1965 Minnesota Twins season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Minnesota Twins
season = 1965
misc = American League Champions

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
Uniform
ballpark = Metropolitan Stadium
y4 = 1961
city = Bloomington, Minnesota
y5 = 1961
owners = Calvin Griffith
managers = Sam Mele
television = WTCN-TV
radio = 830 WCCO AM
(Herb Carneal, Halsey Hall, Ray Scott)|The 1965 Minnesota Twins won the 1965 American League Pennant with a 102-60 record.1,463,258 fans attended Twins games, the highest total in the American League.

Regular Season

The Twins set a team record with 102 wins. On september 26 at RFK Stadium in Washington D.C., the Twins beat the Washington Senators 2-1 to clinch their first ever American League Pennant. Jim Kaat was the winning pitcher.

Six Twins made the All-Star Game (played at Metropolitan Stadium):first baseman Harmon Killebrew, shortstop Zoilo Versalles, outfielders Tony Oliva and Jimmie Hall, catcher Earl Battey, and pitcher Mudcat Grant. Zoilo Versalles was named AL Most Valuable Player. Mudcat Grant became the first black pitcher in the history of the American League to win 20 games in a season. [Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.198, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, NY, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0]

Offense

Tony Oliva led the AL with a .321 average and Zoilo Versalles led with 126 runs.
Harmon Killebrew was limited to 113 games by injuries, but still hit 25 HR and 75 RBI.

Notable transactions

* June 8, 1965: Graig Nettles was drafted by the Twins in the 4th round of the 1965 amateur draft. [ [http://www.baseball-reference.com/n/nettlgr01.shtml Graig Nettles page at Baseball Reference] ]

Player stats

Batting

tarters by position

"Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In"

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

Postseason

See 1965 World Series.

Awards and Honors

* Zoilo Versalles, Shortstop, American League MVP
* Sam Mele, Associated Press AL Manager of the Year

References

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/1965.shtml Player stats from www.baseball-reference.com]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1965&t=MIN Team info from www.baseball-almanac.com]
* [http://www.cooloftheevening.com 2005 book about the 1965 Minnesota Twins]
* [http://www.cooloftheevening.com/chapter_excerpt_1.htm Account of July 9 Killebrew home run] succession box
title = American League Champions
years = by|1965
before = New York Yankees
by|1964
after = Baltimore Orioles
by|1966