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1961 AL Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
Click Division Name for Divisional History Chart
American Team W L WPct GB Oakland 100 62 .617 -- Boston (A) 95 67 .586 5 Detroit 91 71 .562 9 Cleveland 89 73 .549 11 Tampa Bay 84 78 .519 16 New York (A) 75 87 .463 25 Minnesota 67 95 .414 33 Seattle 46 116 .284 54

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-1)	Oakland Athletics over Montreal Expos
AL League Series (4-3)	Oakland Athletics over Boston (A) Red Sox

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
BOS	5.0	810	162	5559	1376	268	29	190	639	1261	.248	.325	.409	.734
CLE	4.8	772	162	5600	1484	253	41	169	547	1104	.265	.330	.415	.746
OAK	4.5	737	162	5600	1432	246	47	133	536	872	.256	.321	.388	.708
DET	4.3	699	162	5634	1473	292	29	170	423	1028	.261	.313	.414	.727
NYA	4.1	667	162	5608	1447	249	29	133	454	1059	.258	.314	.384	.698
TAM	4.0	642	162	5501	1282	207	41	136	562	1215	.233	.304	.360	.664
MIN	3.6	578	162	5559	1276	228	46	104	428	1174	.230	.285	.343	.628
SEM	2.8	458	162	5335	1125	233	24	100	336	1257	.211	.258	.320	.577
Totals	4.1	5363	1296	44396	10895	1976	286	1135	3925	8970	.245	.307	.379	.686
Average		670	162	5550	1362	247	36	142	491	1121

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
BOS	3.6	582	162	3.30	1467.3	1280	7.9	426	2.6	1129	7.0	32
OAK	3.6	588	162	3.36	1481.0	1264	7.8	461	2.8	1233	7.6	30
DET	3.6	589	162	3.35	1473.7	1179	7.3	544	3.4	1293	8.0	43
TAM	3.8	622	162	3.54	1468.3	1432	8.8	367	2.3	1031	6.4	36
CLE	4.3	696	162	3.82	1449.3	1363	8.4	531	3.3	1247	7.7	35
NYA	4.3	697	162	3.93	1455.3	1338	8.3	479	3.0	1242	7.7	32
MIN	4.5	727	162	4.04	1462.3	1442	8.9	471	2.9	1002	6.2	22
SEM	5.1	831	162	4.74	1424.7	1413	8.7	590	3.6	868	5.4	14
Totals	4.1	5332	1296	3.76	11682.0	10711	8.3	3869	3.0	9045	7.0	244
Average		666	162		1460	1339		484		1131		30

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
BOS	105	57	-10	6	10	12	1	2	17	0.97	0.96	2,427,830		Brian Rodgers
DET	94	68	-3	6	13	1	1	3	25	1.08	1.13	2,222,216		Pie Traynor
CLE	89	73	0	4	15	1	1	1	8	0.97	1.05	1,763,132		Jason Morton
OAK	98	64	2	4	12	1	6	1	14	0.99	0.90	2,415,026		Marwan Najdawi
TAM	83	79	1	2	17	0	1	1	15	0.99	0.89	2,376,584		Ricky Sanford
MIN	64	98	3	1	17	0	0	3	30	0.95	0.92	1,104,131		Cookie Lavagetto
NYA	78	84	-3	1	12	0	1	1	4	1.03	1.11	1,543,302		Jason Spiegel
SEM	41	121	5	1	3	0	0	1	6	0.90	0.88	1,001,425		Peter Fletcher

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
OAK	300	142.35	105.28	52.34	8.45	3.61	11.59	5.25	6.77	16.67
BOS	285	149.88	93.39	41.70	8.58	2.69	4.83	4.60	6.26	14.75
DET	273	114.59	108.76	49.62	12.15	3.10	7.00	5.32	4.95	17.12
CLE	267	159.04	75.14	32.80	7.66	4.24	4.19	4.50	9.59	2.62
TAM	252	108.88	99.56	43.53	10.68	2.89	7.54	6.87	6.75	8.81
NYA	225	110.99	79.28	34.71	8.44	1.89	4.78	4.90	5.79	8.93
MIN	201	94.86	72.76	33.35	8.27	2.52	5.10	3.24	5.35	8.87
SEM	138	72.15	42.43	23.38	6.69	1.38	2.50	1.26	5.69	5.89

