1960 Major League Baseball season

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The 1960 major league baseball season began on April 12, 1960. The regular season ended on October 2, with the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 57th World Series on October 5 and ended with Game 7 on October 13. In the second iteration of this World Series matchup, the Pirates, led by second baseman Bill Mazeroski, defeated the Yankees, led by outfield sluggers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, four games to three, capturing their third championship in franchise history, since their previous in 1925. The series ended with Mazeroski hitting a walk-off home run in Game 7 and is among the most memorable in baseball history. Going into the season, the defending World Series champions were the Los Angeles Dodgers from the 1959 season.

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1960 MLB season
LeagueAmerican League (AL)
National League (NL)
SportBaseball
DurationRegular season:
  • April 18 – October 2, 1960 (AL)
  • April 12 – October 2, 1960 (NL)
World Series:
  • October 5–13, 1960
Number of games154
Number of teams16 (8 per league)
TV partner(s)NBC, CBS, ABC
Regular season
Season MVPAL: Roger Maris (NY)
NL: Dick Groat (PIT)
AL championsNew York Yankees
  AL runners-upBaltimore Orioles
NL championsPittsburgh Pirates
  NL runners-upMilwaukee Braves
World Series
ChampionsPittsburgh Pirates
  Runners-upNew York Yankees
World Series MVPBobby Richardson (NY)
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Locations of teams for the 1955–1960 American League seasons
American League
Locations of teams for the 1960–1961 National League seasons
National League

For the second year, there were two separate All-Star Games played. The first, the 28th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, was held on July 11 at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, home of the Kansas City Athletics. The National League won, 5–3. The second, the 29th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, was held on July 13 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York, home of the New York Yankees. The National League won, 6–0.

The American League's Washington Senators played their final season in Washington, D.C. before moving to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area as the Minnesota Twins for the 1961 season. Due to threats of the proposed Continental League, a third major league which would host teams in cities that did not play major-league teams (as well as a National League New York team), the 1960 season would prove to be the final season before the expansion-era; the following season would see the American League grow to ten teams. Expansion would see the end of the 154-game schedule in favor of a 162-game schedule.

Schedule

The 1960 schedule consisted of 154 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had eight teams. Each team was scheduled to play 22 games against the other seven teams of their respective league. This continued the format put in place since the 1904 season (except for 1919) and was the last season to use the format by the American League due to the 1961 American League expansion, which saw an extension of the schedule to 162 games. The National League would use the 154-game format for one more season.

National League Opening Day took place on April 12, featuring all eight teams, while American League Opening Day took place on April 18, featuring the Boston Red Sox and Washington Senators. The final day of the regular season was on October 2, which saw all sixteen teams play, continuing the trend since the previous season. The World Series took place between October 5 and October 13.

Teams

Standings

American League

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American League
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 9757 .630 5522 4235
Baltimore Orioles 8965 .578 8 4433 4532
Chicago White Sox 8767 .565 10 5126 3641
Cleveland Indians 7678 .494 21 3938 3740
Washington Senators 7381 .474 24 3245 4136
Detroit Tigers 7183 .461 26 4037 3146
Boston Red Sox 6589 .422 32 3641 2948
Kansas City Athletics 5896 .377 39 3443 2453
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National League

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National League
Team W L Pct. GB Home Road
Pittsburgh Pirates 9559 .617 5225 4334
Milwaukee Braves 8866 .571 7 5126 3740
St. Louis Cardinals 8668 .558 9 5126 3542
Los Angeles Dodgers 8272 .532 13 4235 4037
San Francisco Giants 7975 .513 16 4532 3443
Cincinnati Reds 6787 .435 28 3740 3047
Chicago Cubs 6094 .390 35 3344 2750
Philadelphia Phillies 5995 .383 36 3146 2849
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Postseason

The postseason began on October 5 and ended on October 13 with the Pittsburgh Pirates defeating the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series in seven games.

