1960_San_Francisco_Giants_season Knowpia

1960 San Francisco Giants
1960 San Francisco Giants
League	National League
Ballpark	Candlestick Park
City	San Francisco
Owners	Horace Stoneham
General managers	Chub Feeney
Managers	Bill Rigney (W-33; L-25), Tom Sheehan (W-46; L-50)
Television	KTVU (Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons)
Radio	KSFO-AM 560; (Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, Bill King)

The 1960 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 78th year in Major League Baseball. The team moved their home games from Seals Stadium to the new Candlestick Park. In their third season in the Golden Gate City, the Giants finished in fifth place in the National League, 16 games behind the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. The Giants hit 62 triples, the most in the club's San Francisco era.^[1]

Offseason edit

November 30, 1959: Joey Amalfitano was drafted by the Giants from the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1959 rule 5 draft.^[2]
November 30, 1959: Jackie Brandt, Gordon Jones, and Roger McCardell were traded by the Giants to the Baltimore Orioles for Billy Loes and Billy O'Dell.^[3]
November 30, 1959: Georges Maranda was drafted by the Giants from the Milwaukee Braves in the 1959 rule 5 draft.^[4]

Regular season edit

Season standings edit

v t e National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Pittsburgh Pirates	95	59	0.617	—	52–25	43–34
Milwaukee Braves	88	66	0.571	7	51–26	37–40
St. Louis Cardinals	86	68	0.558	9	51–26	35–42
Los Angeles Dodgers	82	72	0.532	13	42–35	40–37
San Francisco Giants	79	75	0.513	16	45–32	34–43
Cincinnati Reds	67	87	0.435	28	37–40	30–47
Chicago Cubs	60	94	0.390	35	33–44	27–50
Philadelphia Phillies	59	95	0.383	36	31–46	28–49

Record vs. opponents edit

1960 National League record v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team	CHC	CIN	LA	MIL	PHI	PIT	SF	STL
Chicago	—	10–12	9–13	7–15	10–12	7–15	9–13–1	8–14–1
Cincinnati	12–10	—	12–10	9–13	9–13	6–16	11–11	8–14
Los Angeles	13–9	10–12	—	12–10	16–6	11–11	10–12	10–12
Milwaukee	15–7	13–9	10–12	—	16–6	9–13	14–8	11–11
Philadelphia	12–10	13–9	6–16	6–16	—	7–15	8–14	7–15
Pittsburgh	15–7	16–6	11–11	13–9	15–7	—	14–8–1	11–11
San Francisco	13–9–1	11–11	12–10	8–14	14–8	8–14–1	—	13–9
St. Louis	14–8–1	14–8	12–10	11–11	15–7	11–11	9–13	—

Opening Day starters edit

Notable transactions edit

April 1960: Don Taussig was purchased from the Giants by the Portland Beavers.^[6]
May 12, 1960: Dave Philley was purchased by the Giants from the Philadelphia Phillies.^[7]
September 1, 1960: Dave Philley was purchased from the Giants by the Baltimore Orioles.^[7]

Candlestick Park edit

The Giants selected the name of Candlestick Park after a name-the-park contest on March 3, 1959. Prior to that, its construction site had been shown on maps as the generic Bay View Stadium. It was the first modern baseball stadium, as it was the first to be built entirely of reinforced concrete.^[8] Richard Nixon threw out the first baseball on the opening day of Candlestick Park on April 12, 1960, and called it the finest ballpark in the country.^[9]

Roster edit

1960 San Francisco Giants

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Manager

18 Bill Rigney
6 Tom Sheehan

Coaches

Player stats edit

Batting edit

Starters by position edit

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

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Bob Schmidt	110	344	92	.267	8	37
1B	Willie McCovey	101	260	62	.238	13	51
2B	Don Blasingame	136	523	123	.235	2	31
SS	Ed Bressoud	116	386	87	.225	9	43
3B	Jim Davenport	112	363	91	.251	6	38
LF	Orlando Cepeda	151	569	169	.297	24	96
CF	Willie Mays	153	595	190	.319	29	103
RF	Willie Kirkland	146	515	130	.252	21	65

Other batters edit

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

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Joey Amalfitano	106	328	91	.277	1	27
Felipe Alou	106	322	85	.264	8	44
Andre Rodgers	81	217	53	.244	2	22
Hobie Landrith	71	190	46	.242	1	20
Jim Marshall	75	118	28	.237	2	13
Dave Philley	39	61	10	.164	1	7
Dale Long	37	54	9	.167	3	6
José Pagán	18	49	14	.286	0	2
Neil Wilson	6	10	0	.000	0	0
Matty Alou	4	3	1	.333	0	0

Pitching edit

Starting pitchers edit

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Mike McCormick	40	253.0	15	12	2.70	154
Sam Jones	39	234.0	18	14	3.19	190
Jack Sanford	37	219.0	12	14	3.82	125
Juan Marichal	11	81.1	6	2	2.66	58

Other pitchers edit