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White Sox</a> (4–2); <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sherry" title="Larry Sherry">Larry Sherry</a>, MVP</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">All-Star Game (#1)</a>, July 7 at <a href="/wiki/Forbes_Field" title="Forbes Field">Forbes Field</a>: National League, 5–4</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">All-Star Game (#2)</a>, August 3 at <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Memorial_Coliseum" title="Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum">Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum</a>: American League, 5–3</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_champions">Other champions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other champions"><span>edit</span></a><span 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team">Venezuela</a> over <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_national_baseball_team" title="Puerto Rico national baseball team">Puerto Rico</a></li></ul> <p><b>Winter Leagues</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1959_Caribbean_Series" title="1959 Caribbean Series">1959 Caribbean Series</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alacranes_de_Almendares" class="mw-redirect" title="Alacranes de Almendares">Alacranes de Almendares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuban_League" title="Cuban League">Cuban League</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alacranes_de_Almendares" class="mw-redirect" title="Alacranes de Almendares">Alacranes de Almendares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominican_Professional_Baseball_League" title="Dominican Professional Baseball League">Dominican Republic League</a>: <a href="/wiki/Tigres_del_Licey" title="Tigres del Licey">Tigres del Licey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mexican_Pacific_League" title="Mexican Pacific League">Mexican Pacific League</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Pacific_League#Defunct_teams" title="Mexican Pacific League">Ostioneros de Guaymas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panamanian_Professional_Baseball_League" title="Panamanian Professional Baseball League">Panamanian League</a>: <a href="/wiki/Panamanian_Professional_Baseball_League#Champion_teams" title="Panamanian Professional Baseball League">Coclé BBC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico_Baseball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Puerto Rico Baseball League">Puerto Rican League</a>: <a href="/wiki/Cangrejeros_de_Santurce_(baseball)" title="Cangrejeros de Santurce (baseball)">Cangrejeros de Santurce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venezuelan_Professional_Baseball_League" title="Venezuelan Professional Baseball League">Venezuelan League</a>: <a href="/wiki/Indios_de_Oriente" title="Indios de Oriente">Indios de Oriente</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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title="Hank Aaron">Hank Aaron</a> MIL</td> <td>.355 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">HR</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Colavito" title="Rocky Colavito">Rocky Colavito</a> CLE<br /><a href="/wiki/Harmon_Killebrew" title="Harmon Killebrew">Harmon Killebrew</a> WSH</td> <td>42</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Mathews" title="Eddie Mathews">Eddie Mathews</a> MIL</td> <td>46 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">RBI</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Jensen" title="Jackie Jensen">Jackie Jensen</a> BOS</td> <td>112</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Banks" title="Ernie Banks">Ernie Banks</a> CHC</td> <td>143 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Win_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Win (baseball)">Wins</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Early_Wynn" title="Early Wynn">Early Wynn</a> CHW</td> <td>22</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lew_Burdette" title="Lew Burdette">Lew Burdette</a> MIL<br /><a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(baseball)" title="Sam Jones 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height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/ButtonBlue.svg/12px-ButtonBlue.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/ButtonBlue.svg/16px-ButtonBlue.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="480" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a></div></div></div></div> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Nippon_Professional_Baseball_final_standings">Nippon Professional Baseball final standings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Nippon Professional Baseball final standings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Central_League_final_standings">Central League final standings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Central League final standings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" width="60%" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="35%"><a href="/wiki/Central_League" title="Central League">Central League</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Games_played" title="Games played">G</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Win_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Win (baseball)">W</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Loss_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Loss (baseball)">L</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Tie_(draw)" title="Tie (draw)">T</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="7%"><a href="/wiki/Winning_percentage" title="Winning percentage">Pct.</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Games_behind" title="Games behind">GB</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Yomiuri_Giants" title="Yomiuri Giants">Yomiuri Giants</a> </th> <td>130</td> <td>77</td> <td>48</td> <td>5</td> <td>.612</td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Osaka_Tigers" class="mw-redirect" title="Osaka Tigers">Osaka Tigers</a> </th> <td>130</td> <td>62</td> <td>59</td> <td>9</td> <td>.512</td> <td>13.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Chunichi_Dragons" title="Chunichi Dragons">Chunichi Dragons</a> </th> <td>130</td> <td>64</td> <td>61</td> <td>5</td> <td>.512</td> <td>13.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Kokutetsu_Swallows" class="mw-redirect" title="Kokutetsu Swallows">Kokutetsu Swallows</a> </th> <td>130</td> <td>63</td> <td>65</td> <td>2</td> <td>.492</td> <td>15.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Hiroshima_Carp" class="mw-redirect" title="Hiroshima Carp">Hiroshima Carp</a> </th> <td>130</td> <td>59</td> <td>64</td> <td>7</td> <td>.481</td> <td>17.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Taiyo_Whales" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiyo Whales">Taiyo Whales</a> </th> <td>130</td> <td>49</td> <td>77</td> <td>4</td> <td>.392</td> <td>28.5 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pacific_League_final_standings">Pacific League final standings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Pacific League final standings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" width="60%" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" width="35%"><a href="/wiki/Pacific_League" title="Pacific League">Pacific League</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Games_played" title="Games played">G</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Win_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Win (baseball)">W</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Loss_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Loss (baseball)">L</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Tie_(draw)" title="Tie (draw)">T</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="7%"><a href="/wiki/Winning_percentage" title="Winning percentage">Pct.</a> </th> <th scope="col" width="5%"><a href="/wiki/Games_behind" title="Games behind">GB</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Nankai_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="Nankai Hawks">Nankai Hawks</a> </th> <td>134</td> <td>88</td> <td>42</td> <td>4</td> <td>.677</td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Daimai_Orions" class="mw-redirect" title="Daimai Orions">Daimai Orions</a> </th> <td>136</td> <td>82</td> <td>48</td> <td>6</td> <td>.631</td> <td>6.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Toei_Flyers" class="mw-redirect" title="Toei Flyers">Toei Flyers</a> </th> <td>135</td> <td>67</td> <td>63</td> <td>5</td> <td>.515</td> <td>21.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Nishitetsu_Lions" class="mw-redirect" title="Nishitetsu Lions">Nishitetsu Lions</a> </th> <td>144</td> <td>66</td> <td>64</td> <td>14</td> <td>.508</td> <td>22.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Hankyu_Braves" class="mw-redirect" title="Hankyu Braves">Hankyu Braves</a> </th> <td>134</td> <td>48</td> <td>82</td> <td>4</td> <td>.369</td> <td>40.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Kintetsu_Buffaloes" class="mw-redirect" title="Kintetsu Buffaloes">Kintetsu Buffaloes</a> </th> <td>133</td> <td>39</td> <td>91</td> <td>3</td> <td>.300</td> <td>49.0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events">Events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>January 13 – <a href="/wiki/John_Quinn_(baseball_executive)" title="John Quinn (baseball executive)">John J. Quinn</a>, 50, <a href="/wiki/General_manager_(baseball)" title="General manager (baseball)">general manager</a> of the defending <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> champion <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a>, resigns to become GM of the cellar-dwelling <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, replacing <a href="/wiki/Roy_Hamey" title="Roy Hamey">Roy Hamey</a>. Quinn has headed the Braves' front office since 1945, when they played in Boston. Hamey rejoins the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> as assistant to GM <a href="/wiki/George_Weiss_(baseball)" title="George Weiss (baseball)">George Weiss</a>.</li> <li>January 14 – Former <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Baseball Hall of Fame</a> shortstop <a href="/wiki/Joe_Cronin" title="Joe Cronin">Joe Cronin</a>, 52, succeeds <a href="/wiki/Will_Harridge" title="Will Harridge">Will Harridge</a> as president of the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a>. Harridge, who had spent 28 years as the AL's chief executive, becomes board chairman. One day later, Hall of Fame field manager <a href="/wiki/Bucky_Harris" title="Bucky Harris">Bucky Harris</a>, 62, succeeds Cronin as general manager of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>.</li> <li>January 25 – MLB front-office shuffles continue as <a href="/wiki/John_McHale_(baseball)" title="John McHale (baseball)">John McHale</a>, 37, general manager of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> since April 1957, resigns to take a similar post with the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a>. Hall of Fame former catcher <a href="/wiki/Rick_Ferrell" title="Rick Ferrell">Rick Ferrell</a> takes over Detroit's GM job.</li> <li>January 30 – The <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Redlegs" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati Redlegs">Cincinnati Redlegs</a> trade catcher <a href="/wiki/Smoky_Burgess" title="Smoky Burgess">Smoky Burgess</a>, pitcher <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Haddix" title="Harvey Haddix">Harvey Haddix</a>, and third baseman <a href="/wiki/Don_Hoak" title="Don Hoak">Don Hoak</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> in exchange for third baseman <a href="/wiki/Frank_Thomas_(outfielder)" title="Frank Thomas (outfielder)">Frank Thomas</a>, pitcher <a href="/wiki/Whammy_Douglas" title="Whammy Douglas">Whammy Douglas</a>, outfielders <a href="/wiki/Jim_Pendleton" title="Jim Pendleton">Jim Pendleton</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Powers_(baseball)" title="John Powers (baseball)">Johnny Powers</a>, and cash considerations.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>February 7 – Baseball mourns all-time great <a href="/wiki/Nap_Lajoie" title="Nap Lajoie">Nap Lajoie</a> upon his death from pneumonia in <a href="/wiki/Daytona_Beach,_Florida" title="Daytona Beach, Florida">Daytona Beach, Florida</a> at 84. Second baseman Lajoie, the third man to exceed 3,000 career <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a>, was so famous that the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Naps" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Naps">Cleveland American League club</a> was known as the "Naps" during his 1902–1914 tenure. He was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Baseball Hall of Fame">Hall of Fame</a> in 1937. (See <i>Deaths</i> entry for this date below.)</li> <li>February 11 – Although <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> tensions remain high, Cincinnati's MLB franchise decides to return to its traditional identity, the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>. The club had changed its official moniker to <i><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Redlegs" class="mw-redirect" title="Cincinnati Redlegs">Cincinnati Redlegs</a></i> in April 1953 to disassociate itself from <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a>. Fans and media will intermittently refer to the team as the "Redlegs" into the early 1960s, however, and the word "Reds" will not return to the team's logo until a uniform makeover in 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>February 14 – The <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> sell the contract of <a href="/wiki/Whitey_Lockman" title="Whitey Lockman">Whitey Lockman</a> to the Baltimore Orioles.</li> <li>February 28 – <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Mantle" title="Mickey Mantle">Mickey Mantle</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> ends his holdout after one day. Mantle agrees to a salary of $72,000 and a bonus of $2,000. He had been asking the Yankees for $85,000 after batting .304 with 42 home runs and 97 RBI in 1958.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>March 10 – After five years out of the spotlight, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Veeck" title="Bill Veeck">Bill Veeck</a> returns to baseball, purchasing 54 percent majority interest in the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> from <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Comiskey_Rigney" title="Dorothy Comiskey Rigney">Dorothy Comiskey Rigney</a>. The transaction caps the long-running feud between Dorothy and her brother <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Comiskey" title="Chuck Comiskey">Chuck</a>, who owns the remaining 46%. It also marks the end of the Comiskey family's nearly six-decade-long control of the Pale Hose franchise.</li> <li>March 21 – <a href="/wiki/Larry_Doby" title="Larry Doby">Larry Doby</a>, future Hall of Famer and the first African-American to play in the American League, is traded by the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> in exchange for <a href="/wiki/Tito_Francona" title="Tito Francona">Tito Francona</a>.</li> <li>March 25 – In a trade that benefits both clubs, the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> obtain <a href="/wiki/Bill_White_(first_baseman)" title="Bill White (first baseman)">Bill White</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ray_Jablonski" title="Ray Jablonski">Ray Jablonski</a> from the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> for <a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(baseball)" title="Sam Jones (baseball)">"Toothpick" Sam Jones</a> and <a href="/wiki/Don_Choate" title="Don Choate">Don Choate</a>. Veteran hurler Jones, 33, will lead the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> in games won (21), shutouts (four) and earned run average (2.83) in 1959. White, a 25-year-old first baseman who as a Giant was caught between incumbent <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Cepeda" title="Orlando Cepeda">Orlando Cepeda</a> and prospect <a href="/wiki/Willie_McCovey" title="Willie McCovey">Willie McCovey</a> — both future Hall of Famers — becomes a regular and team leader with the Cardinals, who is selected for eight <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="Major League Baseball All-Star Game">All-Star Games</a>, wins six <a href="/wiki/Gold_Glove_Award" title="Gold Glove Award">Gold Glove Awards</a>, and plays a prominent role in the Redbirds' <a href="/wiki/1964_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1964 St. Louis Cardinals season">1964 world-championship season</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Racial_integration" title="Racial integration">racial integration</a> of their spring training living quarters. After his playing days, White achieves further prominence as a broadcaster for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> (1971–1988), then president of the National League (1989–1994).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April 10 – <a href="/wiki/Sal_Maglie" title="Sal Maglie">Sal Maglie</a>'s major league career comes to an end as the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> release the former 20-game winner right before the start of the season.