1959 Chicago White Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 94-60
Finished 1st in the AL
Attendance: 1,423,144, Avg. 20,924
Ballpark: Comiskey Park
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to Los Angeles Dodgers 4-2
Manager: Al Lopez (94-60)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1959 Chicago White Sox Roster
1959 Chicago White Sox Results

The Chicago White Sox of the American League ended the 1959 season with a record of 94 wins and 60 losses, finishing first in the AL.

The White Sox conceded 588 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Chicago tallied 669 runs. Sherm Lollar paced the team with 22 home runs, while Al Smith walloped 20 or more as well. Sherm Lollar drove in 84 runs. Nellie Fox led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .306. Early Wynn topped the squad with 22 wins, and Bob Shaw added 15 or more victories as well Bob Shaw earned a 2.69 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Al Lopez coached the team. The 1959 Chicago White Sox won the League Championship Series.

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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
Early Wynn	22	10	.688	3.17	37	37	0	14	5	0	255.7	202	106	90	20	119	5	179	9	0	5	1076
Bob Shaw	18	6	.750	2.69	47	26	12	8	3	3	230.7	217	72	69	15	54	5	89	6	0	3	949
Billy Pierce	14	15	.483	3.62	34	33	0	12	2	0	224.0	217	98	90	26	62	4	114	3	1	2	934
Turk Lown	9	2	.818	2.89	60	0	37	0	0	15	93.3	73	32	30	12	42	4	63	2	1	1	391
Dick Donovan	9	10	.474	3.66	31	29	0	5	1	0	179.7	171	84	73	15	58	3	71	5	0	1	768
Gerry Staley	8	5	.615	2.24	67	0	37	0	0	14	116.3	111	39	29	5	25	9	54	0	0	2	471
Barry Latman	8	5	.615	3.75	37	21	3	5	2	0	156.0	138	71	65	15	72	3	97	4	1	3	675
Ray Moore	3	6	.333	4.12	29	8	2	0	0	0	89.7	86	46	41	10	46	3	49	1	0	1	389
Rudy Arias	2	0	1.000	4.09	34	0	13	0	0	2	44.0	49	23	20	7	20	7	28	1	0	0	200
Joe Stanka	1	0	1.000	3.38	2	0	1	0	0	0	5.3	2	2	2	1	4	1	3	0	0	0	22
Don Rudolph	0	0		0.00	4	0	1	0	0	1	3.0	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	14
Gary Peters	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	7
Claude Raymond	0	0		9.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	5	4	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	19
Ken McBride	0	1	.000	3.18	11	2	4	0	0	1	22.7	20	11	8	1	17	0	12	0	0	2	105
Totals	94	60	.610	3.29	398	156	112	44	13	36	1425.3	1297	588	521	129	525	45	761	31	4	21	6020

