1960 Boston Red Sox season explained

Boston Red Sox
Season:	1960
League:	American League
Ballpark:	Fenway Park
City:	Boston, Massachusetts
Record:	65–89 (.422)
League Place:	7th
Owners:	Tom Yawkey
President:	Tom Yawkey
General Managers:	Bucky Harris
Television:	WHDH-TV, Ch. 5
Radio:	WHDH-AM 850 (Curt Gowdy, Bill Crowley, Art Gleeson)
Espntn:	bos
Brtn:	BOS

The 1960 Boston Red Sox season was the 60th season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished seventh in the American League (AL) with a record of 65 wins and 89 losses, 32 games behind the AL champion New York Yankees.^[1]

Regular season

• June 7, 1960: Manager Billy Jurges was fired with Boston in eighth and last place. After interim skipper Del Baker handled the Bosox for seven games, Jurges was replaced by Mike "Pinky" Higgins (his predecessor) on June 14.^[1]
• September 28, 1960: Ted Williams retired at the end of the Red Sox' home season. In his final at bat, Williams hit the 521st home run of his career.^[1] Williams finished the season with a .316 batting average at the age of 42.^[1] He did not play in Boston's three-game season finale at Yankee Stadium the ensuing weekend.
• September 28, 1960: The Red Sox also fired second-year general manager Bucky Harris after the club's final home game on September 28, and signed Higgins to a three-year contract as field manager and director of player personnel.^[2] Business manager Dick O'Connell was promoted to executive vice president, as the Red Sox temporarily abolished the title of general manager.

Notable transactions

• March 16, 1960: Sammy White and Jim Marshall were traded by the Red Sox to the Cleveland Indians for Russ Nixon. White refused to report and went on the voluntarily retired list, cancelling the trade with the players returning to their original clubs.^[3]
• May 6, 1960: Nelson Chittum was traded by the Red Sox to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Rip Repulski.^[4]
• May 17, 1960: Ron Jackson was traded by the Red Sox to the Milwaukee Braves for Ray Boone.^[5]
• June 13, 1960: Marty Keough and Ted Bowsfield were traded by the Red Sox to the Cleveland Indians for Russ Nixon and Carroll Hardy.^[6] The trade marked the second time in three months that Boston had obtained Nixon (see March 16, above).
• September 14, 1960: Ray Boone was released by the Red Sox.^[5]

Opening Day lineup

12		2B
3		1B
11		3B
10		RF
9		LF
37		CF
1		SS
30	Haywood Sullivan	C
15		P

Roster

1960 Boston Red Sox
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		ManagersCoaches (Bench) (Third base) (Pitching) (First base & Hitting)

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

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		80	272	81	.298	5	33
1B		131	443	125	.282	19	103
2B		143	528	169	.320	2	35
3B		152	595	161	.271	14	79
SS		124	428	105	.245	6	36
LF		113	310	98	.316	29	72
CF		105	385	108	.281	7	37
RF		96	298	68	.228	6	37

Other batters

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
	133	260	63	.242	3	21
	77	245	74	.302	9	33
	73	145	34	.234	2	15
	73	136	33	.243	3	20
	52	124	20	.161	3	10
	40	114	30	.263	5	20
	35	109	25	.229	2	11
	38	105	26	.248	1	9
	38	93	20	.215	3	8
	34	78	16	.205	1	11
	28	62	19	.306	2	9
	29		51	9	.176	1	4
	10	31	7	.226	0	0
	15	19	3	.158	0	0
	7	3	0	.000		0	1
	1	0	0	----	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	35	215.0	14	11	3.64	134
	34	186.2	10	15	4.82	60
	24	129.1	9	10	4.73	49
	23	125.0	6	4	3.24	75
	13	65.0	3	2	4.71	40

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	40	153.2	6	16	5.10	98
	29	96.1	2	9	6.17	54
	16	36.2	0	3	5.65	14
	6	12.2	0	2	4.26	11

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	70	10	5	13	2.64	64
	40	3	3	1	4.97	67
	26	0	4	3	6.53	32
	17	1	2	2	5.14	18
	15	1	1	1	7.42	28
	6	0	1	0	7.71	7
	6	0	0	0	4.32	5
	4	0	0	0	0.00	6
	2	0	1	0	15.75	5

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball.

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Waterloo
Source:^{[7] [8]}

External links

• 1960 Boston Red Sox team page at Baseball Reference
• 1960 Boston Red Sox season at baseball-almanac.com

Notes and References

1. Book: The Boston Red Sox: An Illustrated History . Milton . Cole . Jim . Kaplan . 32 . World Publications Group . . 2009 . 978-1-57215-412-4.
2. Book: Smiles, Jack. Bucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's 'Boy Wonder'. 2011. McFarland & Company. 978-0-7864-4160-0. 269.
3. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whitesa02.shtml Sammy White page at Baseball-Reference
4. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/repulri01.shtml Rip Repulski page at Baseball-Reference
5. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19600517&id=eh5YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MvcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2072,3868384&hl=en Red Sox sells Jackson
6. Web site: Indians, Red Sox exchange players. 13 June 1960. Milwaukee Journal. AP. 16. 3 June 2010.
7. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
8. Book: Boston Red Sox Guide for Press, TV and Radio . 1960 . 2 . March 14, 2021 . Wayback Machine.