</li> <li>April 11 – On Opening Day, <a href="/wiki/1959_Los_Angeles_Dodgers_season" title="1959 Los Angeles Dodgers season">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> pitcher <a href="/wiki/Don_Drysdale" title="Don Drysdale">Don Drysdale</a> hits a home run, becoming the only pitcher to hit more than one career homer in opening games. (He will hit 29 long balls over his 14-year career.) Drysdale's historic blast doesn't prevent the Dodgers from losing their game, 6–1, to the <a href="/wiki/1959_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1959 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs</a>.</li> <li>April 17 – <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>' <a href="/wiki/Al_Kaline" title="Al Kaline">Al Kaline</a> belts his 100th career home run.</li> <li>April 22 – The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a> 20–6 at <a href="/wiki/Municipal_Stadium_(Kansas_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal Stadium (Kansas City)">Municipal Stadium</a>. The White Sox score 11 of those runs in a wild seventh inning in which they collect only one hit. <a href="/wiki/Ray_Boone" title="Ray Boone">Ray Boone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Al_Smith_(outfielder)" title="Al Smith (outfielder)">Al Smith</a> lead off the inning by reaching on errors. <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Callison" title="Johnny Callison">Johnny Callison</a> then collects the hit, a single that scores Boone; on the play, Smith scores and Callison reaches third on a <a href="/wiki/Roger_Maris" title="Roger Maris">Roger Maris</a> error. Eight of the next nine runs score on ten bases on balls; Callison is hit by a pitch to force in the remaining run. The KC "wild men" are relievers <a href="/wiki/Tom_Gorman_(right-handed_pitcher)" title="Tom Gorman (right-handed pitcher)">Tom Gorman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Freeman_(baseball)" title="Mark Freeman (baseball)">Mark Freeman</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Brunet" title="George Brunet">George Brunet</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>May 3 – The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>, losers of 15 of their first 17 games, replace manager <a href="/wiki/Bill_Norman_(baseball)" title="Bill Norman (baseball)">Bill Norman</a> with <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Dykes" title="Jimmy Dykes">Jimmy Dykes</a>. For the veteran Dykes, the Tigers are the fourth big-league team he's managed since 1951. In his first day with the Tigers, his club sweeps a doubleheader from the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> at <a href="/wiki/Briggs_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Briggs Stadium">Briggs Stadium</a>, with renowned "Sunday slugger" <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Maxwell" title="Charlie Maxwell">Charlie Maxwell</a> belting four home runs. Under Dykes, Detroit will perk up to go 74–63 for the rest of 1959.</li> <li>May 10 – At <a href="/wiki/Forbes_Field" title="Forbes Field">Forbes Field</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Hearn" title="Jim Hearn">Jim Hearn</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> gives up two runs to the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> before the second game of a Sunday <a href="/wiki/Doubleheader_(baseball)" title="Doubleheader (baseball)">doubleheader</a> is suspended by curfew. On May 22, the Phillies release Hearn, ending the pitcher's 13-year MLB career. The suspended game is completed July 21, with the Pirates winning 6–4, and Hearn is tagged with the loss almost two months after he retired from baseball.</li> <li>May 12 – <a href="/wiki/Yogi_Berra" title="Yogi Berra">Yogi Berra</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> commits an <a href="/wiki/Error_(baseball)" title="Error (baseball)">error</a>, as his errorless streak of 148 games for a <a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">catcher</a> comes to an end in a New York 7–6 loss to the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> at <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium_(1923)" title="Yankee Stadium (1923)">Yankee Stadium</a>.</li> <li>May 20 – The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> lose to the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> 13–6 at <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium_(1923)" title="Yankee Stadium (1923)">Yankee Stadium</a>, the loss dropping the New Yorkers to last place in the American League—their first time in the cellar since May 23, <a href="/wiki/1940_in_baseball" title="1940 in baseball">1940</a>. The Yankees had won nine pennants over the previous ten years, as well as winning 103 games in <a href="/wiki/1954_in_baseball" title="1954 in baseball">1954</a>, the one year in that stretch when they didn't win the pennant (that year, they finished second to the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a>, who won 111). The Yankees will battle back in 1959 but finish third, 15 games behind the pennant-winning White Sox.</li> <li>May 26 – <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> pitcher <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Haddix" title="Harvey Haddix">Harvey Haddix</a> carries a <a href="/wiki/Perfect_game_(baseball)" title="Perfect game (baseball)">perfect game</a> into the 13th inning against the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a>, retiring 36 consecutive batters before <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Mantilla_Lamela" class="mw-redirect" title="Félix Mantilla Lamela">Félix Mantilla</a> reaches on a <a href="/wiki/Don_Hoak" title="Don Hoak">Don Hoak</a> error. Haddix would lose the game on a <a href="/wiki/Joe_Adcock" title="Joe Adcock">Joe Adcock</a> hit (a baserunning mistake caused it to be changed from a three-run home run to a one-run double) later in the inning.</li> <li>June 10 – <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> right-fielder <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Colavito" title="Rocky Colavito">Rocky Colavito</a> becomes the eighth player in Major League history to hit <a href="/wiki/MLB_hitters_with_four_home_runs_in_one_game" class="mw-redirect" title="MLB hitters with four home runs in one game">four home runs</a> in a game. He hits all four home runs in consecutive at-bats, as the Indians top the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a>, 11–8.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>June 8 – The <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> exchange right-handed pitchers, with Cincinnati obtaining <a href="/wiki/Jim_Brosnan" title="Jim Brosnan">Jim Brosnan</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hal_Jeffcoat" title="Hal Jeffcoat">Hal Jeffcoat</a>. The trade occurs as aspiring writer Brosnan, 29, is working on a breakthrough memoir, <i>The Long Season,</i> the first account of a baseball season as seen through the eyes of a player. Upon publication in 1960, the book is criticized by the baseball establishment, but well-received by critics.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>June 12 – The <a href="/wiki/Japanese_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame">Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame</a> opens in Tokyo.</li> <li>June 14 – <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Banks" title="Ernie Banks">Ernie Banks</a> hits 200th career home run helping <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> beat <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a> 6–0.</li> <li>June 18 – At <a href="/wiki/Memorial_Stadium_(Baltimore)" class="mw-redirect" title="Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)">Memorial Stadium</a>‚ <a href="/wiki/Chico_Carrasquel" title="Chico Carrasquel">Chico Carrasquel</a> <a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">drives in</a> two runs in both the eighth and ninth innings to give the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles" title="Baltimore Orioles">Baltimore Orioles</a> a 7–6 win over the visiting <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>.</li> <li>June 21 – At <a href="/wiki/Seals_Stadium" title="Seals Stadium">Seals Stadium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hank_Aaron" title="Hank Aaron">Hank Aaron</a> hits three home runs in the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves_(1953%E2%80%9365)" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee Braves (1953–65)">Milwaukee Braves</a>' 13–3 victory over the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a>. For Aaron, Major League Baseball's future home run king, it will be the only three-home run game of his career.</li> <li>June 30 – The <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> are involved in a bizarre play at <a href="/wiki/Wrigley_Field" title="Wrigley Field">Wrigley Field</a> in which two balls are in play at the same time. With one out in the fourth inning, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Musial" title="Stan Musial">Stan Musial</a> is at the plate with a 3–1 count. The next pitch from the Cubs' <a href="/wiki/Bob_Anderson_(baseball)" title="Bob Anderson (baseball)">Bob Anderson</a> evades catcher <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Taylor_(baseball)" title="Sammy Taylor (baseball)">Sammy Taylor</a> and rolls to the backstop. Home plate umpire <a href="/wiki/Vic_Delmore" title="Vic Delmore">Vic Delmore</a> calls ball four on Musial, much to the chagrin of Anderson and Taylor, both of whom argue that Musial had foul tipped the ball. With the ball still in play and Delmore arguing with both Anderson and Taylor, Musial attempts to run for second. Meanwhile, Cubs third baseman <a href="/wiki/Alvin_Dark" title="Alvin Dark">Alvin Dark</a> runs to the backstop and retrieves the ball despite it having ended up in the hands of field announcer <a href="/wiki/Pat_Pieper" title="Pat Pieper">Pat Pieper</a>. However, Delmore unknowingly pulls out a new ball and gives it to Taylor. Anderson sees Musial attempting to advance to second and throws the ball to second baseman <a href="/wiki/Tony_Taylor_(baseball)" title="Tony Taylor (baseball)">Tony Taylor</a>, only for it to sail into the outfield. At the same time, Dark throws the original ball to shortstop Ernie Banks. Musial sees Anderson's ball go over Tony Taylor's head and attempts to advance to third, unaware that Dark's throw has reached Banks, who tags Musial. After a delay, Musial is declared out. Both teams play the game under protest; the Cardinals drop theirs after defeating the Cubs 4–1.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>July 2 – <a href="/wiki/Pinky_Higgins" title="Pinky Higgins">Pinky Higgins</a>, manager of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> since 1955, is fired with his club 31–42 and ensconced in the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> basement. After coach <a href="/wiki/Rudy_York" title="Rudy York">Rudy York</a> handles the club July 3 in Baltimore, <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%931960)" title="Washington Senators (1901–1960)">Washington Senators</a> coach <a href="/wiki/Billy_Jurges" title="Billy Jurges">Billy Jurges</a>, the former standout <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League shortstop</a>, is named Higgins' replacement.</li> <li>July 7 – In the season's first <a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(first_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)">All-Star Game</a>, held at <a href="/wiki/Forbes_Field" title="Forbes Field">Forbes Field</a>, home of the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>, the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> tops the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> 5–4. The NL rallies for two eighth-inning runs, with key hits from <a href="/wiki/Willie_Mays" title="Willie Mays">Willie Mays</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hank_Aaron" title="Hank Aaron">Hank Aaron</a>, to defeat <a href="/wiki/Whitey_Ford" title="Whitey Ford">Whitey Ford</a>.</li> <li>July 8 – The <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> fire manager <a href="/wiki/Mayo_Smith" title="Mayo Smith">Mayo Smith</a> only 80 games into his first year, and replace him with former <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> skipper <a href="/wiki/Fred_Hutchinson" title="Fred Hutchinson">Fred Hutchinson</a>, who had been managing the Reds' <a href="/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)" title="Triple-A (baseball)">Triple-A</a> <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Rainiers" title="Seattle Rainiers">Seattle</a> affiliate.</li> <li>July 21 – In his MLB debut, <a href="/wiki/Pumpsie_Green" title="Pumpsie Green">Pumpsie Green</a> pinch-runs for veteran <a href="/wiki/Vic_Wertz" title="Vic Wertz">Vic Wertz</a> during the eighth inning of a <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> 2–1 loss at <a href="/wiki/Comiskey_Park" title="Comiskey Park">Comiskey Park</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>. Green is left stranded at first, then stays in the game and plays an inning of defense at shortstop. He becomes the first Black player to appear in an official game for the Red Sox, the last of the 16 big-league clubs prior to expansion to break the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_color_line" title="Baseball color line">color barrier</a>.</li> <li>July 27 – <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> <a href="/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">attorney</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Shea" title="William Shea">William Shea</a> announces the formation of a third major league, the <a href="/wiki/Continental_League" title="Continental League">Continental League</a>, to begin play in <a href="/wiki/1961_in_baseball" title="1961 in baseball">1961</a>. One of the charter teams for the league would be placed in New York. The Continental League will disband August 2, <a href="/wiki/1960_in_baseball" title="1960 in baseball">1960</a> on promises that four of its franchises would be accepted to the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> and <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> as expansion franchises.</li> <li>July 28: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> 4–3 behind southpaw <a href="/wiki/Billy_Pierce" title="Billy Pierce">Billy Pierce</a> at <a href="/wiki/Comiskey_Park" title="Comiskey Park">Comiskey Park</a>, enabling them to leapfrog the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> into first place in the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> standings. Although Cleveland will challenge them into late September, the White Sox hold on to take their first pennant in 40 years.</li> <li>The Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>, headed by Sen. <a href="/wiki/Estes_Kefauver" title="Estes Kefauver">Estes Kefauver</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>, holds hearings in Washington, D.C., for two bills that would change or codify baseball's anti-trust exemption. It is the fifth time in nine years that baseball has been investigated by the U.S. Congress.</li></ul></li> <li>July 30 – The red-hot <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a> win their tenth straight game—and 14th out of their last 16—by defeating the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%931960)" title="Washington Senators (1901–1960)">Washington Senators</a>, 4–1. The streak, which began July 14, enables the chronic <a href="/wiki/First_division_(baseball)" title="First division (baseball)">second-division</a> ball club to climb above .500 at 50–49 and will represent a rare high point in its dismal, 13-season tenure in Kansas City.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>August 3 – At the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Memorial_Coliseum" title="Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum">Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum</a>, the <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> defeats the <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> 5–3 in the second <a href="/wiki/1959_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game_(second_game)" title="1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (second game)">All-Star Game</a> of 1959. The Junior Circuit is powered by home runs from <a href="/wiki/Frank_Malzone" title="Frank Malzone">Frank Malzone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yogi_Berra" title="Yogi Berra">Yogi Berra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Colavito" title="Rocky Colavito">Rocky Colavito</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Frank_Robinson" title="Frank Robinson">Frank Robinson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Gilliam" title="Jim Gilliam">Jim Gilliam</a> homer for the Nationals. The winning pitcher is 20-year-old <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Walker" title="Jerry Walker">Jerry Walker</a>.</li> <li>August 5 – The <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%931960)" title="Washington Senators (1901–1960)">Washington Senators</a> lose their 18th straight game, 7–3, in the first game of a doubleheader against the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> at <a href="/wiki/Griffith_Stadium" title="Griffith Stadium">Griffith Stadium</a>. The Senators rebound to take the nightcap, 9–0, behind <a href="/wiki/Tex_Clevenger" title="Tex Clevenger">Tex Clevenger</a>'s seven-hitter, but they will drop four more games in a row. Washington is in the midst of a calamitous midsummer collapse that sees them lose 22 of 24 games and plunge from fifth place (July 17) to the basement of the eight-team <a href="/wiki/American_League" title="American League">American League</a> (August 9).