1959 Kansas City Athletics

66-88 • 0.429 Win% • 7th in AL

📊 Season Record

66 Wins
88 Losses
0.429 Win %
7th Rank
681 R 760 RA
Diff -79

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⚡ Quick Stats

681 Runs Scored
760 Runs Allowed
-79 Run Diff
968K Attendance

📈 vs. 1959 AL Average

Batting Avg .262 4% above the 1959 league average (.253)
OBP .324 1% above the 1959 league average (.321)
SLG .329 1% below the 1959 league average (.331)
Team ERA 4.35 13% worse than the 1959 league average (3.86)
Runs Scored 681 1% above the 1959 league average (674 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumMunicipal Stadium I
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Home Games 77
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Total Attendance 968,724
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Avg per Game 12,580

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Russ Snyder 0.313 2 Bill Tuttle 0.300 3 Bud Daley 0.295 4 Whitey Herzog 0.293 5 Hal Smith 0.288

Home Runs

1 Bob Cerv 20 2 Roger Maris 16 3 Dick Williams 16 4 Kent Hadley 10 5 Bill Tuttle 7

RBI

1 Bob Cerv 87 2 Dick Williams 75 3 Roger Maris 72 4 Bill Tuttle 43 5 Kent Hadley 39
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Dick Williams 130 488 72 130 0 0 16 75 28 60 4 0.266
Bob Cerv 125 463 61 132 0 0 20 87 35 87 3 0.285
Bill Tuttle 126 463 74 139 0 0 7 43 48 38 10 0.300
Roger Maris 122 433 69 118 0 0 16 72 58 53 2 0.273
Jerry Lumpe 108 403 47 98 0 0 3 28 41 32 2 0.243
Joe DeMaestri 118 352 31 86 0 0 6 34 28 65 1 0.244
Frank House 98 347 32 82 0 0 1 30 20 23 0 0.236
Hal Smith 108 292 36 84 0 0 5 31 34 39 0 0.288
Kent Hadley 113 288 40 73 0 0 10 39 24 74 1 0.253
Russ Snyder 73 243 41 76 0 0 3 21 19 29 6 0.313
Wayne Terwilliger 74 180 27 48 0 0 2 18 19 31 2 0.267
Harry Chiti 55 162 20 44 0 0 5 25 17 26 0 0.272
Hector Lopez 35 135 22 38 0 0 6 24 8 23 1 0.281
Ray Boone 61 132 19 36 0 0 2 12 27 17 1 0.273
Whitey Herzog 38 123 25 36 0 0 1 9 34 23 1 0.293
Preston Ward 58 109 8 27 0 0 2 19 7 12 0 0.248
Zeke Bella 47 82 10 17 0 0 1 9 9 14 0 0.207
Bud Daley 39 78 5 23 0 0 0 13 2 11 0 0.295
Ned Garver 32 71 9 20 0 0 2 9 4 7 0 0.282
Lou Klimchock 17 66 10 18 0 0 4 13 1 6 0 0.273
Ray Jablonski 25 65 4 17 0 0 2 8 3 11 0 0.262
Ray Herbert 37 57 5 12 0 0 1 5 3 9 0 0.211
Johnny Kucks 33 47 4 4 0 0 0 0 3 22 0 0.085
Bob Grim 40 32 2 3 0 0 1 5 2 17 0 0.094
Rip Coleman 29 25 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0.080
Joe Morgan 20 21 2 4 0 0 0 3 3 7 0 0.190
John Tsitouris 24 20 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 0.150
Murry Dickson 38 17 1 3 0 0 0 2 0 5 0 0.176
Tom Sturdivant 37 17 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0.059
Ralph Terry 9 17 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.176
Harry Simpson 8 14 1 4 0 0 1 2 2 4 0 0.286
Tom Carroll 14 7 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0.143
Al Grunwald 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.000
Ken Johnson 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.000
Howie Reed 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0.000
Russ Meyer 18 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.000
Dick Tomanek 16 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.500
Bob Martyn 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
George Brunet 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Mark Freeman 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Tom Gorman 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Evans Killeen 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Marty Kutyna 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Bud Daley 3.16 2 Ned Garver 3.71 3 Johnny Kucks 3.87 4 Bob Grim 4.09 5 Rip Coleman 4.56

Wins

1 Bud Daley 16 2 Ray Herbert 11 3 Ned Garver 10 4 Johnny Kucks 8 5 Bob Grim 6

Strikeouts

1 Bud Daley 125 2 Ray Herbert 99 3 Bob Grim 65 4 Ned Garver 61 5 Tom Sturdivant 57
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Bud Daley 16 13 3.16 39 29 1 216.1 62 125
Ned Garver 10 13 3.71 32 30 1 201.1 42 61
Ray Herbert 11 11 4.85 37 26 1 183.2 62 99
Johnny Kucks 8 11 3.87 33 23 1 151.1 42 51
Bob Grim 6 10 4.09 40 9 4 125.1 57 65
John Tsitouris 4 3 4.97 24 10 0 83.1 35 50
Rip Coleman 2 10 4.56 29 11 2 81.0 34 54
Tom Sturdivant 2 6 4.65 36 3 5 71.2 34 57
Murry Dickson 2 1 4.94 38 0 0 71.0 27 36
Ralph Terry 2 4 5.24 9 7 0 46.1 19 35
Russ Meyer 1 0 4.50 18 0 1 24.0 11 10
Howie Reed 0 3 7.40 6 3 0 20.2 10 11
Dick Tomanek 0 1 6.53 16 0 2 20.2 12 13
Tom Gorman 1 0 7.08 17 0 1 20.1 14 9
Al Grunwald 0 1 7.94 6 1 1 11.1 11 9
Ken Johnson 1 1 4.09 2 2 0 11.0 5 8
Marty Kutyna 0 0 0.00 4 0 1 7.1 1 1
Evans Killeen 0 0 4.76 4 0 0 5.2 4 1
George Brunet 0 0 11.57 2 0 0 4.2 7 7
Mark Freeman 0 0 9.82 3 0 0 3.2 3 1

👥 Roster (43)

Zeke Bella Ray Boone George Brunet Tom Carroll Bob Cerv Harry Chiti Rip Coleman Bud Daley Joe DeMaestri Murry Dickson Mark Freeman Ned Garver +31 more

43 players

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