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Harmon Killebrew	BOS	.281, 53 HR, 129 RBI
Platinum Arm:	Gene Conley	OAK	26-6, 2.01, 349.7 IP, 333 K
Bronze Rookie:	Eddie Fisher	MIN	11-0, 13 SV, 2.41, 82.0 IP, 46 K
Gold Glove Winners
P	Bob Miller	BOS	1.000, 23 PO, 77 A, 0 E
C	Johnny Romano	DET	.996, 1077 PO, 46 A, 4 E 31.6% (12-38) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Daryl Spencer	SEM	.992, 1348 PO, 112 A, 12 E
2B	Jim Gilliam	OAK	.984, 273 PO, 551 A, 13 E
3B	Lee Walls	TAM	.983, 80 PO, 331 A, 7 E
SS	Gene Mauch	MIN	.976, 172 PO, 440 A, 15 E
LF	Vada Pinson	SEM	.990, 279 PO, 11 A, 3 E
CF	Duke Snider	BOS	.987, 365 PO, 6 A, 5 E
RF	Frank Robinson	BOS	.985, 257 PO, 6 A, 4 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

(*) indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet minimum plate appearances requirement.

Batting Average Cepeda DET .363 Herzog BOS .324 Pilarcik NYA .320* Siebern CLE .316 Brideweser OAK .309	On-Base Pct Cepeda DET .419 Herzog BOS .401 Siebern CLE .401 Killebrew BOS .391 Hazle DET .387	Slugging Pct Killebrew BOS .624 Cepeda DET .571 Siebern CLE .556 Adcock DET .556 Cash BOS .521	OPS Killebrew BOS 1.015 Cepeda DET .990 Siebern CLE .957 Cash BOS .908 Adcock DET .902
XR Killebrew BOS 128.3 Cepeda DET 120.2 Siebern CLE 117.5 Adcock DET 107.3 Cash BOS 105.9	Games Belardi OAK 158 Cimoli CLE 157 Killebrew BOS 157 Snider BOS 157 Hofman NYA 156	At-Bats Kuenn DET 649 Walls TAM 628 Brideweser OAK 619 Cepeda DET 608 Adcock DET 603	Runs Killebrew BOS 123 Siebern CLE 117 Belardi OAK 101 Cash BOS 100 Cepeda DET 98
Hits Cepeda DET 221 Brideweser OAK 191 Adcock DET 185 Siebern CLE 184 Hazle DET 180	Total Bases Killebrew BOS 348 Cepeda DET 347 Adcock DET 335 Siebern CLE 324 Hazle DET 286	Singles Brideweser OAK 154 Cepeda DET 141 Cimoli CLE 126 Walls TAM 125 Herzog BOS 124	Doubles Cepeda DET 56 Clemente CLE 45 Gilliam OAK 45 Hazle DET 45 Pinson SEM 42
Triples Gilliam OAK 10 Cimoli CLE 9 Clendenon MIN 9 Jackson NYA 7 Kirkland OAK 7	Homeruns Killebrew BOS 53 Adcock DET 40 Cash BOS 36 Siebern CLE 34 Snider BOS 34	RBIs Killebrew BOS 129 Adcock DET 120 Snider BOS 112 Siebern CLE 109 Cash BOS 105	Stolen Bases Brideweser OAK 30 Pinson SEM 30 Wood SEM 22 Gilliam OAK 17 Lockman OAK 16
Caught Stealing Wood SEM 13 Gilliam OAK 8 Pinson SEM 8 Lockman OAK 7 Blasingame NYA 6	Walks Killebrew BOS 100 Snider BOS 92 Cash BOS 85 Siebern CLE 85 Glaviano CLE 83	Strikeouts Jones MIN 175 Snider BOS 169 Killebrew BOS 160 Sadowski SEM 157 Glaviano CLE 148