</li> <li>August 18 – Hall of Fame executive <a href="/wiki/Branch_Rickey" title="Branch Rickey">Branch Rickey</a>, 77, in semi-retirement since October 1955, sells his minority interest in and resigns as chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> to become president of William Shea's <a href="/wiki/Continental_League" title="Continental League">Continental League</a>. The new loop already has granted franchises to Denver, Houston, Minneapolis–Saint Paul and Toronto, as well as New York City. Rickey and a committee of CL owners hold a summit meeting in New York with <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner of Baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Ford_Frick" title="Ford Frick">Ford Frick</a>, the AL and NL presidents, and a delegation of MLB owners to discuss the possible entry of the Continental circuit into Organized Baseball as a third major league.</li> <li>August 25 – The first-place <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> add left-handed power to their batting order by acquiring first baseman <a href="/wiki/Ted_Kluszewski" title="Ted Kluszewski">Ted Kluszewski</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> for outfielder <a href="/wiki/Harry_Simpson" title="Harry Simpson">Harry Simpson</a> and a minor leaguer. The trade will enable Kluszewski, nearly 35, to play in his first <a href="/wiki/1959_World_Series" title="1959 World Series">World Series</a>—in which he will star (.391, 3 HR, 10 RBI in six games) in a losing cause.</li> <li>August 30 – In his 50th appearance of the season, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> relief ace <a href="/wiki/Roy_Face" title="Roy Face">Roy Face</a> wins his 17th consecutive decision—without a loss—in a 7–6 triumph over the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> at <a href="/wiki/Forbes_Field" title="Forbes Field">Forbes Field</a>. Face finally loses a game in his 54th outing, against the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> September 11, but logs his 18th and final victory of 1959 on the 19th. His 18–1 mark yields a .947 <a href="/wiki/Winning_percentage" title="Winning percentage">winning percentage</a>, which still stands as the best among hurlers with 13 or more decisions.</li> <li>August 31 – <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> equals <a href="/wiki/Bob_Feller" title="Bob Feller">Bob Feller</a>'s record of 18 <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">strikeouts</a> in a nine-inning game during a 5–2 triumph over the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a>. Koufax also breaks <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Dean" title="Dizzy Dean">Dizzy Dean</a>'s <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> standard of 17 Ks, set in 1933.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>September 12 – <a href="/wiki/Ken_Boyer" title="Ken Boyer">Ken Boyer</a> of the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> triples and homers in a 6–4 victory over the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>, extending his hitting streak to 29 games, longest in the majors since 1950. The streak ends the next day.</li> <li>September 18 – A season-long feud with general manager "Frantic" <a href="/wiki/Frank_Lane" title="Frank Lane">Frank Lane</a> spurs <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> manager <a href="/wiki/Joe_Gordon" title="Joe Gordon">Joe Gordon</a> to announce that he will quit his post after the 1959 season ends. The Indians are still mathematically in pennant contention, although 5<small><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac"><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span></small> games behind the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a>.</li> <li>September 22: <ul><li>At <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Stadium" title="Cleveland Stadium">Cleveland Stadium</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">White Sox</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Indians</a> 4–2 to clinch the American League pennant. Back-to-back home runs from <a href="/wiki/Al_Smith_(outfielder)" title="Al Smith (outfielder)">Al Smith</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Rivera" title="Jim Rivera">Jim Rivera</a> in the sixth inning give eventual Cy Young Award winner <a href="/wiki/Early_Wynn" title="Early Wynn">Early Wynn</a> his 21st victory. The pennant is the first for the White Sox since <a href="/wiki/1919_in_baseball" title="1919 in baseball">1919</a>; that team went on to throw the <a href="/wiki/1919_World_Series" title="1919 World Series">World Series</a> in what would come to be known as the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal" title="Black Sox Scandal">Black Sox Scandal</a>.</li> <li>With Cleveland now eliminated from the race, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Lane" title="Frank Lane">Lane</a> fires <a href="/wiki/Joe_Gordon" title="Joe Gordon">Gordon</a> immediately. It's revealed the Lane has offered the Indians' 1960 managerial job to <a href="/wiki/Leo_Durocher" title="Leo Durocher">Leo Durocher</a>, former skipper of the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(MLB)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (MLB)">New York Giants</a> but now a "color commentator" on <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Game_of_the_Week" title="Major League Baseball Game of the Week">"Game of the Week"</a> telecasts.</li></ul></li> <li>September 23 – When contract negotiations break down between <a href="/wiki/Frank_Lane" title="Frank Lane">Lane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leo_Durocher" title="Leo Durocher">Durocher</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Indians</a>' general manager reverses course and rehires <a href="/wiki/Joe_Gordon" title="Joe Gordon">Joe Gordon</a> as his manager, giving him a two-year contract and a raise in salary. "I made a mistake," Lane tells the press. Gordon returns to the Tribe helm for 1960, but on August 3, Lane will fire Gordon again — part of a bizarre "trade" of managers with the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>.</li> <li>September 27 – A wild <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> pennant race comes down to the final day with three teams—the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> (each 85–68), and the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Giants" title="San Francisco Giants">San Francisco Giants</a> (83–69)—within reach of the championship. A three-way tie is possible, should the Giants win their doubleheader and their foes lose their single games. But the Giants' hopes are crushed when the Braves and Dodgers win and they're swept by the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>. Los Angeles and Milwaukee will continue their regular season with the <a href="/wiki/1959_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1959 National League tie-breaker series">third NL tie-breaker series</a> in 14 years, all of them involving the Dodgers.</li> <li>September 28 – <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Grimm" title="Charlie Grimm">Charlie Grimm</a>, known as "Jolly Cholly," is named to replace <a href="/wiki/Bob_Scheffing" title="Bob Scheffing">Bob Scheffing</a>, whose nickname is "Grump," as manager of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> for 1960. For the affable, 61-year-old Grimm, the appointment represents his third term as skipper of the Cubs, for whom he piloted NL champions in 1932, 1935 and 1945.</li> <li>September 28–29 – The <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a> in two straight games in a <a href="/wiki/One-game_playoff" title="One-game playoff">best-of-three playoff</a> series, 3–2 and 6–5, to reach the World Series. In the clinching contest, played in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Memorial_Coliseum" title="Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum">Los Angeles</a>, the Dodgers stage a stirring three-run, ninth-inning rally to tie the score at five, then plate the winning tally in the 12th on a single by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Furillo" title="Carl Furillo">Carl Furillo</a> and an error by Braves' shortstop <a href="/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Mantilla_(baseball)" title="Félix Mantilla (baseball)">Félix Mantilla</a>.</li> <li>September 30 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_DeWitt" title="Bill DeWitt">Bill DeWitt</a>, 57, former owner and general manager of the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> and currently a senior member of the <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner of Baseball</a>'s staff, becomes president and <i>de facto</i> GM of the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>October 1 – The Go-Go <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> change character at home and hammer the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> 11–0 in the first game of the <a href="/wiki/1959_World_Series" title="1959 World Series">1959 World Series</a>, as <a href="/wiki/Ted_Kluszewski" title="Ted Kluszewski">Ted Kluszewski</a> slugs two home runs and drives home five runs. Chicago's <a href="/wiki/Early_Wynn" title="Early Wynn">Early Wynn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Staley" title="Gerry Staley">Gerry Staley</a> combine for the shutout. <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> manager <a href="/wiki/Casey_Stengel" title="Casey Stengel">Casey Stengel</a>, sitting out only his second World Series since 1949, covers the game as a reporter.</li> <li>October 8 – The <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> defeat the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a>, 9–3, in Game 6 of the <a href="/wiki/1959_World_Series" title="1959 World Series">World Series</a> to win the franchise's second world championship — and first since moving from Brooklyn in 1958 — four games to two. The Dodgers build an 8–0 lead after four innings and hold on despite <a href="/wiki/Ted_Kluszewski" title="Ted Kluszewski">Ted Kluszewski</a>'s three-run home run. The round-tripper gives the slugger a new six-game RBI record of ten. The Dodgers' <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Essegian" title="Chuck Essegian">Chuck Essegian</a> hits his second pinch homer to establish a new record, later equalled by <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Carbo" title="Bernie Carbo">Bernie Carbo</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> in <a href="/wiki/1975_World_Series" title="1975 World Series">1975</a>. It is the first World Series in which no pitcher for either team pitches a complete game. Dodgers' relief pitcher <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sherry" title="Larry Sherry">Larry Sherry</a> is named <a href="/wiki/World_Series_MVP_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="World Series MVP Award">MVP</a>.</li> <li>October 21 – The Players Association approves two All-Star Games in <a href="/wiki/1960_in_baseball" title="1960 in baseball">1960</a>, to be held at <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Municipal_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Kansas City Municipal Stadium">Kansas City Municipal Stadium</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yankee_Stadium_(1923)" title="Yankee Stadium (1923)">Yankee Stadium</a>.</li> <li>October 24 – The <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves" title="Milwaukee Braves">Milwaukee Braves</a> appoint <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Dressen" title="Chuck Dressen">Chuck Dressen</a>, 64, their manager for 1960. He replaces another veteran pilot, 63-year-old <a href="/wiki/Fred_Haney" title="Fred Haney">Fred Haney</a>, who stepped down October 4 after leading the Braves to a <a href="/wiki/1957_World_Series" title="1957 World Series">World Series title (1957)</a>, <a href="/wiki/1958_Milwaukee_Braves_season" title="1958 Milwaukee Braves season">National League pennant (1958)</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/1959_National_League_tie-breaker_series" title="1959 National League tie-breaker series">flat-footed tie with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1959)</a> in successive seasons. Haney returns to <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, where a year later he becomes the first general manager and chief architect of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels" title="Los Angeles Angels">expansion Angels</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>November 4 – <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Banks" title="Ernie Banks">Ernie Banks</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/National_League_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National League Most Valuable Player Award">National League Most Valuable Player Award</a> for the second straight year with 232 points. <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Mathews" title="Eddie Mathews">Eddie Mathews</a> (189) and <a href="/wiki/Hank_Aaron" title="Hank Aaron">Hank Aaron</a> (174) of the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Braves_(1953%E2%80%9365)" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee Braves (1953–65)">Milwaukee Braves</a> finish second and third respectively.</li> <li>November 12 – <a href="/wiki/Nellie_Fox" title="Nellie Fox">Nellie Fox</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> wins the <a href="/wiki/American_League_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="American League Most Valuable Player Award">American League MVP Award</a> with 295 points. Teammates <a href="/wiki/Luis_Aparicio" title="Luis Aparicio">Luis Aparicio</a> (255) and <a href="/wiki/Early_Wynn" title="Early Wynn">Early Wynn</a> (123) finish second and third respectively.</li> <li>November 18 – The <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a> change managers, replacing <a href="/wiki/Harry_Craft" title="Harry Craft">Harry Craft</a> with <a href="/wiki/Bob_Elliott_(baseball)" title="Bob Elliott (baseball)">Bob Elliott</a>, 43, remembered as "Mister Team" and 1947 <a href="/wiki/National_League_Most_Valuable_Player" class="mw-redirect" title="National League Most Valuable Player">National League MVP</a> as the third baseman of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves" title="Boston Braves">Boston Braves</a>.</li> <li>November 21 – In the first inter-league trade without <a href="/wiki/Waivers_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Waivers (baseball)">waivers</a>, the NL <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> send first baseman <a href="/wiki/Jim_Marshall_(baseball)" title="Jim Marshall (baseball)">Jim Marshall</a> and pitcher <a href="/wiki/Dave_Hillman" title="Dave Hillman">Dave Hillman</a> to the AL <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> in exchange for first baseman <a href="/wiki/Dick_Gernert" title="Dick Gernert">Dick Gernert</a>. The new, annual inter-league trading period lasts from November 21 through December 15, parallel to the winter meetings, and it will be the only means for teams to trade players to the other major league without exposing them to waivers until 1973.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>December 9: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> trade pitcher <a href="/wiki/Dick_Hall_(baseball)" title="Dick Hall (baseball)">Dick Hall</a>, catcher <a href="/wiki/Hank_Foiles" title="Hank Foiles">Hank Foiles</a> and infielder <a href="/wiki/Ken_Hamlin_(baseball)" title="Ken Hamlin (baseball)">Ken Hamlin</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a> for catcher/utilityman <a href="/wiki/Hal_W._Smith" title="Hal W. Smith">Hal Smith</a>, who will play a key supporting role in the Bucs' <a href="/wiki/1960_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1960 Pittsburgh Pirates season">1960 world championship season</a> and its <a href="/wiki/1960_World_Series" title="1960 World Series">Game 7</a> win.</li> <li>In an effort to shore up their third base position, the defending AL champion <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> trade 20-year-old top prospect <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Callison" title="Johnny Callison">Johnny Callison</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> for veteran <a href="/wiki/Gene_Freese" title="Gene Freese">Gene Freese</a>. Outfielder Callison will blossom into a four-time National League All-Star; Freese spends only one season on the South Side before being traded away.</li></ul></li> <li>December 11 – In a seven-player transaction, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> trade <a href="/wiki/Hank_Bauer" title="Hank Bauer">Hank Bauer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Larsen" title="Don Larsen">Don Larsen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norm_Siebern" title="Norm Siebern">Norm Siebern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marv_Throneberry" title="Marv Throneberry">Marv Throneberry</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Athletics" title="Kansas City Athletics">Kansas City Athletics</a> in exchange for <a href="/wiki/Roger_Maris" title="Roger Maris">Roger Maris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_DeMaestri" title="Joe DeMaestri">Joe DeMaestri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kent_Hadley" title="Kent Hadley">Kent Hadley</a>. Maris proceeds to win the <a href="/wiki/American_League_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="American League Most Valuable Player Award">American League Most Valuable Player Award</a> in both 1960 and 1961, breaking <a href="/wiki/Babe_Ruth" title="Babe Ruth">Babe Ruth</a>'s 60-home-run record in the latter year. Maris' addition helps the Yankees win five AL pennants in a row.