Bracket

World Series
   
AL New York 3
NL Pittsburgh 4

Managerial changes

Off-season

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In-season

League leaders

American League

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Hitting leaders[2]
Stat Player Total
AVG Pete Runnels (BOS) .320
OPS Mickey Mantle (NY) .957
HR Mickey Mantle (NY) 40
RBI Roger Maris (NY) 112
R Mickey Mantle (NY) 119
H Minnie Miñoso (CWS) 184
SB Luis Aparicio (CWS) 51
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Pitching leaders[3]
Stat Player Total
W Chuck Estrada (BAL)
Jim Perry (CLE)
18
L Pedro Ramos (WSH) 18
ERA Frank Baumann (CWS) 2.67
K Jim Bunning (DET) 201
IP Frank Lary (DET) 274.1
SV Johnny Klippstein (CLE) 14
WHIP Hal Brown (BAL) 1.113
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National League

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Hitting leaders[4]
Stat Player Total
AVG Dick Groat (PIT) .325
OPS Frank Robinson (CIN) 1.002
HR Ernie Banks (CHC) 41
RBI Hank Aaron (MIL) 126
R Bill Bruton (MIL) 112
H Willie Mays (SF) 190
SB Maury Wills (LA) 50
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Pitching leaders[5]
Stat Player Total
W Ernie Broglio (STL)
Warren Spahn (MIL)
21
L Glen Hobbie (CHC) 20
ERA Mike McCormick (SF) 2.70
K Don Drysdale (LA) 246
IP Larry Jackson (STL) 282.0
SV Lindy McDaniel (STL) 27
WHIP Don Drysdale (LA) 1.063
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Awards and honors

Regular season

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Other awards

Monthly awards

Player of the Month

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Month National League
May Roberto Clemente (PIT)
June Lindy McDaniel (STL)
July Don Drysdale (LA)
August Warren Spahn (MIL)
September Ken Boyer (STL)
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Home field attendance

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Team name Wins Home attendance Per game
Los Angeles Dodgers[12] 82 −6.8% 2,253,887 8.8% 29,271
San Francisco Giants[13] 79 −4.8% 1,795,356 26.2% 23,316
Pittsburgh Pirates[14] 95 21.8% 1,705,828 25.4% 21,870
Chicago White Sox[15] 87 −7.4% 1,644,460 15.6% 21,357
New York Yankees[16] 97 22.8% 1,627,349 4.9% 21,134
Milwaukee Braves[17] 88 2.3% 1,497,799 −14.4% 19,452
Baltimore Orioles[18] 89 20.3% 1,187,849 33.2% 15,427
Detroit Tigers[19] 71 −6.6% 1,167,669 −4.4% 15,165
Boston Red Sox[20] 65 −13.3% 1,129,866 14.8% 14,674
St. Louis Cardinals[21] 86 21.1% 1,096,632 17.9% 14,242
Cleveland Indians[22] 76 −14.6% 950,985 −36.5% 12,350
Philadelphia Phillies[23] 59 −7.8% 862,205 7.4% 11,197
Chicago Cubs[24] 60 −18.9% 809,770 −5.6% 10,250
Kansas City Athletics[25] 58 −12.1% 774,944 −19.6% 9,935
Washington Senators[26] 73 15.9% 743,404 20.8% 9,655
Cincinnati Reds[27] 67 −9.5% 663,486 −17.2% 8,617
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Umpires

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American League Umpires
NameGHP1B2B3BLFRFRef
Charlie Berry1523938373900[28]
Nestor Chylak1553837404000[29]
Cal Drummond1473638363700[30]
Red Flaherty1493737383700[31]
Jim Honochick1553840383900[32]
Eddie Hurley1493836373800[33]
Bill Kinnamon21565500[34]
Bill McKinley1343532323500[35]
Larry Napp1523838393700[36]
Joe Paparella1604239394000[37]
John Rice1574039374100[38]
Ed Runge1353435343200[39]
Harry Schwarts21556500[40]
Al Smith1613842404100[41]
Hank Soar1523939363800[42]
Johnny Stevens1544040373700[43]
Bob Stewart1533838403700[44]
Frank Umont1523838374000[45]
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More information National League Umpires, Name ...
National League Umpires
NameGHP1B2B3BLFRFRef
Al Barlick1463536354000[46]
Dusty Boggess1514036363900[47]
Ken Burkhart1604143354100[48]
Jocko Conlan1564036413900[49]
Shag Crawford1533840373800[50]
Frank Dascoli1533737394000[51]
Augie Donatelli1604141374100[52]
Tom Gorman1543939364100[53]
Bill Jackowski1544041363700[54]
Stan Landes1543940383700[55]
Chris Pelekoudas1533838383900[56]
Frank Secory1534138373700[57]
Vinnie Smith1523939383700[58]
Ed Sudol1523739413600[59]
Ed Vargo1563840393900[60]
Tony Venzon1533738403800[61]
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Events

