1958 Kansas City Athletics season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969
name = Kansas City Athletics
season = 1958
misc =

current league = American League
y1 = 1901
division = Western Division
y2 = 1969
Uniform
ballpark = Municipal Stadium
y4 = 1955
city = Kansas City, Missouri
y5 = 1955
owners = Arnold Johnson
managers = Harry Craft
television =
radio = KMBC
(Merle Harmon, Ed Edwards)|The Kansas City Athletics' 1958 season involved the A's finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 73 wins and 81 losses.

Offseason

*November 20, 1957: Billy Martin was traded by the Kansas City Athletics with Mickey McDermott, Tom Morgan, Lou Skizas, Tim Thompson, and Gus Zernial to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later, Bill Tuttle, Jim Small, Duke Maas, John Tsitouris, Frank House, and Kent Hadley. The Detroit Tigers sent Jim McManus (April 3, 1958) to the Kansas City Athletics to complete the trade. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/martibi02.shtml]
*December 2, 1957: Harry Chiti was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics from the New York Yankees in the 1957 rule 5 draft. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/chitiha01.shtml]

Regular season

Transactions

*May 14, 1958: Whitey Herzog was purchased by the Kansas City Athletics from the Washington Senators. [http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/herzowh01.shtml]
*June 12, 1958: Chico Carrasquel was traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Kansas City Athletics for Billy Hunter. [ http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/carrach01.shtml]
* June 15, 1958: Roger Maris was traded by the Cleveland Indians with Dick Tomanek and Preston Ward to the Kansas City Athletics for Woodie Held and Vic Power.

eason standings

Roster

[http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCA/1958.shtml]

Other batters

Relief pitchers

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCA/1958.shtml 1958 Kansas City Athletics team page at Baseball Reference]
* [http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1958&t=KC1 1958 Kansas City Athletics team page at www.baseball-almanac.com]