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
Nellie Fox	156	716	624	84	191	34	6	2	70	5	6	71	13	.306	.380	.389	.770	243	6	7	9	5	8
Luis Aparicio	152	686	612	98	157	18	5	6	51	56	13	53	40	.257	.316	.332	.647	203	11	3	11	7	1
Jim Landis	149	623	515	78	140	26	7	5	60	20	9	78	68	.272	.370	.379	.749	195	5	8	13	9	5
Sherm Lollar	140	576	505	63	134	22	3	22	84	4	3	55	49	.265	.345	.451	.796	228	27	9	2	5	6
Al Smith	129	529	472	65	112	16	4	17	55	7	5	46	74	.237	.311	.396	.707	187	10	5	5	1	3
Bubba Phillips	117	415	379	43	100	27	1	5	40	1	1	27	28	.264	.319	.380	.699	144	8	4	4	1	7
Billy Goodman	104	291	268	21	67	14	1	1	28	3	0	19	20	.250	.304	.321	.625	86	4	2	2	0	0
Earl Torgeson	127	344	277	40	61	5	3	9	45	7	6	62	55	.220	.359	.357	.716	99	7	0	1	4	1
Jim McAnany	67	231	210	22	58	9	3	0	27	2	1	19	26	.276	.339	.348	.687	73	2	1	1	0	4
Jim Rivera	80	192	177	18	39	9	4	4	19	5	3	11	19	.220	.266	.384	.650	68	1	1	0	3	3
John Romano	53	153	126	20	37	5	1	5	25	0	1	23	18	.294	.407	.468	.875	59	3	1	3	0	0
Ted Kluszewski	31	112	101	11	30	2	1	2	10	0	1	9	10	.297	.351	.396	.747	40	4	0	1	1	3
Norm Cash	58	130	104	16	25	0	1	4	16	1	1	18	9	.240	.372	.375	.747	39	0	5	1	2	3
Early Wynn	37	103	90	11	22	7	0	2	8	0	0	9	18	.244	.317	.389	.706	35	1	1	2	1	0
Del Ennis	26	100	96	10	21	6	0	2	7	0	0	4	10	.219	.250	.344	.594	33	2	0	0	0	0
Johnny Callison	49	118	104	12	18	3	0	3	12	0	1	13	20	.173	.271	.288	.560	30	5	1	0	0	0
Larry Doby	21	60	58	1	14	1	1	0	9	1	0	2	13	.241	.267	.293	.560	17	1	0	0	0	0
Earl Battey	26	72	64	9	14	1	2	2	7	0	0	8	13	.219	.306	.391	.696	25	0	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	38	79	75	5	14	5	1	2	13	0	0	4	14	.187	.228	.360	.588	27	1	0	0	0	0
Billy Pierce	34	81	68	3	13	1	2	0	7	0	0	7	13	.191	.267	.265	.531	18	1	0	6	0	0
Sammy Esposito	69	81	66	12	11	1	0	1	5	0	1	11	16	.167	.282	.227	.509	15	1	0	3	1	1
Bob Shaw	47	88	73	7	9	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	19	.123	.179	.137	.316	10	2	0	10	0	0
Dick Donovan	31	69	61	4	8	4	0	1	5	0	0	5	32	.131	.197	.246	.443	15	1	0	3	0	0
Barry Latman	37	55	47	3	6	1	0	0	6	0	0	4	4	.128	.189	.149	.338	7	1	0	2	2	0
Ray Boone	9	30	21	3	5	0	0	1	5	1	0	7	5	.238	.400	.381	.781	8	0	0	0	2	0
Joe Hicks	6	8	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	.429	.500	.429	.929	3	0	0	0	0	0
Turk Lown	60	13	12	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	10	16	14	3	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	.214	.313	.500	.813	7	1	1	0	0	0
Don Mueller	4	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Gerry Staley	67	20	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	.154	.313	.154	.466	2	0	0	4	0	0
Ray Moore	29	25	23	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	.087	.125	.130	.255	3	1	0	1	0	0
Joe Stanka	2	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
J. C. Martin	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ken McBride	11	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Lou Skizas	8	16	13	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.077	.250	.077	.327	1	1	0	0	0	0
Cam Carreon	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rudy Arias	34	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Rudolph	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Peters	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Claude Raymond	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2031	6054	5297	669	1325	220	46	97	620	113	53	580	634	.250	.327	.364	.691	1928	107	49	84	44	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Earl Torgeson	1B	103	68	710.0	717	37	13	58	.983	9.558	7.320	0	0	0	0