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Conley OAK 2.01 Qualters NYA 2.05 Keriazakos CLE 2.28 Monzant BOS 2.45 Bridges OAK 2.58	Wins Conley OAK 26 Keriazakos CLE 24 Monzant BOS 22 Presko DET 22 Miller BOS 21	Losses Daley MIN 28 Anderson SEM 24 Drysdale NYA 21 Kiely TAM 20 Wickersham MIN 20	Winning Pct Conley OAK .813 Monzant BOS .710 Bridges OAK .706 Pierce OAK .690 Presko DET .667
Saves Littlefield DET 29 Naranjo OAK 20 Sanchez TAM 20 Pascual NYA 14 Fisher MIN 13	Games Pitched Pascual NYA 90 Kaiser NYA 83 Sanchez TAM 82 Grim CLE 76 Estrada OAK 69	Games Started Daley MIN 44 Duren NYA 44 Foytack MIN 44 Keriazakos CLE 44 Peterson DET 44	Complete Games Conley OAK 22 Delock CLE 19 Drysdale NYA 18 Wickersham MIN 18 Foytack MIN 14
Shutouts Conley OAK 3 Drabowsky CLE 3 Drysdale NYA 3 Kiely TAM 3 Anderson SEM 2	Innings Pitched Conley OAK 349.7 Foytack MIN 332.0 Peterson DET 328.3 Presko DET 326.3 Daley MIN 321.0	Hits Allowed Drysdale NYA 330 Daley MIN 328 Foytack MIN 326 Jester OAK 310 Terry TAM 310	Homeruns Allowed Pierce OAK 46 Anderson SEM 41 Drysdale NYA 41 Wickersham MIN 38 Drabowsky CLE 37
Strikeouts Peterson DET 390 Score BOS 369 Keriazakos CLE 345 Duren NYA 340 Conley OAK 333	Walks Allowed Duren NYA 151 Presko DET 143 Keriazakos CLE 129 Score BOS 128 Peterson DET 127	Walks per 9IP Hall NYA 0.9 Kiely TAM 1.1 Terry TAM 1.3 Miller BOS 1.4 Jester OAK 1.5	Hits per 9IP Score BOS 5.3 Qualters NYA 5.6 Peterson DET 6.0 Keriazakos CLE 6.0 Bridges OAK 6.0
Strikeouts per 9IP Score BOS 13.3 Duren NYA 10.8 Peterson DET 10.7 Lumenti TAM 10.4 Keriazakos CLE 9.7	WHiP Conley OAK 0.90 Qualters NYA 1.00 Peterson DET 1.05 Monzant BOS 1.05 Keriazakos CLE 1.07	OAVG Score BOS .168 Qualters NYA .177 Peterson DET .187 Keriazakos CLE .188 Duren NYA .190	OOBP Conley OAK .236 Qualters NYA .256 Monzant BOS .267 Peterson DET .273 Keriazakos CLE .273
OSLG Qualters NYA .240 Presko DET .276 Conley OAK .277 Keriazakos CLE .290 Peterson DET .297	OOPS Qualters NYA .496 Conley OAK .514 Presko DET .561 Keriazakos CLE .563 Peterson DET .570

League All-Stars
Joe Adcock	Wayne Belardi	Norm Cash
Orlando Cepeda	Harry Chiti	Gino Cimoli
Gene Conley	Don Ferrarese	Eddie Fisher
Randy Jackson	Virgil Jester	Gus Keriazakos
Harmon Killebrew	Whitey Lockman	Felix Mantilla
Bob Miller	Ramon Monzant	Vada Pinson
Joe Presko	Johnny Romano	Pete Runnels
Raul Sanchez	Herb Score	Norm Siebern
Lee Walls

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	Gene Conley	OAK	$ 22,100,000
2.	Joe Adcock	DET	$ 18,000,000
3.	Kent Peterson	DET	$ 16,000,000
4.	Eddie Yost	TAM	$ 14,000,000
5.	Ted Kluszewski	CLE	$ 12,500,000
6.	Duke Snider	BOS	$ 11,500,000
7.	Bob Miller	BOS	$ 10,030,000
8.	Ike Delock	CLE	$ 9,000,000
9.	Bobby Hofman	NYA	$ 8,170,000
10.	Bob Skinner	MIN	$ 7,750,000
11.	Harmon Killebrew	BOS	$ 7,128,571
12.	Al Kaline	MIN	$ 7,000,000
	Ryne Duren	NYA	$ 7,000,000
14.	Dean Stone	CLE	$ 6,750,000
15.	Gus Keriazakos	CLE	$ 6,650,000
16.	Hersh Freeman	NYA	$ 6,500,000
	Randy Jackson	NYA	$ 6,500,000
18.	Roy Sievers	TAM	$ 6,250,000
19.	Stu Miller	TAM	$ 6,100,000
	Jim Gilliam	OAK	$ 6,100,000
21.	Leo Kiely	TAM	$ 6,000,000
	Paul Foytack	MIN	$ 6,000,000
23.	Jackie Jensen	OAK	$ 5,500,000
24.	Dick Kokos	TAM	$ 5,470,000
25.	Whitey Lockman	OAK	$ 5,410,000

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