1959 Kansas City Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Kansas City Athletics
season = 1959
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Municipal Stadium
y4 = 1955
city = Kansas City, Missouri
y5 = 1955
owners = Arnold Johnson
managers = Harry Craft
television = WDAF-TV
radio = WDAF
(Merle Harmon, Bill Grigsby)|The Kansas City Athletics' 1959 season involved the A's finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 66 wins and 88 losses.

Offseason

*October 2, 1958: Chico Carrasquel was traded by the Kansas City Athletics to the Baltimore Orioles for Dick Williams. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/carrach01.shtml Chico Carrasquel Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]

Regular season

eason standings

Notable transactions

*May 2, 1959: Ray Boone was traded by the Chicago White Sox to the Kansas City Athletics for Harry Simpson. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boonera01.shtml]
*May 26, 1959: Ralph Terry was traded by the Kansas City Athletics with Hector Lopez to the New York Yankees for Johnny Kucks, Tom Sturdivant, and Jerry Lumpe. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/t/terryra01.shtml Ralph Terry Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
*August 20, 1959: Ray Boone was selected off waivers by the Milwaukee Braves from the Kansas City Athletics. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/boonera01.shtml]

The Ralph Terry trade

During the Arnold Johnson ownership, any good young players on the Athletics were invariably traded by general manager Parke Carroll to the Yankees for aging veterans and cash. The cash was used to pay the bills, with the veterans perhaps having star appeal that could improve attendance.One of the great controversies was the Ralph Terry trade. In May 1959, the Yankees sent Jerry Lumpe and two veteran pitchers to the Athletics for Ralph Terry. Once "home," Terry became a 20-game winner for New York.The Yankees brought up Ralph Terry in 1956, but had limited playing time. In June 1957, they traded him to the A's in an eight-player deal. After getting nearly two years of experience facing A.L. batters, Terry was sent back to New York. Other clubs charged that the A’s were little more than a Yankee farm team at the major league level, citing Johnson's pre-existing cozy relationship with Yankees owners Dan Topping and Del Webb. A detailed account of this period is "The Kansas City A's and The Wrong Half of the Yankees", by Jeff Katz, published by Maple Street Press.

Roster

[http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCA/1959.shtml]

Other batters

Relief pitchers

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCA/1959.shtml 1959 Kansas City Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1959&t=KC1 1959 Kansas City Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]