January–February

March–April

May

June

  • June 12 – In a record-tying three-hour-and-52-minute, 9-inning game, Willie McCovey's pinch-hit grand slam, the first slam of his career, and Orlando Cepeda's three-run double pace the Giants to a 16–7 rout of the Braves.
  • June 19 – In a brilliant pair of pitching performances, Orioles pitchers Hoyt Wilhelm and Milt Pappas throw shutouts to beat the host Detroit Tigers. Wilhelm allows two hits in winning the opener, 2–0, over Jim Bunning, and Pappas allows three hits in winning the nightcap, 1–0, over Don Mossi. Jim Gentile and Ron Hansen collect home runs as catcher Clint Courtney, using the big glove designed by manager Paul Richards, is twice charged with batter interference, the first loading the bases in the 4th inning.
  • June 24 – Willie Mays belts two home runs and makes 10 putouts to lead the Giants in a 5–3 win at Cincinnati. Mays adds three RBI, three runs scored, a single and a steal of home.
  • June 26 – Hoping to speed up the election process, the Hall of Fame changes its voting procedures. The new rules allow the Special Veterans Committee to vote annually, rather than every other year, and to induct up to two players a year. The BBWAA is authorized to hold a runoff election of the top 30 vote getters if no one is elected in the first ballot.
  • June 30 – Dick Stuart blasts three consecutive home runs, as the Pirates split with the Giants. Stuart drives in seven runs and joins Ralph Kiner as the second Pirates player to hit three home runs in a game at Forbes Field.

July

August

  • August 2 – In an agreement with the major leagues, the Continental League abandons plans to join the American League and National League. Walter O'Malley, chairman of the NL Expansion Committee, says, "We immediately will recommend expansion and that we would like to do it in 1961." Milwaukee Braves owner Lou Perini proposes a compromise that four of the CL territories be admitted to the current majors in orderly expansion. Branch Rickey's group quickly accepts. The Continental League ends without playing a game.
  • August 3 – In an unusual move, Cleveland Indians GM Frank Lane trades managers with Detroit Tigers GM Bill DeWitt. The Indians' Joe Gordon (49–46) is dealt to the Tigers for Jimmy Dykes (44–52). For one game, until the pair can change places, Jo-Jo White pilots the Indians and Billy Hitchcock guides the Tigers.
  • August 7 – The Chicago White Sox win a pair from the Washington Senators, with reliever Gerry Staley picking up two victories. Staley will be 13–8, all in relief, with both wins and losses topping the American League relievers.
  • August 8 – Before a day crowd of 48,323, the largest day crowd ever at Comiskey Park, cheer White Sox pitcher Billy Pierce four-hit victory over the Yankees, 9–1. Pierce faces just 31 batters.
  • August 9 – With fine relief pitching of Lindy McDaniel in the opener and a five-hitter by Curt Simmons in the nightcap, the St. Louis Cardinals sweep the Philadelphia Phillies, 5–4 and 6–0. Phillies' Tony Taylor ties a major league record for a second baseman by going the entire doubleheader (18 innings) without a putout – the first to achieve the feat since Connie Ryan, also of the Phillies, on June 14, 1953.
  • August 10 – Ted Williams blasts a pair of home runs and a double to pace the Red Sox to a 6–1 win over the Cleveland Indians. Williams has 21 homers for the season. The first of the two today, #512, moves him past Mel Ott into fourth place on the all-time list. After the game, Williams announces that he will retire at the end of the season.
  • August 18 – Facing just the minimum 27 batters, Lew Burdette of the Milwaukee Braves almost pitches a perfect game, instead settling for a 1–0 no-hitter against the Phillies. Tony González, the only Phillies base runner, reached first base in the fifth inning after being hit by a pitch and was wiped out in a double play. The Milwaukee pitcher also scores the only run of the game.
  • August 20 – Ted Williams draws the 2,000th walk of his career in the Red Sox' split of a twi-night doubleheader with the Orioles. Williams joins Babe Ruth as the only major leaguers to collect 2,000 walks. Rickey Henderson in 2000, and Barry Bonds in 2003, will join the select 2,000 walks group.
  • August 23 – Following up his no-hitter, Lew Burdette fires his third shutout in a row, pitching the Milwaukee Braves to a 7–0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • August 27 – After pitching 3223 shutout innings, Braves pitcher Lew Burdette gives up a Felipe Alou home run as San Francisco defeats the Braves 3–1.
  • August 30 – Boston Red Sox second baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7, as Boston edge the Tigers in the 15-inning opener of a twin bill. Runnels' 15th-inning double brings Frank Malzone home with the winning run to win, 5–4. Runnels has three more hits in the nightcap victory, 3–2 in 10 innings. His six hits are the most in an American League game since July 8, 1955. With 9-for-11 in the doubleheader, Runnels ties the major league record.

