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1966 American League Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
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Players Division Team W L WPct GB Seattle 107 55 .660 -- New York (A) 99 63 .611 8 Minnesota 86 76 .531 21 Toronto 69 93 .426 38 Detroit 51 111 .315 56	Union Division Team W L WPct GB Kansas City 107 55 .660 -- Boston (A) 93 69 .574 14 Cleveland (A) 66 96 .407 41 Oakland 61 101 .377 46 Tampa Bay 47 115 .290 60

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-2)	Cleveland (N) Spiders over Seattle Mariners
AL League Series (4-2)	Seattle Mariners over Kansas City Royals
AL Divisional Series (4-1)	Seattle Mariners over New York (A) Yankees
AL Divisional Series (4-1)	Kansas City Royals 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
KCR	5.2	836	162	5525	1439	219	34	213	663	1129	.260	.340	.428	.768
BOS	5.0	805	162	5486	1416	247	33	167	651	1048	.258	.337	.406	.743
SEM	4.9	793	162	5491	1425	226	44	135	650	877	.260	.338	.390	.728
NYA	4.6	739	162	5479	1456	278	31	133	555	1000	.266	.333	.401	.734
MIN	4.0	647	162	5584	1440	250	46	131	393	864	.258	.307	.390	.696
DET	3.9	624	162	5530	1291	267	28	148	405	1041	.233	.286	.372	.658
OAK	3.7	602	162	5475	1296	213	37	96	465	955	.237	.296	.342	.638
CLE	3.7	594	162	5629	1394	262	32	82	377	877	.248	.295	.349	.644
TOR	3.6	582	162	5431	1239	228	28	119	467	792	.228	.289	.346	.635
TAM	3.0	490	162	5419	1146	161	25	80	424	1245	.211	.269	.295	.563
Totals	4.1	6712	1620	55049	13542	2351	338	1304	5050	9828	.246	.309	.372	.681
Average		671	162	5505	1354	235	34	130	505	983

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
SEM	3.3	539	162	3.03	1460.7	1296	8.0	385	2.4	911	5.6	28
KCR	3.7	603	162	3.27	1473.0	1228	7.6	507	3.1	1144	7.1	36
NYA	3.9	634	162	3.55	1448.3	1287	7.9	503	3.1	1173	7.2	39
MIN	3.9	634	162	3.57	1467.0	1327	8.2	496	3.1	866	5.3	26
TOR	3.9	639	162	3.52	1456.7	1340	8.3	477	2.9	1115	6.9	29
BOS	4.4	720	162	4.12	1453.0	1368	8.4	494	3.0	1056	6.5	28
CLE	4.7	758	162	4.21	1474.3	1386	8.6	647	4.0	1001	6.2	28
OAK	4.8	781	162	4.40	1457.0	1455	9.0	538	3.3	1068	6.6	26
TAM	5.1	828	162	4.83	1444.0	1586	9.8	544	3.4	684	4.2	20
DET	5.4	881	162	4.90	1446.0	1543	9.5	604	3.7	819	5.1	21
Totals	4.3	7017	1620	3.94	14580.0	13816	8.5	5195	3.2	9837	6.1	281
Average		702	162		1458	1382		520		984		28

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
KCR	105	57	2	7	15	2	6	2	3	1.04	1.12	2,427,388		Ricky Sanford
NYA	92	70	7	5	18	0	1	2	6	1.04	1.05	2,198,097		Jason Spiegel
BOS	89	73	4	4	8	7	9	0	12	0.99	0.92	2,402,390		Brian Rodgers
MIN	83	79	3	4	16	1	0	2	22	1.05	0.98	2,382,320		Sam Mele
SEM	108	54	-1	4	12	5	2	1	13	0.93	0.92	2,229,027		Peter Fletcher
DET	56	106	-5	1	10	0	1	3	13	1.01	1.17	2,149,718		Pie Traynor
CLE	63	99	3	0	15	0	0	2	3	1.08	1.19	2,184,385		Jason Morton
OAK	62	100	-1	0	11	0	4	0	8	0.94	0.91	1,127,673		Marwan Najdawi
TAM	45	117	2	0	4	0	0	0	9	1.08	0.86	1,850,388		Jeff Randall
TOR	74	88	-5	0	10	0	4	1	8	0.98	0.87	984,452		Chuck Glidden

