1959 Kansas City Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 66-88
Finished 7th in the AL
Attendance: 963,683, 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.

The Athletics scored 681 runs and allowed 760 runs, most in the circuit. Bob Cerv led Kansas City with 20 home runs, while Roger Maris and Dick Williams walloped 20 or more as well. Bob Cerv recorded 87 runs batted in. Bill Tuttle paced hitters with significant playing time with a .300 average. Bud Daley topped the team with 16 wins and a team-best 3.16 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Harry Craft coached the team.

Click on column headings to sort.

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

Statistical data from Baseball Databank, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License