3	71.7	6	17	3	1	.885	2.888	.639	0	0	0	0
Murry Dickson	P	38	0	71.0	1	13	1	0	.933	1.775	.368	0	0	0	0
Ralph Terry	P	9	7	46.3	4	8	1	4	.923	2.331	1.333	0	0	0	0
Russ Meyer	P	18	0	24.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.500	.222	0	0	0	0
Dick Tomanek	P	16	0	20.7	0	6	0	0	1.000	2.613	.375	0	0	0	0
Howie Reed	P	6	3	20.7	0	2	1	0	.667	.871	.333	0	0	0	0
Tom Gorman	P	17	0	20.3	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Ken Johnson	P	2	2	11.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.455	1.500	0	0	0	0
Al Grunwald	P	6	1	11.0	0	2	1	1	.667	1.636	.333	0	0	0	0
Marty Kutyna	P	4	0	7.3	1	3	0	0	1.000	4.909	1.000	0	0	0	0
Evans Killeen	P	4	0	6.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
George Brunet	P	2	0	4.7	0	4	1	0	.800	7.714	2.000	0	0	0	0
Mark Freeman	P	3	0	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Joe DeMaestri	SS	115	106	905.3	167	320	22	63	.957	4.841	4.235	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	SS	56	47	424.7	85	148	8	39	.967	4.938	4.161	0	0	0	0
Tom Carroll	SS	9	1	25.0	7	10	0	1	1.000	6.120	1.889	0	0	0	0
Wayne Terwilliger	SS	2	0	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.500	0	0	0	0
Totals		1801	1386	12249.0	4086	1669	159	421	.973	4.229	3.195	15	41	50	31	38.3

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