Norm Cash	1B	31	25	226.3	231	14	4	19	.984	9.742	7.903	0	0	0	0
Ted Kluszewski	1B	29	29	207.0	220	10	0	13	1.000	1.000	7.931	0	0	0	0
Sherm Lollar	1B	24	23	184.0	177	17	1	19	.995	9.489	8.083	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	1B	6	5	49.0	37	5	2	2	.955	7.714	7.000	0	0	0	0
Ron Jackson	1B	5	3	26.0	30	1	0	3	1.000	1.731	6.200	0	0	0	0
Larry Doby	1B	2	2	16.0	13	1	1	3	.933	7.875	7.000	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	1B	1	1	7.0	9	0	1	0	.900	11.571	9.000	0	0	0	0
Nellie Fox	2B	156	156	1405.7	364	453	10	93	.988	5.231	5.237	0	0	0	0
Billy Goodman	2B	3	0	17.7	4	5	0	1	1.000	4.585	3.000	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	2B	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bubba Phillips	3B	100	86	791.0	90	202	15	13	.951	3.322	2.920	0	0	0	0
Billy Goodman	3B	74	67	496.0	57	135	10	10	.950	3.484	2.595	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	3B	45	3	127.7	22	25	1	1	.979	3.313	1.044	0	0	0	0
J. C. Martin	3B	2	0	7.7	0	2	1	0	.667	2.348	1.000	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	3B	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Sherm Lollar	C	122	106	994.0	623	51	5	14	.993	6.103	5.525	4	11	37	27	42.2
John Romano	C	38	34	285.7	169	16	4	5	.979	5.828	4.868	5	5	14	6	30.0
Earl Battey	C	20	16	141.7	92	10	1	1	.990	6.480	5.100	1	5	5	4	44.4
Cam Carreon	C	1	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	3.000	0	0	0	0
Jim Landis	OF	148	145	1301.7	420	10	3	2	.993	2.973	2.905	0	0	0	0
Al Smith	OF	128	126	1145.7	283	8	6	2	.980	2.286	2.273	0	0	0	0
Jim McAnany	OF	67	60	542.3	106	6	4	4	.966	1.859	1.672	0	0	0	0
Jim Rivera	OF	69	43	435.7	75	5	2	3	.976	1.653	1.159	0	0	0	0
Johnny Callison	OF	41	27	271.0	54	3	1	0	.983	1.893	1.390	0	0	0	0
Del Ennis	OF	25	24	183.0	28	2	3	0	.909	1.475	1.200	0	0	0	0
Bubba Phillips	OF	23	17	154.7	37	0	0	0	1.000	2.153	1.609	0	0	0	0
Harry Simpson	OF	12	11	105.0	18	0	1	0	.947	1.543	1.500	0	0	0	0
Larry Doby	OF	12	10	94.0	20	1	1	1	.955	2.011	1.750	0	0	0	0
Lou Skizas	OF	6	4	26.3	6	1	0	0	1.000	2.392	1.167	0	0	0	0
Joe Hicks	OF	4	1	16.7	3	1	0	0	1.000	2.160	1.000	0	0	0	0
Early Wynn	P	37	37	255.7	6	39	2	2	.957	1.584	1.216	0	0	0	0
Bob Shaw	P	47	26	230.7	17	46	2	3	.969	2.458	1.340	0	0	0	0
Billy Pierce	P	34	33	224.0	11	40	2	4	.962	2.049	1.500	0	0	0	0
Dick Donovan	P	31	29	179.7	11	26	4	1	.902	1.853	1.194	0	0	0	0
Barry Latman	P	37	21	156.0	5	13	1	1	.947	1.038	.486	0	0	0	0
Gerry Staley	P	67	0	116.3	7	19	2	3	.929	2.011	.388	0	0	0	0
Turk Lown	P	60	0	93.3	2	21	1	0	.958	2.218	.383	0	0	0	0
Ray Moore	P	29	8	89.7	3	14	1	0	.944	1.706	.586	0	0	0	0
Rudy Arias	P	34	0	44.0	3	10	0	0	1.000	2.659	.382	0	0	0	0
Ken McBride	P	11	2	22.7	0	9	1	0	.900	3.574	.818	0	0	0	0
Joe Stanka	P	2	0	5.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Claude Raymond	P	3	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.333	0	0	0	0
Don Rudolph	P	4	0	3.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	6.000	.500	0	0	0	0
Gary Peters	P	2	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Luis Aparicio	SS	152	150	1338.7	282	460	23	87	.970	4.989	4.882	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	SS	14	6	86.7	17	32	1	5	.980	5.088	3.500	0	0	0	0
Totals		1864	1404	12828.0	4273	1752	130	374	.979	4.227	3.232	10	21	56	37	39.8