</li> <li>December 15 – During the final day of the new interleague trading period, the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> complete a trade headlined by two veteran second basemen. The Reds send four-time <a href="/wiki/National_League_(baseball)" title="National League (baseball)">National League</a> All-Star <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Temple" title="Johnny Temple">Johnny Temple</a> to Cleveland for second-sacker <a href="/wiki/Billy_Martin" title="Billy Martin">Billy Martin</a>, pitcher <a href="/wiki/Cal_McLish" title="Cal McLish">Cal McLish</a> and first baseman <a href="/wiki/Gordy_Coleman" title="Gordy Coleman">Gordy Coleman</a>. The Reds become Martin's fourth team since he was banished from the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> on June 15, 1957.</li> <li>December 22 – The <a href="/wiki/Continental_League" title="Continental League">Continental League</a> grows to seven teams with the admission of Dallas–Fort Worth; two weeks earlier, Atlanta had become the CL's sixth franchise.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Births">Births</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Births"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_2">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>January 5 – <a href="/wiki/Milt_Thompson_(baseball)" title="Milt Thompson (baseball)">Milt Thompson</a></li> <li>January 8 – <a href="/wiki/Craig_Stuart_Gerber" class="mw-redirect" title="Craig Stuart Gerber">Craig Gerber</a></li> <li>January 8 – <a href="/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Romero_(baseball)" title="Ramón Romero (baseball)">Ramón Romero</a></li> <li>January 9 – <a href="/wiki/Otis_Nixon" title="Otis Nixon">Otis Nixon</a></li> <li>January 10 – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Dotson" title="Richard Dotson">Richard Dotson</a></li> <li>January 11 – <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_McClendon" title="Lloyd McClendon">Lloyd McClendon</a></li> <li>January 14 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Keener" title="Jeff Keener">Jeff Keener</a></li> <li>January 16 – <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Buckley" title="Kevin Buckley">Kevin Buckley</a></li> <li>January 17 – <a href="/wiki/T._R._Bryden" title="T. R. Bryden">T. R. Bryden</a></li> <li>January 21 – <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Adams" title="Ricky Adams">Ricky Adams</a></li> <li>January 21 – <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Uribe" title="José Uribe">José Uribe</a></li> <li>January 27 – <a href="/wiki/Greg_Bargar" title="Greg Bargar">Greg Bargar</a></li> <li>January 30 – <a href="/wiki/La_Schelle_Tarver" title="La Schelle Tarver">La Schelle Tarver</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_2">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>February 4 – <a href="/wiki/Keith_Creel_(baseball)" title="Keith Creel (baseball)">Keith Creel</a></li> <li>February 4 – <a href="/wiki/Pat_Perry" title="Pat Perry">Pat Perry</a></li> <li>February 7 – <a href="/wiki/Carlos_Ponce_(baseball)" title="Carlos Ponce (baseball)">Carlos Ponce</a></li> <li>February 10 – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Fimple" title="Jack Fimple">Jack Fimple</a></li> <li>February 10 – <a href="/wiki/Al_Jones_(1980s_pitcher)" title="Al Jones (1980s pitcher)">Al Jones</a></li> <li>February 14 – <a href="/wiki/Alejandro_S%C3%A1nchez_(baseball)" title="Alejandro Sánchez (baseball)">Alejandro Sánchez</a></li> <li>February 15 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Hesketh" title="Joe Hesketh">Joe Hesketh</a></li> <li>February 19 – <a href="/wiki/Keith_Atherton" title="Keith Atherton">Keith Atherton</a></li> <li>February 19 – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Burke_(baseball)" title="Tim Burke (baseball)">Tim Burke</a></li> <li>February 20 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gullickson" title="Bill Gullickson">Bill Gullickson</a></li> <li>February 23 – <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Vargas" title="Eddie Vargas">Eddie Vargas</a></li> <li>February 24 – <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Kelly_(baseball)" title="Bryan Kelly (baseball)">Bryan Kelly</a></li> <li>February 25 – <a href="/wiki/Ken_Dayley" title="Ken Dayley">Ken Dayley</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_2">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>March 4 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Brown_(pitcher)" title="Mike Brown (pitcher)">Mike Brown</a></li> <li>March 5 – <a href="/wiki/Andy_Rincon" title="Andy Rincon">Andy Rincon</a></li> <li>March 6 – <a href="/wiki/Karl_Best" title="Karl Best">Karl Best</a></li> <li>March 9 – <a href="/wiki/Shooty_Babitt" title="Shooty Babitt">Shooty Babitt</a></li> <li>March 11 – <a href="/wiki/Phil_Bradley" title="Phil Bradley">Phil Bradley</a></li> <li>March 11 – <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Hensley" title="Chuck Hensley">Chuck Hensley</a></li> <li>March 13 – <a href="/wiki/Luis_Aguayo" title="Luis Aguayo">Luis Aguayo</a></li> <li>March 15 – <a href="/wiki/Harold_Baines" title="Harold Baines">Harold Baines</a></li> <li>March 16 – <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hudson_(baseball)" title="Charles Hudson (baseball)">Charles Hudson</a></li> <li>March 17 – <a href="/wiki/Danny_Ainge" title="Danny Ainge">Danny Ainge</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April_2">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April 2 – <a href="/wiki/Al_Nipper" title="Al Nipper">Al Nipper</a></li> <li>April 4 – <a href="/wiki/Pedro_Hern%C3%A1ndez_(infielder)" title="Pedro Hernández (infielder)">Pedro Hernández</a></li> <li>April 13 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Amelung" title="Ed Amelung">Ed Amelung</a></li> <li>April 18 – <a href="/wiki/Rich_Bordi" title="Rich Bordi">Rich Bordi</a></li> <li>April 18 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Eisenreich" title="Jim Eisenreich">Jim Eisenreich</a></li> <li>April 18 – <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Rasmussen_(baseball)" title="Dennis Rasmussen (baseball)">Dennis Rasmussen</a></li> <li>April 19 – <a href="/wiki/R._J._Reynolds_(baseball)" title="R. J. Reynolds (baseball)">R. J. Reynolds</a></li> <li>April 22 – <a href="/wiki/Terry_Francona" title="Terry Francona">Terry Francona</a></li> <li>April 25 – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Phillips" title="Tony Phillips">Tony Phillips</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_2">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>May 2 – <a href="/wiki/Brick_Smith" title="Brick Smith">Brick Smith</a></li> <li>May 3 – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Arnold_(baseball)" title="Tony Arnold (baseball)">Tony Arnold</a></li> <li>May 8 – <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Nelson_(baseball)" title="Ricky Nelson (baseball)">Ricky Nelson</a></li> <li>May 12 – <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Bass" title="Kevin Bass">Kevin Bass</a></li> <li>May 12 – <a href="/wiki/Willie_Lozado" title="Willie Lozado">Willie Lozado</a></li> <li>May 14 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Greer" title="Brian Greer">Brian Greer</a></li> <li>May 16 – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Patterson_(baseball)" title="Bob Patterson (baseball)">Bob Patterson</a></li> <li>May 16 – <a href="/wiki/Mitch_Webster" title="Mitch Webster">Mitch Webster</a></li> <li>May 26 – <a href="/wiki/Dann_Bilardello" title="Dann Bilardello">Dann Bilardello</a></li> <li>May 27 – <a href="/wiki/Ron_Tingley" title="Ron Tingley">Ron Tingley</a></li> <li>May 28 – <a href="/wiki/Steve_Jeltz" title="Steve Jeltz">Steve Jeltz</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_2">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>June 6 – <a href="/wiki/Doug_Frobel" title="Doug Frobel">Doug Frobel</a></li> <li>June 8 – <a href="/wiki/Britt_Burns" title="Britt Burns">Britt Burns</a></li> <li>June 11 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Davis_(baseball)" title="Mike Davis (baseball)">Mike Davis</a></li> <li>June 11 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Gorman" title="Brian Gorman">Brian Gorman</a></li> <li>June 25 – <a href="/wiki/Alejandro_Pe%C3%B1a" title="Alejandro Peña">Alejandro Peña</a></li> <li>June 27 – <a href="/wiki/Roy_Johnson_(1980s_outfielder)" title="Roy Johnson (1980s outfielder)">Roy Johnson</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July_2">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>July 1 – <a href="/wiki/Tony_Walker_(outfielder)" title="Tony Walker (outfielder)">Tony Walker</a></li> <li>July 3 – <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Kepshire" title="Kurt Kepshire">Kurt Kepshire</a></li> <li>July 11 – <a href="/wiki/Bert_Pe%C3%B1a" title="Bert Peña">Bert Peña</a></li> <li>July 13 – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Brown_(baseball)" title="Mark Brown (baseball)">Mark Brown</a></li> <li>July 21 – <a href="/wiki/Rich_Barnes" title="Rich Barnes">Rich Barnes</a></li> <li>July 21 – <a href="/wiki/Mark_Williamson_(baseball)" title="Mark Williamson (baseball)">Mark Williamson</a></li> <li>July 22 – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Porter_(baseball)" title="Bob Porter (baseball)">Bob Porter</a></li> <li>July 22 – <a href="/wiki/DeWayne_Vaughn" title="DeWayne Vaughn">DeWayne Vaughn</a></li> <li>July 25 – <a href="/wiki/Matt_Williams_(right-handed_pitcher)" title="Matt Williams (right-handed pitcher)">Matt Williams</a></li> <li>July 27 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_DeSa" title="Joe DeSa">Joe DeSa</a></li> <li>July 29 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_LaPoint" title="Dave LaPoint">Dave LaPoint</a></li> <li>July 30 – <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Horton" title="Ricky Horton">Ricky Horton</a></li> <li>July 30 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Jones_(1980s_pitcher)" title="Mike Jones (1980s pitcher)">Mike Jones</a></li> <li>July 31 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Bielecki" title="Mike Bielecki">Mike Bielecki</a></li> <li>July 31 – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Johnson_(catcher)" title="Bob Johnson (catcher)">Bob Johnson</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August_2">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>August 3 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Gott" title="Jim Gott">Jim Gott</a></li> <li>August 3 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Jeffcoat" title="Mike Jeffcoat">Mike Jeffcoat</a></li> <li>August 8 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Meier" title="Dave Meier">Dave Meier</a></li> <li>August 9 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Adduci_(baseball,_born_1959)" title="Jim Adduci (baseball, born 1959)">Jim Adduci</a></li> <li>August 13 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Niedenfuer" title="Tom Niedenfuer">Tom Niedenfuer</a></li> <li>August 14 – <a href="/wiki/Don_Carman" title="Don Carman">Don Carman</a></li> <li>August 14 – <a href="/wiki/Dale_Scott" title="Dale Scott">Dale Scott</a></li> <li>August 17 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Moronko" title="Jeff Moronko">Jeff Moronko</a></li> <li>August 17 – <a href="/wiki/Brad_Wellman" title="Brad Wellman">Brad Wellman</a></li> <li>August 18 – <a href="/wiki/Terry_Blocker" title="Terry Blocker">Terry Blocker</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September_2">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>September 2 – <a href="/wiki/Drungo_Hazewood" title="Drungo Hazewood">Drungo Hazewood</a></li> <li>September 5 – <a href="/wiki/Jamie_Nelson" title="Jamie Nelson">Jamie Nelson</a></li> <li>September 8 – <a href="/wiki/Glen_Cook_(baseball)" title="Glen Cook (baseball)">Glen Cook</a></li> <li>September 9 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Foley" title="Tom Foley">Tom Foley</a></li> <li>September 10 – <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Robbins_(baseball)" title="Bruce Robbins (baseball)">Bruce Robbins</a></li> <li>September 12 – <a href="/wiki/Scotti_Madison" title="Scotti Madison">Scotti Madison</a></li> <li>September 16 – <a href="/wiki/Tim_Raines" title="Tim Raines">Tim Raines</a></li> <li>September 18 – <a href="/wiki/Ryne_Sandberg" title="Ryne Sandberg">Ryne Sandberg</a></li> <li>September 21 – <a href="/wiki/Danny_Cox_(baseball)" title="Danny Cox (baseball)">Danny Cox</a></li> <li>September 22 – <a href="/wiki/Wally_Backman" title="Wally Backman">Wally Backman</a></li> <li>September 22 – <a href="/wiki/Lee_Graham" title="Lee Graham">Lee Graham</a></li> <li>September 22 – <a href="/wiki/John_Stefero" title="John Stefero">John Stefero</a></li> <li>September 23 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Winn" title="Jim Winn">Jim Winn</a></li> <li>September 25 – <a href="/wiki/Geno_Petralli" title="Geno Petralli">Geno Petralli</a></li> <li>September 26 – <a href="/wiki/Rich_Gedman" title="Rich Gedman">Rich Gedman</a></li> <li>September 26 – <a href="/wiki/J._P._Ricciardi" title="J. P. Ricciardi">J. P. Ricciardi</a></li> <li>September 28 – <a href="/wiki/Todd_Worrell" title="Todd Worrell">Todd Worrell</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October_2">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>October 2 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Beard" title="Dave Beard">Dave Beard</a></li> <li>October 5 – <a href="/wiki/Rod_Allen" title="Rod Allen">Rod Allen</a></li> <li>October 6 – <a href="/wiki/Oil_Can_Boyd" title="Oil Can Boyd">Oil Can Boyd</a></li> <li>October 6 – <a href="/wiki/Greg_Walker_(baseball)" title="Greg Walker (baseball)">Greg Walker</a></li> <li>October 8 – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Hardy_(pitcher)" title="Jack Hardy (pitcher)">Jack Hardy</a></li> <li>October 8 – <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Little_(baseball)" title="Bryan Little (baseball)">Bryan Little</a></li> <li>October 8 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Morgan_(baseball)" title="Mike Morgan (baseball)">Mike Morgan</a></li> <li>October 9 – <a href="/wiki/Ray_Krawczyk" title="Ray Krawczyk">Ray Krawczyk</a></li> <li>October 10 – <a href="/wiki/Don_Gordon_(baseball)" title="Don Gordon (baseball)">Don Gordon</a></li> <li>October 10 – <a href="/wiki/Les_Straker" title="Les Straker">Les Straker</a></li> <li>October 10 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Weaver_(outfielder)" title="Jim Weaver (outfielder)">Jim Weaver</a></li> <li>October 11 – <a href="/wiki/Pat_Dodson_(baseball)" title="Pat Dodson (baseball)">Pat Dodson</a></li> <li>October 16 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Harper" title="Brian Harper">Brian Harper</a></li> <li>October 16 – <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McReynolds" title="Kevin McReynolds">Kevin McReynolds</a></li> <li>October 20 – <a href="/wiki/Don_Heinkel" title="Don Heinkel">Don Heinkel</a></li> <li>October 21 – <a href="/wiki/George_Bell_(outfielder)" title="George Bell (outfielder)">George Bell</a></li> <li>October 23 – <a href="/wiki/George_Hinshaw" title="George Hinshaw">George Hinshaw</a></li> <li>October 24 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Brewer_(baseball)" title="Mike Brewer (baseball)">Mike Brewer</a></li> <li>October 24 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Johnson_(1987%E2%80%9393_pitcher)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dave Johnson (1987–93 pitcher)">Dave Johnson</a></li> <li>October 24 – <a href="/wiki/Junior_Ortiz" title="Junior Ortiz">Junior Ortiz</a></li> <li>October 29 – <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Barfield" title="Jesse Barfield">Jesse Barfield</a></li> <li>October 30 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Leeper" title="Dave Leeper">Dave Leeper</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November_2">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>November 5 – <a href="/wiki/Craig_McMurtry" title="Craig McMurtry">Craig McMurtry</a></li> <li>November 5 – <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Moseby" title="Lloyd Moseby">Lloyd Moseby</a></li> <li>November 6 – <a href="/wiki/Leo_Hern%C3%A1ndez" title="Leo Hernández">Leo Hernández</a></li> <li>November 7 – <a href="/wiki/Rich_Rodas" title="Rich Rodas">Rich Rodas</a></li> <li>November 13 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Shipanoff" title="Dave Shipanoff">Dave Shipanoff</a></li> <li>November 17 – <a href="/wiki/Brad_Havens" title="Brad Havens">Brad Havens</a></li> <li>November 17 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Milner" title="Brian Milner">Brian Milner</a></li> <li>November 18 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Heathcock" title="Jeff Heathcock">Jeff Heathcock</a></li> <li>November 21 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Barkley" title="Jeff Barkley">Jeff Barkley</a></li> <li>November 21 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Terry" title="Scott Terry">Scott Terry</a></li> <li>November 23 – <a href="/wiki/Brook_Jacoby" title="Brook Jacoby">Brook Jacoby</a></li> <li>November 24 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_Dunbar" title="Tom Dunbar">Tom Dunbar</a></li> <li>November 26 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Moore_(baseball)" title="Mike Moore (baseball)">Mike Moore</a></li> <li>November 28 – <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Datz" title="Jeff Datz">Jeff Datz</a></li> <li>November 29 – <a href="/wiki/Brian_Holton" title="Brian Holton">Brian Holton</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_2">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>December 6 – <a href="/wiki/Larry_Sheets" title="Larry Sheets">Larry Sheets</a></li> <li>December 16 – <a href="/wiki/Paul_Noce" title="Paul Noce">Paul Noce</a></li> <li>December 17 – <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Clutterbuck" title="Bryan Clutterbuck">Bryan Clutterbuck</a></li> <li>December 17 – <a href="/wiki/Marvell_Wynne_(baseball)" title="Marvell Wynne (baseball)">Marvell Wynne</a></li> <li>December 22 – <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Isales" title="Orlando Isales">Orlando Isales</a></li> <li>December 23 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Eufemia" title="Frank Eufemia">Frank Eufemia</a></li> <li>December 29 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_Brown_(1980s_outfielder)" title="Mike Brown (1980s outfielder)">Mike Brown</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deaths">Deaths</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Deaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_3">January</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: January"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>January   1 – <a href="/wiki/Neck_Stanley" title="Neck Stanley">Neck Stanley</a>, 53, left-hander whose pitching career in the Negro leagues spanned 1928 to 1948 and included 12 seasons as a member of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Black_Yankees" title="New York Black Yankees">New York Black Yankees</a>.