September

  • September 2 – Boston's Ted Williams hits a home run off Don Lee of the Senators. Williams had homered against Lee's father, Thornton, 20 years earlier.
  • September 3:
  • September 10 – In Detroit, Yankees Mickey Mantle hit a home run in the sixth inning, the ball clearing the right field roof and landing in the Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. In June 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and will be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records at that distance.
  • September 13–18-year-old outfielder Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Chicago Cubs player to hit a home run when he clouts a three-run homer off Bob Purkey of the Cincinnati Reds, as the Reds win 8–6 at home. Murphy will play just 49 games for the Cubs from 1960 to 1962. He will come back as a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox in 1969–70.
  • September 15 – Willie Mays ties the modern major league record with three triples in a game against the Phillies. The last National League player to hit three triples in a game was Roberto Clemente, in 1958.
  • September 16:
    • At the age of 39, Warren Spahn notches his 11th 20-win season with a 4–0 no-hitter against the Phillies. Spahn also sets a Milwaukee club record with 15 strikeouts in handing the last-place Phils their 90th loss of the year.
    • The Baltimore Orioles (83–58) and New York Yankees (82–57) open a crucial four games series with the Orioles just .002 in back of New York. Three days later, during a doubleheader, the Yankees will sweep Baltimore. The faltering Birds, now four back, will end up in second place, eight games back.
  • September 18 – At Wrigley Field, Ernie Banks sets a record by drawing his 27th intentional walk of the season.
  • September 19 – The Chicago White Sox' pennant hopes are damaged with a nightcap 7–6 loss to the Detroit Tigers, after they win the opener, 8–4. Pinch hitter Norm Cash scores the decisive run in the second game; he thus ends the season by grounding into no double plays, becoming the first American League player since league records on this were started in 1940. Teammates Dick McAuliffe and Roger Repoz will duplicate this in 1968.
  • September 20 – Boston Red Sox outfielder Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Ted Williams, who is forced to leave the game after fouling a ball off his ankle, and grounds into a double play. On May 31, 1961, Hardy will pinch hit for rookie Carl Yastrzemski, making him the only player to go to bat for both future Hall of Famers. Hardy also hit his first major league home run pinch-hitting for Roger Maris when both were at Cleveland (May 18, 1958).
  • September 25:
  • September 28 – In his last major league at bat, Ted Williams picks out a 1–1 pitch by Baltimore's Jack Fisher and drives it 450 feet into the right-center field seats behind the Boston bullpen. It is Williams' 521st and last career home run, putting him third on the all-time list. Williams stays in the dugout, ignoring the thunderous ovation at Fenway Park and refusing to tip his hat to the hometown fans.

October

November–December

Television coverage

CBS and NBC continued to air weekend Game of the Week broadcasts. ABC also returned to MLB broadcasting with a series of afternoon Saturday games. ABC typically did three regional games a week. Two of ABC's games were always from the Eastern or Central Time Zone, while the late game was usually a San Francisco Giants[64] or Los Angeles Dodgers home game.

The All-Star Game and World Series aired on NBC.

Retired numbers

See also

References

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