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Bob Shaw	WS	1	1	.500	2.57	2	2	0	0	14.0	17	4	4	3	2	0	2	1	61
Early Wynn	WS	1	1	.500	5.54	3	3	0	0	13.0	19	9	8	1	4	0	10	0	62
Billy Pierce	WS	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	17
Turk Lown	WS	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	3.3	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	13
Ray Moore	WS	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	4
Gerry Staley	WS	0	1	.000	2.16	4	0	3	1	8.3	8	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	31
Dick Donovan	WS	0	1	.000	5.40	3	1	1	1	8.3	4	5	5	1	3	0	5	0	31
Totals		2	4	.333	3.46	19	6	6	2	52.0	53	21	20	7	12	1	27	1	219

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Ted Kluszewski	WS	6	25	23	5	9	1	3	10	0	0	2	0	.391	.440	.826	1.266	19	1	0	0	0	2
Nellie Fox	WS	6	28	24	4	9	3	0	0	0	1	4	1	.375	.464	.500	.964	12	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Aparicio	WS	6	29	26	1	8	1	0	0	1	1	2	3	.308	.357	.346	.703	9	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Landis	WS	6	26	24	6	7	0	0	1	1	0	1	7	.292	.346	.292	.638	7	0	1	0	0	0
Al Smith	WS	6	24	20	1	5	3	0	1	0	0	4	4	.250	.375	.400	.775	8	2	0	0	0	0
Sherm Lollar	WS	6	24	22	3	5	0	1	5	0	0	1	3	.227	.250	.364	.614	8	2	0	0	1	0
Bubba Phillips	WS	3	10	10	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.300	.300	.400	.700	4	1	0	0	0	0
Billy Goodman	WS	5	14	13	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.231	.286	.231	.516	3	0	1	0	0	0
Dick Donovan	WS	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Shaw	WS	2	6	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	2	0	0
Early Wynn	WS	3	5	5	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.400	.600	2	0	0	0	0	0
Norm Cash	WS	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sammy Esposito	WS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim McAnany	WS	3	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Rivera	WS	5	14	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	.000	.214	.000	.214	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Romano	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gerry Staley	WS	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Earl Torgeson	WS	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turk Lown	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Moore	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Pierce	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		81	225	199	23	52	10	4	19	2	3	20	33	.261	.333	.372	.705	74	6	2	3	1	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB
Ted Kluszewski	WS	1B	6	6	51.0	58	3	0	2	1.000	1.765	1.167	0
Earl Torgeson	WS	1B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Nellie Fox	WS	2B	6	6	52.0	14	23	0	2	1.000	6.404	6.167	0
Billy Goodman	WS	3B	5	3	24.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.125	.600	0
Bubba Phillips	WS	3B	3	3	21.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000	0
Sammy Esposito	WS	3B	2	0	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.500	0
Sherm Lollar	WS	C	6	6	52.0	29	5	0	0	1.000	5.885	5.667	1
Jim Landis	WS	CF	6	6	52.0	9	0	1	0	.900	1.558	1.500	0
Al Smith	WS	LF	6	5	45.3	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.985	1.667	0
Jim McAnany	WS	LF	1	1	6.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.350	1.000	0
Bob Shaw	WS	P	2	2	14.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	2.571	2.000	0
Early Wynn	WS	P	3	3	13.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.769	1.333	0
Gerry Staley	WS	P	4	0	8.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.160	.500	0
Dick Donovan	WS	P	3	1	8.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.160	.667	0
Billy Pierce	WS	P	3	0	4.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0
Turk Lown	WS	P	3	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Ray Moore	WS	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Jim Rivera	WS	RF	5	3	29.3	10	1	0	0	1.000	3.375	2.200	0
Jim McAnany	WS	RF	2	2	11.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	3.273	2.000	0
Al Smith	WS	RF	1	1	6.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Bubba Phillips	WS	RF	1	0	5.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	3.000	0
Luis Aparicio	WS	SS	6	6	52.0	10	16	2	2	.929	4.500	4.333	0
Totals			76	54	468.0	156	62	4	6	.982	4.192	2.868	1

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