</li> <li>January   2 – <a href="/wiki/Bert_James_(baseball)" title="Bert James (baseball)">Bert James</a>, 72, outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/1909_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1909 St. Louis Cardinals season">1909 St. Louis Cardinals</a>.</li> <li>January   8 – <a href="/wiki/Harley_Dillinger" title="Harley Dillinger">Harley Dillinger</a>, 64, pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Naps" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Naps">Cleveland Naps</a> in <a href="/wiki/1914_Cleveland_Naps_season" title="1914 Cleveland Naps season">its 1914 season</a>.</li> <li>January 14 – <a href="/wiki/John_Ganzel" title="John Ganzel">John Ganzel</a>, 84, player-manager who played at first base for five major league teams in seven seasons and for several minor league clubs in 14 seasons, managing also the <a href="/wiki/1908_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1908 Cincinnati Reds season">1908 Cincinnati Reds</a> and during 16 seasons in the minors, while being credited as the first player to hit one home run in the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees#1903–1912:_Move_to_New_York_and_the_Highlanders_years" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees franchise history</a> as a member of the <a href="/wiki/1903_New_York_Highlanders_season" title="1903 New York Highlanders season">1903 New York Highlanders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>January 21 – <a href="/wiki/Hooks_Wiltse" title="Hooks Wiltse">Hooks Wiltse</a>, 79, crafty left-handed <a href="/wiki/Curveball" title="Curveball">curveball</a> specialist, who pitched for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Tip-Tops" title="Brooklyn Tip-Tops">Brooklyn Tip-Tops</a> over twelve seasons from 1904 to 1915, collecting a career record of 139-90 and 2.47 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">ERA</a> in 357 games, including a 12-0 record in his first dozen decisions, two 20-win seasons, 27 <a href="/wiki/Shutout" title="Shutout">shutouts</a>, 152 <a href="/wiki/Complete_game" title="Complete game">complete games</a>, and a 10-inning <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> in 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>January 22 – <a href="/wiki/Ken_Williams_(baseball)" title="Ken Williams (baseball)">Ken Williams</a>, 68, left fielder whose 14-season major league career included stints with the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> spanning 1915–1929, leading the American League with 39 <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home runs</a> and 155 <a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">RBI</a> in 1922, while adding 39 <a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">stolen bases</a> to become the first big leaguer to reach the <a href="/wiki/30%E2%80%9330_club" title="30–30 club">30 HR/30 SB plateau</a> in the same season.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>January 24 – <a href="/wiki/George_Payne_(baseball)" title="George Payne (baseball)">George Payne</a>, 69, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1920_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1920 Chicago White Sox season">1920 Chicago White Sox</a>.</li> <li>January 28 – <a href="/wiki/Walter_Beall" title="Walter Beall">Walter Beall</a>, 59, relief pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> and <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%931960)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Washington Senators (1901–1960)">Washington Senators</a> spanning five seasons from 1924 to 1929, being also a member of Yankees teams that won American League pennants in 1926 and 1927.</li> <li>January 30 – <a href="/wiki/Toots_Shultz" title="Toots Shultz">Toots Shultz</a>, 70, pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> in parts of two seasons from 1911-12.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_3">February</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: February"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>February   7 – <a href="/wiki/Nap_Lajoie" title="Nap Lajoie">Nap Lajoie</a>, 84, Hall of Fame second baseman and manager whose 21-year career from 1896 to 1916 included stints with the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Bronchos" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Bronchos">Cleveland Bronchos</a>/<a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Naps" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Naps">Naps</a>; posted a .338/.380/.466 <a href="/wiki/Slash_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Slash line">batting line</a> with 3,243 <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a> and 380 <a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">stolen bases</a> in his career; won five American League batting crowns, including a modern-era record with a .426 <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batting average</a> in 1901, when he hit 14 <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home runs</a> and collected 125 <a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">runs batted in</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Triple_Crown_(baseball)#Triple_Crown_winners" title="Triple Crown (baseball)">first Triple Crown winner in American League history</a>; he won two more RBI titles and compiled 17 seasons with a .300 average or better; in the field, he led in <a href="/wiki/Putout" title="Putout">putouts</a> five times, <a href="/wiki/Assist_(baseball)" title="Assist (baseball)">assists</a> three times, <a href="/wiki/Double_play" title="Double play">double plays</a> five times and <a href="/wiki/Fielding_percentage" title="Fielding percentage">fielding percentage</a> four times; became player/manager for the Bronchos in 1903, with the team renaming itself the <i>Naps</i> in his honor through 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>February 12 – <a href="/wiki/Dode_Paskert" title="Dode Paskert">Dode Paskert</a>, 77, one of the finest defensive center fielders of the dead-ball era and a reliable <a href="/wiki/Leadoff_hitter" title="Leadoff hitter">leadoff hitter</a> who played from 1907 through 1921 for four National League clubs, batting <a href="/wiki/Batting_order_(baseball)" title="Batting order (baseball)">third in the lineup</a> in each game of the <a href="/wiki/1915_World_Series" title="1915 World Series">1915 World Series</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>, while batting <a href="/wiki/Batting_order_(baseball)" title="Batting order (baseball)">clean-up</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> in each game of the <a href="/wiki/1918_World_Series" title="1918 World Series">1918 World Series</a>, also against the Red Sox.</li> <li>February 14 – <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Higgins_(baseball)" title="Eddie Higgins (baseball)">Eddie Higgins</a>, 70, pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1909 to 1910.</li> <li>February 15 – <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Caldwell_(American_sportsman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bruce Caldwell (American sportsman)">Bruce Caldwell</a>, 53, two-sport athlete who played as an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball for the <a href="/wiki/1928_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1928 Cleveland Indians season">1928 Cleveland Indians</a> and <a href="/wiki/1932_Brooklyn_Dodgers_season" title="1932 Brooklyn Dodgers season">1932 Brooklyn Dodgers</a>, as well as a <a href="/wiki/Running_back" title="Running back">running back</a> in the National Football League for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> in 1928.</li> <li>February 15 – <a href="/wiki/Lefty_Houtz" title="Lefty Houtz">Lefty Houtz</a>, 83, 19th century third baseman for the <a href="/wiki/1899_Cincinnati_Reds_season" title="1899 Cincinnati Reds season">1899 Cincinnati Reds</a>.</li> <li>February 16 – <a href="/wiki/Ted_Reed" title="Ted Reed">Ted Reed</a>, 68, third baseman who played for the <a href="/wiki/Newark_Pepper" class="mw-redirect" title="Newark Pepper">Newark Pepper</a> of the outlaw <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a> in its 1915 season.</li> <li>February 20 – <a href="/wiki/William_Pierson_(baseball)" title="William Pierson (baseball)">William Pierson</a>, 59, pitcher who played with the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> in parts of three seasons spanning 1918–1924.</li> <li>February 21 – <a href="/wiki/Hunter_Hill" title="Hunter Hill">Hunter Hill</a>, 79, third baseman who played for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a> over three seasons from 1903 and 1905.</li> <li>February 26 – <a href="/wiki/Howie_Fitzgerald" title="Howie Fitzgerald">Howie Fitzgerald</a>, 56, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox in parts of the 1922, 1924, and 1926 seasons.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_3">March</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: March"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>March   7 – <a href="/wiki/John_Glaiser" title="John Glaiser">John Glaiser</a>, 64, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1920_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1920 Detroit Tigers season">1920 Detroit Tigers</a>.</li> <li>March   8 – <a href="/wiki/Don_Flinn" title="Don Flinn">Don Flinn</a>, 66, backup outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/1917_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1917 Pittsburgh Pirates season">1917 Pittsburgh Pirates</a>.</li> <li>March   8 – <a href="/wiki/Ormsby_Roy" title="Ormsby Roy">Ormsby Roy</a>, 54, infielder who appeared for the <a href="/wiki/Homestead_Grays" title="Homestead Grays">Homestead Grays</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Crawfords" title="Pittsburgh Crawfords">Pittsburgh Crawfords</a> of the Negro leagues between 1929 and 1932.</li> <li>March   9 – <a href="/wiki/Fin_Wilson" title="Fin Wilson">Fin Wilson</a>, 70, pitcher who played from 1914 to 1915 for the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Tip-Tops" title="Brooklyn Tip-Tops">Brooklyn Tip-Tops</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a>.</li> <li>March 11 – <a href="/wiki/Dinty_Gearin" title="Dinty Gearin">Dinty Gearin</a>, 61, pitcher who played with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Boston Braves</a> in a span of two seasons from 1923 to 1924.</li> <li>March 15 – <a href="/wiki/Richard_Muckerman" title="Richard Muckerman">Richard Muckerman</a>, 62, principal owner of the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> from 1945 through 1948.</li> <li>March 16 – <a href="/wiki/Ben_Shaw_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ben Shaw (baseball)">Ben Shaw</a>, 65, catcher and first baseman who played from 1917 to 1918 for the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>.</li> <li>March 17 – <a href="/wiki/Howard_Ehmke" title="Howard Ehmke">Howard Ehmke</a>, 64, pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Blues" title="Buffalo Blues">Buffalo Blues</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> in 15 seasons between 1915 and 1930, while compiling six 15-win seasons with a career-high 20 victories for the Red Sox in 1923, including a <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> in the same season, and later starting Game One of the <a href="/wiki/1929_World_Series" title="1929 World Series">1929 World Series</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Connie_Mack" title="Connie Mack">Connie Mack</a>'s Athletics against the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>, throwing a <a href="/wiki/Complete_game" title="Complete game">complete game</a> victory and <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">striking out</a> a then series record 13 en route to the series championship.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>March 29 – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Allen_(baseball)" title="Johnny Allen (baseball)">Johnny Allen</a>, 53, fiercely competitive pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> over 13 seasons from 1932 through 1944, who was a member of the <a href="/wiki/1932_World_Series" title="1932 World Series">1932 World Series champion Yankees</a>, earned the <a href="/wiki/Sporting_News_MLB_Player_of_the_Year_Award#Winners" title="Sporting News MLB Player of the Year Award">1937 Sporting News Player of the Year Award</a> after a 15–1 season with Cleveland, and was selected to the <a href="/wiki/1938_MLB_All-Star_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1938 MLB All-Star Game">1938 MLB All-Star Game</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April_3">April</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: April"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April   5 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Bruggy" title="Frank Bruggy">Frank Bruggy</a>, 67, catcher whose 14-year career included stints with the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> spanning five seasons from 1921 to 1925.</li> <li>April   7 – <a href="/wiki/Johnson_Fry" title="Johnson Fry">Johnson Fry</a>, 65, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1923_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1923 Cleveland Indians season">1923 Cleveland Indians</a>.</li> <li>April 14 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Harter" title="Frank Harter">Frank Harter</a>, 72, pitcher who played from with the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> from 1912–13 and for the <a href="/wiki/Newark_Peppers" title="Newark Peppers">Indianapolis Hoosiers</a> of the outlaw <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a> in 1914.</li> <li>April 15 – <a href="/wiki/Win_Clark" title="Win Clark">Win Clark</a>, 84, 19th century infielder who played for the <a href="/wiki/1897_Louisville_Colonels_season" title="1897 Louisville Colonels season">1897 Louisville Colonels</a>.</li> <li>April 17 – <a href="/wiki/Fred_Brainard" title="Fred Brainard">Fred Brainard</a>, 67, corner infielder and shortstop for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> in a span of three seasons from 1914–16, who later played and managed for the <a href="/wiki/Newark_Bears_(1926%E2%80%931949)" class="mw-redirect" title="Newark Bears (1926–1949)">Newark Bears</a> of the International League.</li> <li>April 21 – <a href="/wiki/Don_Black_(baseball)" title="Don Black (baseball)">Don Black</a>, 41, hard-throwing pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> over six seasons from 1943 through 1948, whose career ended when he suffered a <a href="/wiki/Brain_hemorrhage" class="mw-redirect" title="Brain hemorrhage">brain hemorrhage</a> in a ball game, retiring with a 35-54 record, a 3-0 one-hitter game against the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> in his rookie season,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a 3-0 <a href="/wiki/No-hitter" title="No-hitter">no-hitter</a> over his former Athletics team in 1947, while defeating fellow <a href="/wiki/Bill_McCahan" title="Bill McCahan">Bill McCahan</a>, himself a no-hit pitcher in the same season.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>April 21 – <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Simpson_(baseball)" title="Clarence Simpson (baseball)">Clarence Simpson</a>, 53, outfielder who appeared for the <a href="/wiki/Akron_Grays" class="mw-redirect" title="Akron Grays">Akron Grays</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Giants" title="Cleveland Giants">Cleveland Giants</a> of the Negro National League in 1933.