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1960 Kansas City Athletics season

Field	Value
name	Kansas City Athletics
season	1960
league	American League
ballpark	Municipal Stadium
city	Kansas City, Missouri
record
league_place	8th
owners	Estate of Arnold Johnson
general_managers	Parke Carroll
managers	Bob Elliott
television	WDAF-TV
radio	WDAF
(Merle Harmon, Bill Grigsby)

(Merle Harmon, Bill Grigsby) |}} The 1960 Kansas City Athletics season was the sixth in Kansas City and the 60th overall. It involved the A's finishing last place in the American League's final season as an eight team circuit. Kansas City recorded 58 wins and 96 losses, 39 games behind the AL Champion New York Yankees.

Offseason

At the 1959 Winter Meetings, Pittsburgh Pirates General Manager Joe L. Brown had agreed to trade Dick Groat to the Kansas City Athletics in exchange for Roger Maris. Pirates' manager Danny Murtaugh had advised Brown that he did not want to lose Groat, and the deal was never finalized. Maris was traded to the New York Yankees on December 11.

On March 10, 1960, owner Arnold Johnson died at the age of 53. After the 1960 season, the team would be sold by Johnson's estate to businessman Charlie Finley.

Notable transactions

November 21, 1959: Frank House was traded by the Athletics to the Cincinnati Redlegs for Tom Acker.
December 11, 1959: Roger Maris, Joe DeMaestri and Kent Hadley were traded by the Athletics to the New York Yankees for Don Larsen, Hank Bauer, Norm Siebern, and Marv Throneberry.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

May 19, 1960: Bob Cerv was traded by the Athletics to the New York Yankees for Andy Carey.
July 26, 1960: Harry Chiti was purchased from the Athletics by the Detroit Tigers.

Roster

1960 Kansas City Athletics
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	73	228	19	60	.263	5	25
1B	104	236	29	59	.250	11	41
2B	146	574	69	156	.272	8	53
3B	102	343	30	80	.233	12	53
SS	140	428	51	96	.224	2	24
LF	144	520	69	145	.279	19	69
CF	151	559	75	143	.256	8	40
RF	95	255	30	70	.275	3	31

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	127	420	47	121	.288	12	65
	125	304	45	79	.260	4	26
	83	252	43	67	.266	8	38
	58	190	16	42	.221	5	28
Danny Kravitz	59	175	17	41	.234	4	14
	76	146	12	30	.205	1	9
	23	78	14	20	.256	6	12
Jim Delsing	16	40	2	10	.250	0	5
Leo Posada	10	36	8	13	.361	1	2
Ray Jablonski	21	32	3	7	.219	0	3
Chet Boak	5	13	1	2	.154	0	1
	5	13	3	4	.308	1	2
Lou Klimchock	10	10	0	3	.300	0	0
Hank Foiles	6	7	1	4	.571	0	1
	2	1	0	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
37	252.2	14	15	3.28	122
37	231.0	16	16	4.56	126
29	182.1	8	13	4.05	79

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	28	122.1	4	9	3.83	50
Johnny Kucks	31	114.0	4	10	6.00	38
Don Larsen	22	83.2	1	10	5.38	43
John Tsitouris	14	33.0	0	2	6.55	12
	3	10.1	0	2	4.35	4

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	51	3	2	4	3.94	20
	42	5	10	3	4.26	83
Bob Trowbridge	22	1	3	2	4.61	33
	21	0	0	1	3.66	28
	20	1	2	1	1.74	6
	10	1	0	0	5.79	8
	8	0	2	0	12.71	8
Dave Wickersham	5	0	0	2	1.08	3
	1	0	0	0	27.00	0
Howie Reed	1	0	0	0	0.00	1

Farm system

and Bill Robertson and Lloyd Brown

References

''Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero'', p. 114, Tom Clavin and Danny Peary, Touchstone Books, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-1-4165-8928-0
''Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman'', pp.32, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-0-8027-1745-0
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/housefr03.shtml Frank House page at Baseball Reference]
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19591212&id=4fBNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nooDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5853,5445929&hl=en Maris goes to Yanks; A's get Larsen in 7-man deal]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cervbo01.shtml Bob Cerv page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/chitiha01.shtml Harry Chiti page at Baseball Reference]
"1960 Kansas City Athletics Statistics".

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