1955 Kansas City Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Kansas City Athletics
season = 1955
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 = Lou Boudreau
television = none
radio = KMBC
(Merle Harmon, Larry Ray)|The Kansas City Athletics' 1955 season involved the A's finishing 6th in the American League with a record of 63 wins and 91 losses. On October 12, 1954, the owners approved the sale of the Athletics to Chicago businessman, Arnold Johnson, moved the team to Kansas City for the 1955 season. In 1955, the new Kansas City Athletics drew 1,393,054 to Municipal Stadium. The A's won 63 games in 1955, only the fifth time in the last 20 years that they'd managed to win more than 60 games. However, the A's ended up 33 games behind the AL Champion Yankees.

Regular season

Notable transactions

*May 11, 1955: Enos Slaughter was traded by the New York Yankees with Johnny Sain to the Kansas City Athletics for Sonny Dixon and cash. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/slaugen01.shtml Enos Slaughter Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com ] ]
* May 31, 1955: Clete Boyer was signed by the Kansas City Athletics as an amateur free agent (bonus baby).

eason standings

Roster

[http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCA/1955.shtml]

Other batters

Relief pitchers

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCA/1955.shtml 1955 Kansas City Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1955&t=KC1 1955 Kansas City Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]