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May_3">May</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: May"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>May   1 – <a href="/wiki/Fritz_Henrich" title="Fritz Henrich">Fritz Henrich</a>, 59, backup outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/1924_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1924 Philadelphia Phillies season">1924 Philadelphia Phillies</a>.</li> <li>May   1 – <a href="/wiki/Branch_Russell" title="Branch Russell">Branch Russell</a>, 63, stalwart outfielder whose decade-long tenure (1922–1931) with the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Stars_(baseball)" title="St. Louis Stars (baseball)">St. Louis Stars</a> of the Negro National League included a stint as playing manager of the 1926 Stars.</li> <li>May   3 – <a href="/wiki/Willy_Fetzer" class="mw-redirect" title="Willy Fetzer">Willy Fetzer</a>, 74, three-sport college athlete and head coach during more than a decade, who also played professional baseball with the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> of the American League in 1906, and six seasons in Minor League Baseball spanning 1905–1910.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>May   5 – <a href="/wiki/Verne_Clemons" title="Verne Clemons">Verne Clemons</a>, 67, backup catcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> over parts of seven seasons between 1916 and 1924.</li> <li>May   5 – <a href="/wiki/George_Harney_(baseball)" title="George Harney (baseball)">George Harney</a>, 68, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_American_Giants" title="Chicago American Giants">Chicago American Giants</a> of the Negro National League over eight seasons between 1923 and 1931; led NNL in shutouts (1924) and saves (1926, 1927); player-manager of American Giants for part of 1928.</li> <li>May   6 – <a href="/wiki/Vance_McIlree" title="Vance McIlree">Vance McIlree</a>, 61, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1921_Washington_Senators_season" title="1921 Washington Senators season">1921 Washington Senators</a>.</li> <li>May   6 – <a href="/wiki/Al_Scheer" title="Al Scheer">Al Scheer</a>, 70, outfielder who played with the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Superbas" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn Superbas">Brooklyn Superbas</a> in 1913 and for the <a href="/wiki/Newark_Peppers" title="Newark Peppers">Indianapolis Hoosiers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newark_Peppers" title="Newark Peppers">Newark Peppers</a> from 1914 to 1915.</li> <li>May   8 – <a href="/wiki/Basilio_Cueria" title="Basilio Cueria">Basilio Cueria</a>, 60, first baseman/outfielder for the 1922 <a href="/wiki/Cuban_Stars_West" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuban Stars West">Cuban Stars West</a> of the Negro National League.</li> <li>May 15 – <a href="/wiki/Tiny_Baldwin" title="Tiny Baldwin">Tiny Baldwin</a>, 55, second baseman/shortstop for the <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_ABCs" title="Indianapolis ABCs">Indianapolis ABCs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Elites" title="Cleveland Elites">Cleveland Elites</a> and <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Stars" title="Detroit Stars">Detroit Stars</a> of the Negro National League in 1925 and 1926.</li> <li>May 15 – <a href="/wiki/Jake_Hewitt" title="Jake Hewitt">Jake Hewitt</a>, 88, 19th century pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> in <a href="/wiki/1895_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1895 Pittsburgh Pirates season">its 1895 season</a>.</li> <li>May 15 – <a href="/wiki/Fred_Johnston_(baseball)" title="Fred Johnston (baseball)">Fred Johnston</a>, 60, infielder who made four game appearances for the <a href="/wiki/1924_Brooklyn_Robins_season" title="1924 Brooklyn Robins season">1924 Brooklyn Robins</a>.</li> <li>May 18 – <a href="/wiki/John_Hummel" title="John Hummel">John Hummel</a>, 76, valuable <a href="/wiki/Utility_player" title="Utility player">utility man</a> and aggressive <a href="/wiki/Base_running" title="Base running">base runner</a> who played for the <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Brooklyn_Dodgers" class="mw-redirect" title="History of the Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Superbas, Dodgers and Robins</a> teams from 1905 through 1915 before joining the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> in 1918, compiling a .254/.316/.352 <a href="/wiki/Slash_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Slash line">batting line</a> career with 991 <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a> and 119 <a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">stolen bases</a>, while appearing in 548 games at <a href="/wiki/Second_base" class="mw-redirect" title="Second base">second base</a>, 293 in three <a href="/wiki/Outfield" title="Outfield">outfield</a> positions, 160 at <a href="/wiki/First_base" class="mw-redirect" title="First base">first base</a>, and 74 at <a href="/wiki/Shortstop" title="Shortstop">shortstop</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>May 18 – <a href="/wiki/Gene_Packard" title="Gene Packard">Gene Packard</a>, 71, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Packers" title="Kansas City Packers">Kansas City Packers</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> in a span of eight seasons from 1912 through 1919, a twice 20-game winner in the <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a> with the Packers from 1914–15, who in 1918 allowed 12 runs in a game with St. Louis and did not take the loss, setting a record that was not matched for 90 years, until <a href="/wiki/Scott_Feldman_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scott Feldman (baseball)">Scott Feldman</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Rangers_(baseball)" title="Texas Rangers (baseball)">Texas Rangers</a> did the same <a href="/wiki/2008_in_baseball#August" title="2008 in baseball">during the 2008 season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>May 21 – <a href="/wiki/Carter_Elliott" title="Carter Elliott">Carter Elliott</a>, 65, shortstop for the <a href="/wiki/1921_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1921 Chicago Cubs season">1921 Chicago Cubs</a>.</li> <li>May 22 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Biscan" title="Frank Biscan">Frank Biscan</a>, 39, pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> in parts of three seasons from 1942 to 1949, one of many ballplayers whose career was interrupted by World War II.</li> <li>May 22 – <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Sheehan_(baseball)" title="Tommy Sheehan (baseball)">Tommy Sheehan</a>, 81, third baseman who played for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Superbas" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn Superbas">Brooklyn Superbas</a> in a span of four seasons from 1900 to 1908.</li> <li>May 25 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Brain" title="Dave Brain">Dave Brain</a>, 80, English-born third baseman and shortstop whose career spanned only seven years, playing for seven poor clubs and hitting a subpar .252/.292/.363 <a href="/wiki/Slash_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Slash line">batting line</a> in 679 games, but saving himself from anonymity by leading the National League with 10 home runs in 1907, to become an <a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_annual_home_run_leaders#National_League" title="List of Major League Baseball annual home run leaders">early home run king</a>.</li> <li>May 26 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Walsh" title="Ed Walsh">Ed Walsh</a>, 78, Hall of Fame pitcher<sup id="cite_ref-HoF_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoF-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Spitball" title="Spitball">spitball</a> specialist who played with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> from 1904 through 1916 and the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Boston Braves</a> in 1917, whose finest season came in 1908, when he became the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_single-season_records#Wins" title="List of Major League Baseball single-season records">last pitcher in MLB history to win 40 games</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-HoF_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoF-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> set an American League record-breaking 11 <a href="/wiki/Shutout" title="Shutout">shutouts</a>, and posted a 1.82 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">earned run average</a>, an MLB record that still stands today,<sup id="cite_ref-BigEd_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BigEd-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while leading the league in <a href="/wiki/Innings_pitched" title="Innings pitched">innings pitched</a> four times (including a career-high 464 in the same season), in <a href="/wiki/Games_pitched" title="Games pitched">games pitched</a> and <a href="/wiki/Save_(baseball)" title="Save (baseball)">saves</a> five times, in <a href="/wiki/Starting_pitcher" title="Starting pitcher">starts</a> four, and in ERA, shutouts and <a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">strikeouts</a> twice,<sup id="cite_ref-BigEd_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BigEd-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> winning both of his <a href="/wiki/1906_World_Series" title="1906 World Series">1906 World Series</a> starts in Games 3 and 5, allowing seven hits and six runs (only one earned), and striking out 17 <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> batters in 15 innings of work, en route to the series championship.<sup id="cite_ref-HoF_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoF-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>May 28 – <a href="/wiki/Ken_Penner" title="Ken Penner">Ken Penner</a>, 63, pitcher who played with the <a href="/wiki/1916_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1916 Cleveland Indians season">1916 Cleveland Indians</a> and for the <a href="/wiki/1929_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1929 Chicago Cubs season">NL-Pennant winning Chicago Cubs in 1929</a>.</li> <li>May 29 – <a href="/wiki/Dutch_Ussat" title="Dutch Ussat">Dutch Ussat</a>, 55, third baseman and second baseman who played for the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> in the 1925 and 1927 seasons.</li> <li>May 30 – <a href="/wiki/Doc_Tonkin" title="Doc Tonkin">Doc Tonkin</a>, 77, pitcher who made only one game appearance in the majors with the <a href="/wiki/1907_Washington_Senators_season" title="1907 Washington Senators season">1907 Washington Senators</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_3">June</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: June"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>June   9 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Huelsman" title="Frank Huelsman">Frank Huelsman</a>, 85, regarded as the first player in Major League history to play for four different teams in a season, appearing in 112 games with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a> in 1904, who later gained notoriety as a Minor League star, compiling a .342 career <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batting average</a> over fifteen seasons, including five batting championships, six <a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">runs batted in</a> titles, and two <a href="/wiki/Triple_crown_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Triple crown (baseball)">Triple Crowns</a> between 1911 and 1913, missing a third title in 1912 by a .002 in batting average.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>June 13 – <a href="/wiki/Irv_Higginbotham" title="Irv Higginbotham">Irv Higginbotham</a>, 77, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> spanning three seasons from 1906 to 1909.</li> <li>June 14 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Cotter" title="Ed Cotter">Ed Cotter</a>, 54, third baseman and shortstop who appeared in three games with the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> in <a href="/wiki/1926_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1926 Philadelphia Phillies season">its 1926 season</a>.</li> <li>June 15 – <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Eakle" title="Charlie Eakle">Charlie Eakle</a>, 71, second baseman who played for the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Terrapins" title="Baltimore Terrapins">Baltimore Terrapins</a> of the outlaw <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a> in 1915.</li> <li>June 17 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Black_(baseball)" title="Dave Black (baseball)">Dave Black</a>, 67, pitcher who played with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Whales" title="Chicago Whales">Chicago Whales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Terrapins" title="Baltimore Terrapins">Baltimore Terrapins</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a> from 1914 to 1915, and for the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> in <a href="/wiki/1923_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1923 Boston Red Sox season">their 1923 American League season</a>.</li> <li>June 17 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_McHale" title="Jim McHale">Jim McHale</a>, 83, outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/1908_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="1908 Boston Red Sox season">1908 Boston Red Sox</a>.</li> <li>June 20 – <a href="/wiki/Speed_Walker" title="Speed Walker">Speed Walker</a>, 61, first baseman who appeared in two games for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> in 1923.</li> <li>June 22 – <a href="/wiki/Hal_Bubser" title="Hal Bubser">Hal Bubser</a>, 63, Minor League first baseman who made three <a href="/wiki/Pinch_hitter" title="Pinch hitter">pinch-hit</a> appearances for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> in 1923.</li> <li>June 24 – <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Hitchcock" title="Jimmy Hitchcock">Jim Hitchcock</a>, 48, regarded as Auburn University's first <a href="/wiki/All-American" class="mw-redirect" title="All-American">All-American</a> in both football and baseball, who briefly played shortstop for the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Bees" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Bees">Boston Bees</a> of the National League toward the end of <a href="/wiki/1938_Boston_Bees_season" title="1938 Boston Bees season">their 1938 season</a>; older brother of <a href="/wiki/Billy_Hitchcock" title="Billy Hitchcock">Bill Hitchcock</a>.</li> <li>June 24 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Ogrodowski" title="Joe Ogrodowski">Joe Ogrodowski</a>, 52, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1925_Boston_Braves_season" title="1925 Boston Braves season">1925 Boston Braves</a>.</li> <li>June 28 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Sugden_(baseball)" title="Joe Sugden (baseball)">Joe Sugden</a>, 88, 19th century catcher who played for five teams between 1893 and 1912, being a member of the <a href="/wiki/1901_Chicago_White_Stockings_season" title="1901 Chicago White Stockings season">Chicago White Stockings 1901 American League Champion Inaugural Roster</a>, and later a <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> <a href="/wiki/Scout_(sport)" title="Scout (sport)">scout</a> for 31 years.</li> <li>June 30 – <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Berger" title="Clarence Berger">Clarence Berger</a>, 64, backup outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/1914_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1914 Pittsburgh Pirates season">1914 Pittsburgh Pirates</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July_3">July</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: July"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>July   3 – <a href="/wiki/Red_Barnes" title="Red Barnes">Red Barnes</a>, 54, fourth outfielder who played from 1927 through 1930 for the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a>.</li> <li>July   7 – <a href="/wiki/Norwood_Gibson" title="Norwood Gibson">Norwood Gibson</a>, 82, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Americans">Boston Americans</a> over four seasons from 1903– 1906, who was part of back-to-back American League pennant-winning teams in 1903 and 1904, but did not pitch at all in the <a href="/wiki/1903_World_Series" title="1903 World Series">1903 World Series</a>, against the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>, and there was no World Series in 1904 because the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> <a href="/wiki/1904_World_Series" title="1904 World Series">refused to play Boston</a>.</li> <li>July 11 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Gilhooley" title="Frank Gilhooley">Frank Gilhooley</a>, 77, fourth outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> in parts of nine seasons spanning 1911–1919.</li> <li>July 13 – <a href="/wiki/Nick_Kahl_(baseball)" title="Nick Kahl (baseball)">Nick Kahl</a>, 80, second baseman for the <a href="/wiki/1905_Cleveland_Naps_season" title="1905 Cleveland Naps season">1905 Cleveland Naps</a>.