1956 Baltimore Orioles season
- 1956 Baltimore Orioles season
MLB yearly infobox-pre1969 alt
name = Baltimore Orioles
season = 1956
misc =
current league = American League
y1 = 1901
ballpark = Memorial Stadium
y4 = 1954
city = Baltimore, Maryland
y5 = 1954
owners = Jerold Hoffberger, Clarence Miles
general manager = Paul Richards
managers = Paul Richards
television =WMAR-TV/WAAM/WBAL-TV
radio = WCBM
(Ernie Harwell, Chuck Thompson, Bailey Goss) |
The 1956 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing 6th in the American League with a record of 69 wins and 85 losses.
Regular season
On September 30, 1956, Joe Frazier hit a home run in the last at-bat of his career. [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats18.shtml]
eason standings
Roster
Starting pitchers
Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball". Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 1997]
* "Open" Classification: Vancouver Mounties (Pacific Coast League; Lefty O'Doul, manager)
* Class AA: San Antonio Missions (Texas League; Joe Schultz, manager)
* Class A: Columbus Foxes (Sally League; Skeeter Newsome, manager)
* Class B: Lubbock Hubbers/Texas City Texans (Big State League; Bill Krueger and Jay Haney, managers) — Franchise transferred and renamed, July 8
* Class C: Phoenix Stars (Arizona-Mexico League; Bill Capps, manager)
* Class C: Aberdeen Pheasants (Northern League; George Staller, manager)
* Class D: Thomson Orioles (Georgia State League; Barney Lutz and Enid Drake, managers)
* Class D: Paris Orioles (Sooner State League; Jimmy Adair and Barney Lutz, managers)
References
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BAL/1956.shtml 1956 Baltimore Orioles team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1956&t=BAL 1956 Baltimore Orioles season at baseball-almanac.com]
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