</li> <li>July 13 – <a href="/wiki/Chick_Keating" title="Chick Keating">Chick Keating</a>, 67, shortstop who played with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> from 1913 to 1915 and for the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> in 1926.</li> <li>July 16 – <a href="/wiki/Bob_Coleman" title="Bob Coleman">Bob Coleman</a>, 68, player, coach and manager whose career included managing in Minor League Baseball for 35 seasons between 1919 and 1957; backup catcher for the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> in parts of three seasons spanning 1913–1916; coached with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> in 1926 and 1928, <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> in 1932, and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Boston Braves</a> in 1943; immediately pressed into service as interim replacement for <a href="/wiki/Casey_Stengel" title="Casey Stengel">Casey Stengel</a> as manager of the 1943 Braves before finishing the year as a coach following Stengel's return; then managed Braves full-time from 1944 to July 29, 1945; in 1946, he returned to the minors and win eight pennants and four championships with the <a href="/wiki/Evansville_Braves" title="Evansville Braves">Evansville Braves</a> of Class-B <a href="/wiki/Three-I_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Three-I League">Three-I League</a>, retiring with the most victories (2,496) of any manager in minor league history until he was surpassed by <a href="/wiki/Stan_Wasiak" title="Stan Wasiak">Stan Wasiak</a> (2,530).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>July 16 – <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Ripple" title="Jimmy Ripple">Jimmy Ripple</a>, 49, outfielder who played for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> through seven seasons spanning 1936–1943, being also a member of two Giants teams that won the National League pennant in 1936 and 1937, as well as for the <a href="/wiki/1940_World_Series" title="1940 World Series">1940 World Series Reds Champion Team</a>.</li> <li>July 20 – <a href="/wiki/Morrie_Arnovich" title="Morrie Arnovich">Morrie Arnovich</a>, 48, All-Star left fielder who played for the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> in seven seasons between 1936 and 1946, winning a World Series ring with the <a href="/wiki/1940_World_Series" title="1940 World Series">1940 World Champions Cincinnati Reds</a>.</li> <li>July 21 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hoffer" title="Bill Hoffer">Bill Hoffer</a>, 88, 19th century pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles_(19th_century)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore Orioles (19th century)">Baltimore Orioles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Blues_(AL)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Blues (AL)">Cleveland Blues</a> in a span of six seasons between 1895 and 1901, going 31-6 in his rookie season and leading the National League in <a href="/wiki/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching)" title="Win–loss record (pitching)">W-L%</a> (.838), while the Orioles won the pennant, and followed up with two more good seasons, posting a 25-7 record and a best W-L% (.781) in 1896 and 22-11 in 1897, as Baltimore won the pennant again in 1896 and finished a close second place in 1897.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>July 22 – <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Savidge" title="Ralph Savidge">Ralph Savidge</a>, 80, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> in the 1908 and 1909 seasons.</li> <li>July 25 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Boyer_(umpire)" title="Jim Boyer (umpire)">Jim Boyer</a>, 50, American League <a href="/wiki/Umpire_(baseball)" title="Umpire (baseball)">umpire</a> who worked in 1,025 games from 1944 to 1950, including appearances in the <a href="/wiki/1947_World_Series" title="1947 World Series">1947 World Series</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1947_Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game" title="1947 Major League Baseball All-Star Game">1947 MLB All-Star Game</a>.</li> <li>July 25 – <a href="/wiki/Buck_O%27Brien" title="Buck O'Brien">Buck O'Brien</a>, 77, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> over three seasons from 1911 to 1913, who went 20-13 for Boston in 1912, being the <a href="/wiki/Opening_Day" title="Opening Day">Opening Day</a> <a href="/wiki/Starting_pitcher" title="Starting pitcher">starter</a> and winner that season,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later starting the first game played at <a href="/wiki/Fenway_Park" title="Fenway Park">Fenway Park</a> on April 20, 1912,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also a member of the <a href="/wiki/1912_World_Series" title="1912 World Series">1912 World Series Red Sox champion team</a>.</li> <li>July 25 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Schepner" title="Joe Schepner">Joe Schepner</a>, 85, third baseman for the <a href="/wiki/1919_St._Louis_Browns_season" title="1919 St. Louis Browns season">1919 St. Louis Browns</a>.</li> <li>July 26 – <a href="/wiki/Otis_L._Miller" title="Otis L. Miller">Otto Miller</a>, 58, third baseman for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> in parts of four seasons from 1927 to 1932.</li> <li>July 28 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Ragland" title="Frank Ragland">Frank Ragland</a>, 55, pitcher who played with the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a> in 1932 and for the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> in 1933.</li> <li>July 29 – <a href="/wiki/Boileryard_Clarke" title="Boileryard Clarke">Boileryard Clarke</a>, 90, 19th century catcher and first baseman who played from 1893 through 1905 for the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles_(19th_century)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore Orioles (19th century)">Baltimore Orioles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Beaneaters" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Beaneaters">Boston Beaneaters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>, compiling a .256/.310/.326 <a href="/wiki/Slash_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Slash line">batting line</a> in 950 games, while leading American League backstops in games caught (87) and fielding percentage (.972) in 1902.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August_3">August</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: August"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>August   1 – <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Young_(baseball)" title="Harvey Young (baseball)">Harvey Young</a>, 38, diminutive (5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)) shortstop for four Negro leagues clubs between 1941 and 1944, including the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Elite_Giants" title="Baltimore Elite Giants">Baltimore Elite Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Monarchs" title="Kansas City Monarchs">Kansas City Monarchs</a>.</li> <li>August   4 – <a href="/wiki/Chappy_Charles" title="Chappy Charles">Chappy Charles</a>, 78, infielder who played from 1908 through 1910 for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>.</li> <li>August   4 – <a href="/wiki/Pop_Williams" title="Pop Williams">Pop Williams</a>, 85, pitcher who played for four National League clubs in parts of three seasons spanning 1898–1903, as most of his appearances were for the <a href="/wiki/1902_Chicago_Orphans_season" title="1902 Chicago Orphans season">1902 Chicago Orphans</a>.</li> <li>August   7 – <a href="/wiki/Ben_Dyer" title="Ben Dyer">Ben Dyer</a>, 66, reliable <a href="/wiki/Utility_player" title="Utility player">utility man</a> who, besides pitching, played all positions except catcher for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a> in a span of six seasons from 1914 to 1919.</li> <li>August   7 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_McGill_(baseball)" title="Bill McGill (baseball)">Bill McGill</a>, 79, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1907_St._Louis_Browns_season" title="1907 St. Louis Browns season">1907 St. Louis Browns</a>.</li> <li>August   8 – <a href="/wiki/Phil_Lewis_(baseball)" title="Phil Lewis (baseball)">Phil Lewis</a>, 75, shortstop who played for the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Superbas" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn Superbas">Brooklyn Superbas</a> over four seasons from 1905 to 1908.</li> <li>August 12 – <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Burnett_(baseball)" title="Johnny Burnett (baseball)">Johnny Burnett</a>, 54, shortstop who played with the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a> from 1927 through 1934 and for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> in 1935.</li> <li>August 12 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_Goebel" title="Ed Goebel">Ed Goebel</a>, 60, outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/1922_Washington_Senators_season" title="1922 Washington Senators season">1922 Washington Senators</a>.</li> <li>August 12 – <a href="/wiki/Mike_O%27Neill_(baseball)" title="Mike O'Neill (baseball)">Mike O'Neill</a>, 81, Irish-born starting pitcher, left fielder and pinch-hitter, whose career included stints with the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> from 1901 to 1904 and the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> in 1907, posting a career pitching record of 32–44 with a 2.73 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">ERA</a> in 85 games, while belting the first ever pinch hit <a href="/wiki/Grand_slam_(baseball)" title="Grand slam (baseball)">grand slam</a> in Major League history, an inside-the-park homer off fellow <a href="/wiki/Togie_Pittinger" title="Togie Pittinger">Togie Pittinger</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Beaneaters" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Beaneaters">Boston Beaneaters</a> in 1902;<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> elder sibling of <a href="/wiki/Steve_O%27Neill" title="Steve O'Neill">Steve O'Neill</a> and one of four brothers who played in majors.</li> <li>August 27 – <a href="/wiki/Claude_Jonnard" title="Claude Jonnard">Claude Jonnard</a>, 61, pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> over six seasons from 1921 to 1926; member of the Giants teams that won the National League pennants in 1923 and 1924; twin brother of <a href="/wiki/Bubber_Jonnard" title="Bubber Jonnard">Bubber Jonnard</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September_3">September</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: September"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>September   3 – <a href="/wiki/Emmett_Bowles" title="Emmett Bowles">Emmett Bowles</a>, 61, who made one pitching appearance for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> in <a href="/wiki/1922_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1922 Chicago White Sox season">its 1922 season</a>.</li> <li>September   6 – <a href="/wiki/Yellowhorse_Morris" title="Yellowhorse Morris">John "Yellowhorse" Morris</a>, 57, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Monarchs" title="Kansas City Monarchs">Kansas City Monarchs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Stars" title="Detroit Stars">Detroit Stars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_American_Giants" title="Chicago American Giants">Chicago American Giants</a> of the Negro National League between 1924 and 1930 who won 14 games for the 1928 Stars.</li> <li>September   8 – <a href="/wiki/Roy_Mitchell_(baseball)" title="Roy Mitchell (baseball)">Roy Mitchell</a>, 74, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> over six seasons spanning from 1910 to 1919, who was a member of the <a href="/wiki/1919_World_Series" title="1919 World Series">1919 World Series Champion Reds</a> team.</li> <li>September   9 – <a href="/wiki/Terry_Lyons_(baseball)" title="Terry Lyons (baseball)">Terry Lyons</a>, 50, first baseman for the <a href="/wiki/1929_Philadelphia_Phillies_season" title="1929 Philadelphia Phillies season">1929 Philadelphia Phillies</a>.</li> <li>September 14 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Upham" title="Bill Upham">Bill Upham</a>, 71, pitcher who played in 1915 with the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Tip-Tops" title="Brooklyn Tip-Tops">Brooklyn Tip-Tops</a> of the Federal League and for the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Boston Braves</a> of the National League in 1918.</li> <li>September 20 – <a href="/wiki/Tilly_Walker" title="Tilly Walker">Tilly Walker</a>, 72, strong-armed outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> in a 13-season career from 1911 to 1923, who hit 11 home runs in 1918 to tie <a href="/wiki/Babe_Ruth" title="Babe Ruth">Babe Ruth</a> for the American League lead in home runs, ranking amongst the top five in the league every year from 1919 to 1922, when he belted a career-best 37 homers, while leading the league in <a href="/wiki/Assists_(baseball_statistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Assists (baseball statistics)">outfield assists</a> six times and winning a World Series title with the <a href="/wiki/1916_World_Series" title="1916 World Series">Boston Red Sox in 1916</a>.</li> <li>September 28 – <a href="/wiki/Art_Brouthers" title="Art Brouthers">Art Brouthers</a>, 76, third baseman for the <a href="/wiki/1906_Philadelphia_Athletics_season" title="1906 Philadelphia Athletics season">1906 Philadelphia Athletics</a>.</li> <li>September 28 – <a href="/wiki/Red_Corriden" title="Red Corriden">Red Corriden</a>, 72, whose career spanned from 1908 through his retirement 1n 1958, playing parts of five seasons in the majors and serving as the regular shorstop for the <a href="/wiki/1914_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1914 Chicago Cubs season">Chicago Cubs in 1914</a>, playing also in the minor leagues during the 1920s, later coaching in the majors from 1932 to 1948 while managing the <a href="/wiki/1950_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1950 Chicago White Sox season">1950 Chicago White Sox</a>, being a member of five pennant-winning teams and the <a href="/wiki/1947_World_Series" title="1947 World Series">1947 World Champions New York Yankees</a>, and finally scouting for the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers</a> teams from 1951 to 1958.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October_3">October</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: October"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>October 10 – <a href="/wiki/Bunny_Hearn" title="Bunny Hearn">Bunny Hearn</a>, 68, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Rebels" title="Pittsburgh Rebels">Pittsburgh Rebels</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Boston Braves</a> in parts of six seasons spanning 1910–1920, who later became a longtime baseball <a href="/wiki/Head_coach" title="Head coach">head coach</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina" title="University of North Carolina">UNC</a>, where he guided the <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Tar_Heels" title="North Carolina Tar Heels">North Carolina Tar Heels</a> to six Southern Conference titles and two Ration League titles, compiling a record of 214–133–2 while in <a href="/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill" title="University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill">UNC-Chapel Hill</a>.</li> <li>October 13 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Wills_(baseball)" title="Dave Wills (baseball)">Dave Wills</a>, 82, 19th century first baseman who played for the <a href="/wiki/Louisville_Colonels" title="Louisville Colonels">Louisville Colonels</a> in <a href="/wiki/1899_Louisville_Colonels_season" title="1899 Louisville Colonels season">their 1899 season</a>.</li> <li>October 16 – <a href="/wiki/Sled_Allen" title="Sled Allen">Sled Allen</a>, 72, catcher for the <a href="/wiki/1910_St._Louis_Browns_season" title="1910 St. Louis Browns season">1910 St. Louis Browns</a>.</li> <li>October 16 – <a href="/wiki/Herb_Bradley" title="Herb Bradley">Herb Bradley</a>, 56, pitcher who played 1927 through 1929 for the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>.</li> <li>October 16 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Okrie" title="Frank Okrie">Frank Okrie</a>, 62, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1920_Detroit_Tigers_season" title="1920 Detroit Tigers season">1920 Detroit Tigers</a>; father of <a href="/wiki/Len_Okrie" title="Len Okrie">Len Okrie</a>.</li> <li>October 18 – <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bell_(baseball)" title="Ralph Bell (baseball)">Ralph Bell</a>, 68, pitcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> in <a href="/wiki/1912_Chicago_White_Sox_season" title="1912 Chicago White Sox season">their 1912 season</a>.</li> <li>October 21 – <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Barber" title="Jesse Barber">Jesse Barber</a>, 71, nicknamed "Phantom", outfielder whose career in Black baseball began in 1909, before the formal organization of the Negro leagues, and included multiple seasons for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_American_Giants" title="Chicago American Giants">Chicago American Giants</a>.</li> <li>October 21 – <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Rieger" title="Elmer Rieger">Elmer Rieger</a>, 70, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1910_St._Louis_Cardinals_season" title="1910 St. Louis Cardinals season">1910 St. Louis Cardinals</a>.</li> <li>October 27 – <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Koestner" title="Elmer Koestner">Elmer Koestner</a>, 73, pitcher who played with the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Naps</a> in 1910 and for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> in 1914.</li> <li>October 27 – <a href="/wiki/Scott_Perry_(baseball)" title="Scott Perry (baseball)">Scott Perry</a>, 68, pitcher who played from 1915 through 1921 for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a>.</li> <li>October 29 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Fultz" title="Dave Fultz">Dave Fultz</a>, 84, All-American, two-sport athlete at <a href="/wiki/Brown_University" title="Brown University">Brown University</a>, who later played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder/infielder with the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles_(19th_century)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore Orioles (19th century)">Baltimore Orioles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Athletics" title="Philadelphia Athletics">Philadelphia Athletics</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Highlanders" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Highlanders">New York Highlanders</a> in seven seasons from 1898 to 1905, before becoming a lawyer and unionizing Major League ballplayers in an organization called the <i>Fraternity of Baseball Players</i>, which operated during the rocky <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a> era.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November_3">November</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: November"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>November   4 – <a href="/wiki/Lefty_Williams" title="Lefty Williams">Lefty Williams</a>, 66, curveball specialist pitcher who recorded back-to-back 20-win seasons with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> in 1919 and 1920, whose career was truncated when he and seven of his teammates were expelled from Organized Baseball for their roles in losing the tainted <a href="/wiki/1919_World_Series" title="1919 World Series">1919 World Series</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a>, an incident known as the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal" title="Black Sox Scandal">Black Sox Scandal</a>.</li> <li>November 15 – <a href="/wiki/Klondike_Smith" title="Klondike Smith">Klondike Smith</a>, 72, English outfielder who played for the <a href="/wiki/1912_New_York_Highlanders_season" title="1912 New York Highlanders season">1912 New York Highlanders</a>.</li> <li>November 18 – <a href="/wiki/Wib_Smith" title="Wib Smith">Wib Smith</a>, 73, backup catcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns" title="St. Louis Browns">St. Louis Browns</a> in <a href="/wiki/1909_St._Louis_Browns_season" title="1909 St. Louis Browns season">its 1909 season</a>.</li> <li>November 20 – <a href="/wiki/Roy_Thomas_(outfielder)" title="Roy Thomas (outfielder)">Roy Thomas</a>, 85, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> speedy center fielder and reliable <a href="/wiki/Leadoff_hitter" title="Leadoff hitter">leadoff hitter</a> who batted .300 five times, leading the National League in <a href="/wiki/Base_on_balls" title="Base on balls">walks</a> in seven of his nine full major-league seasons from 1899 to 1907, scoring at least 100 <a href="/wiki/Run_(baseball)" title="Run (baseball)">runs</a> four times while leading all outfielders in <a href="/wiki/Putout" title="Putout">putouts</a> three times, <a href="/wiki/Fielding_average" class="mw-redirect" title="Fielding average">fielding average</a> and <a href="/wiki/Assist_(baseball)" title="Assist (baseball)">assists</a> once each, and <a href="/wiki/Total_chances" title="Total chances">total chances</a> per game twice, ending with a career .290/413/.333 <a href="/wiki/Slash_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Slash line">batting line</a> and 244 <a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">stolen bases</a> in 1,470 games.</li> <li>November 28 – <a href="/wiki/Ed_McFarland" title="Ed McFarland">Ed McFarland</a>, 85, slick-fielding catcher who played for the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Spiders" title="Cleveland Spiders">Cleveland Spiders</a>, <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis Browns (NL)">St. Louis Browns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a> in 14 seasons spanning 1896–1908, while helping the White Sox win the <a href="/wiki/1906_World_Series" title="1906 World Series">1906 World Series</a> over the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Cubs" title="Chicago Cubs">Chicago Cubs</a> in six games, for one of the greatest upsets in Series history.</li> <li>November 28 – <a href="/wiki/Blondy_Ryan" title="Blondy Ryan">Blondy Ryan</a>, 53, middle infielder and third baseman who played for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies" title="Philadelphia Phillies">Philadelphia Phillies</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> in parts of seven seasons from 1930 to 1938, whose hitting and fielding hustle led the Giants to the <a href="/wiki/1933_World_Series" title="1933 World Series">1933 World Series</a> championship.</li> <li>November 30 – <a href="/wiki/Jack_Scott_(baseball)" title="Jack Scott (baseball)">Jack Scott</a>, 67, <a href="/wiki/Knuckleball" title="Knuckleball">knuckleball</a> pitcher who played from 1916 through 1929 for five teams, posting a career record of 103–109 and 3.85 <a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">ERA</a>, while throwing a four-hit <a href="/wiki/Shutout" title="Shutout">shutout</a> for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a> in Game 3 of the <a href="/wiki/1922_World_Series" title="1922 World Series">1922 World Series</a> against the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, en route to the series championship.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_3">December</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: December"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>December   5 – <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Siemer" title="Oscar Siemer">Oscar Siemer</a>, 58, catcher who played from 1925 to 1926 with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Boston Braves</a>.</li> <li>December   6 – <a href="/wiki/Wid_Conroy" title="Wid Conroy">Wid Conroy</a>, 82, valuable <a href="/wiki/Utility_player" title="Utility player">utility man</a> who played every infield and outfield position for the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Brewers_(1901)" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee Brewers (1901)">Milwaukee Brewers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_Highlanders" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Highlanders">New York Highlanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%9360)" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Senators (1901–60)">Washington Senators</a> over 12 seasons from 1901 to 1911, being also the first-string <a href="/wiki/Shortstop" title="Shortstop">shortstop</a> of the <a href="/wiki/1902_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season" title="1902 Pittsburgh Pirates season">1902 National League Champion Pirates</a>.</li> <li>December   7 – <a href="/wiki/Tom_McGuire_(baseball)" title="Tom McGuire (baseball)">Tom McGuire</a>, 67, pitcher who played with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Whales" title="Chicago Whales">Chicago Whales</a> in 1914 and for the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_White_Sox" title="Chicago White Sox">Chicago White Sox</a> in 1919.</li> <li>December   9 – <a href="/wiki/Ferd_Eunick" title="Ferd Eunick">Ferd Eunick</a>, 67, third baseman for the <a href="/wiki/1917_Cleveland_Indians_season" title="1917 Cleveland Indians season">1917 Cleveland Indians</a>.</li> <li>December 10 – <a href="/wiki/Joe_Harris_(first_baseman)" title="Joe Harris (first baseman)">Joe Harris</a>, 68, first baseman and outfielder whose Major League career included stints with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Indians">Cleveland Indians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox" title="Boston Red Sox">Boston Red Sox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington_Senators_(1901%E2%80%931960)" title="Washington Senators (1901–1960)">Washington Senators</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Robins" class="mw-redirect" title="Brooklyn Robins">Brooklyn Robins</a> spanning ten seasons between 1914 and 1928, batting over .300 eight times, including a .323 mark to help the Senators to reach the <a href="/wiki/1925_World_Series" title="1925 World Series">1925 World Series</a>; became the first player to hit a home run in his first World Series <a href="/wiki/At_bat" title="At bat">at bat</a>, while going 11-for-25 (.440) with three homers, two <a href="/wiki/Double_(baseball)" title="Double (baseball)">doubles</a>, six <a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">runs batted in</a> and three two-hit games for a <a href="/wiki/Slugging_average" class="mw-redirect" title="Slugging average">slugging average</a> of .880 in the seven-game Series loss to Pittsburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>December 11 – <a href="/wiki/Jim_Bottomley" title="Jim Bottomley">Jim Bottomley</a>, 59, Hall of Fame first baseman and <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Most_Valuable_Player_Award#League_Awards_(1922–1929)" title="Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award">1928 National League MVP Award</a> winner, who in his 11-season tenure with the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Cardinals" title="St. Louis Cardinals">St. Louis Cardinals</a> <a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">drove in</a> 100 or more runs six years in a row from 1924 to 1929, leading the league twice in RBI, <a href="/wiki/Double_(baseball)" title="Double (baseball)">doubles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Putout" title="Putout">fielding putouts</a>, and once in <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a>, <a href="/wiki/Triple_(baseball)" title="Triple (baseball)">triples</a> and <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home runs</a>, while establishing Major League records for the most <a href="/wiki/Double_play#Examples" title="Double play">unassisted double plays</a> in a season by a first baseman with eight in 1936, and for driving in 12 runs in a nine inning game in 1924, which was matched 69 years later by fellow Cardinals outfielder <a href="/wiki/Mark_Whiten" title="Mark Whiten">Mark Whiten</a> in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>December 11 – <a href="/wiki/Doc_Marshall_(catcher)" title="Doc Marshall (catcher)">Doc Marshall</a>, 84, backup catcher who played for seven teams over parts of four seasons from 1904 to 1909, being a member of the <a href="/wiki/1908_Chicago_Cubs_season" title="1908 Chicago Cubs season">1908 Chicago Cubs</a> club that won the National League pennant, but he did not play in the World Series.</li> <li>December 16 – <a href="/wiki/Lee_Dashner" title="Lee Dashner">Lee Dashner</a>, 72, pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/1903_Cleveland_Naps_season" title="1903 Cleveland Naps season">1903 Cleveland Naps</a>.</li> <li>December 17 – <a href="/wiki/Del_Young_(outfielder)" title="Del Young (outfielder)">Del Young</a>, 74, outfielder who played with the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> in 1909, and for the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Blues" title="Buffalo Blues">Buffalo Blues</a> of the outlaw <a href="/wiki/Federal_League" title="Federal League">Federal League</a> from 1914 to 1915.</li> <li>December 24 – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Friel" title="Bill Friel">Bill Friel</a>, 83, <a href="/wiki/Utility_player" title="Utility player">infield and outfield utility</a> who debuted with the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles#Milwaukee_Brewers" title="Baltimore Orioles">Milwaukee Brewers</a> of the American League in 1901, and remained with the franchise in 1902–1903 after it moved and became the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles#St._Louis_Browns" title="Baltimore Orioles">St. Louis Browns</a>.</li> <li>December 30 – <a href="/wiki/Lew_Whistler" title="Lew Whistler">Lew Whistler</a>, 91, 19th century first baseman who played from 1890 through 1893 for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Orioles_(19th_century)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore Orioles (19th century)">Baltimore Orioles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louisville_Colonels" title="Louisville Colonels">Louisville Colonels</a> and <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Browns_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis Browns (NL)">St. Louis Browns</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=1959_in_baseball&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/1956_in_baseball" title="1956 in baseball">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_in_baseball" title="1957 in baseball">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_in_baseball" title="1958 in baseball">1958</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_in_baseball" title="1960 in baseball">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_in_baseball" title="1961 in baseball">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_in_baseball" title="1962 in baseball">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_in_baseball" title="1963 in baseball">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_in_baseball" title="1964 in baseball">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_in_baseball" title="1965 in baseball">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_in_baseball" title="1966 in baseball">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_in_baseball" title="1967 in baseball">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_in_baseball" title="1968 in baseball">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_in_baseball" title="1969 in baseball">1969</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1970_in_baseball" title="1970 in baseball">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_in_baseball" title="1971 in baseball">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_in_baseball" title="1972 in baseball">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_in_baseball" title="1973 in baseball">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_in_baseball" title="1974 in baseball">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_in_baseball" title="1975 in baseball">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_in_baseball" title="1976 in baseball">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_in_baseball" title="1977 in baseball">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_in_baseball" title="1978 in baseball">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_in_baseball" title="1979 in baseball">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_in_baseball" title="1980 in baseball">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_in_baseball" title="1981 in baseball">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_in_baseball" title="1982 in baseball">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_in_baseball" title="1983 in baseball">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_in_baseball" title="1984 in baseball">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_in_baseball" title="1985 in baseball">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_in_baseball" title="1986 in baseball">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_in_baseball" title="1987 in baseball">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_in_baseball" title="1988 in baseball">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_in_baseball" title="1989 in baseball">1989</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1990_in_baseball" title="1990 in baseball">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_in_baseball" title="1991 in baseball">1991</a></li> 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href="/wiki/2005_in_baseball" title="2005 in baseball">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_in_baseball" title="2006 in baseball">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_in_baseball" title="2007 in baseball">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_in_baseball" title="2008 in baseball">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_in_baseball" title="2009 in baseball">2009</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2010_in_baseball" title="2010 in baseball">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_in_baseball" title="2011 in baseball">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_in_baseball" title="2012 in baseball">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_in_baseball" title="2013 in baseball">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_in_baseball" title="2014 in baseball">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_in_baseball" title="2015 in baseball">2015</a></li> <li><a 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