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
SEM	321	151.82	120.62	48.53	9.62	1.90	8.90	6.69	6.02	15.40
KCR	321	156.73	114.71	49.53	6.25	3.12	10.88	4.56	9.58	15.15
NYA	297	136.43	111.87	48.68	6.28	3.36	10.39	4.02	7.78	16.86
BOS	279	159.08	80.14	39.75	0.30	3.46	8.57	4.59	8.89	13.95
MIN	258	95.64	111.94	50.39	12.89	3.90	6.01	6.33	7.70	13.57
TOR	207	70.89	91.64	44.44	7.06	4.10	7.17	3.02	7.27	15.83
CLE	198	73.19	84.07	40.71	8.12	1.13	8.36	6.59	3.74	12.77
OAK	183	89.43	62.84	30.69	4.02	3.08	8.37	2.19	4.96	8.09
DET	153	89.27	42.36	21.34	8.53	0.76	3.72	1.02	3.32	4.00
TAM	141	40.94	62.47	37.56	7.10	4.02	0.93	8.21	11.13	6.18

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Harmon Killebrew	BOS	.331, 60 HR, 136 RBI
Platinum Arm:	Tom Qualters	NYA	20-10, 2.03, 279.7 IP, 230 K
Bronze Rookie:	John Gelnar	TOR	15-21, 2.93, 304.3 IP, 230 K
Gold Glove Winners
P	Dallas Green	TAM	.988, 20 PO, 64 A, 1 E
C	Johnny Romano	DET	.994, 685 PO, 94 A, 5 E 46.2% (61-132) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Donn Clendenon	MIN	.993, 1554 PO, 139 A, 12 E
2B	Dick McAuliffe	MIN	.976, 285 PO, 518 A, 20 E
3B	Dick Williams	TAM	.968, 105 PO, 321 A, 14 E
SS	Reno Bertoia	TAM	.986, 227 PO, 494 A, 10 E
LF	Orlando Cepeda	DET	.997, 276 PO, 10 A, 1 E
CF	Vada Pinson	SEM	.994, 329 PO, 9 A, 2 E
RF	Frank Robinson	BOS	.984, 308 PO, 3 A, 5 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

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

Batting Average Killebrew BOS .331 Shannon KCR .317 Schaal BOS .317 Torre BOS .313 Cepeda DET .311	On-Base Pct Killebrew BOS .444 Briggs SEM .413 Mathews NYA .403 Haller SEM .392 Schaal BOS .390	Slugging Pct Killebrew BOS .745 Briggs SEM .497 Geiger   .496 White BOS .488* Robinson BOS .484	OPS Killebrew BOS 1.189 Briggs SEM .910 Geiger   .853 Allen KCR .852 Robinson BOS .848
XR Killebrew BOS 148.5 Briggs SEM 113.9 Allen KCR 103.4 Robinson BOS 101.0 Pinson SEM 100.5	Games Robinson NYA 159 Bertoia TAM 157 Bond DET 157 Causey KCR 157 Cepeda DET 157	At-Bats Cepeda DET 607 Pinson SEM 598 Causey KCR 597 Morgan SEM 595 Bond DET 594	Runs Killebrew BOS 122 Pinson SEM 111 Allen KCR 105 Ward NYA 104 Robinson BOS 102
Hits Cepeda DET 189 Causey KCR 179 Shannon KCR 178 Schaal BOS 177 Alou CLE 174	Total Bases Killebrew BOS 383 Pinson SEM 289 Cepeda DET 278 Mays MIN 277 Robinson BOS 277	Singles Schaal BOS 142 Causey KCR 140 Torre BOS 140 Shannon KCR 138 Cepeda DET 137	Doubles Clemente DET 47 Pinson SEM 39 Ward NYA 38 Robinson NYA 36 Robinson BOS 36
Triples Clendenon MIN 10 McAuliffe MIN 9 Allen KCR 8 Kirkland OAK 8 Skinner TAM 8	Homeruns Killebrew BOS 60 Briggs SEM 27 Bryan KCR 27 Robinson BOS 27 Mays MIN 26	RBIs Killebrew BOS 136 Pinson SEM 109 Geiger   103 Briggs SEM 100 White BOS 99	Stolen Bases Morgan SEM 73 Campaneris SEM 56 Wood SEM 44 Pinson SEM 41 Allen KCR 38
Caught Stealing Morgan SEM 31 Campaneris SEM 23 Wood SEM 19 Allen KCR 13 Mays MIN 13	Walks Briggs SEM 126 Mathews NYA 115 Morgan SEM 113 Killebrew BOS 108 Wynn KCR 107	Strikeouts Allen KCR 172 Bertoia TAM 147 Robinson BOS 140 Jones BOS 136 Altman TAM 132

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Qualters NYA 2.03 Reniff SEM 2.24 Sheldon SEM 2.53 Hamilton NYA 2.69 Murakami TOR 2.81	Wins Conley KCR 25 Reniff SEM 22 Chance SEM 21 Drysdale NYA 21 John BOS 21	Losses Friend DET 25 Bruce TAM 24 Green TAM 24 Carlton OAK 23 Delock CLE 21	Winning Pct Sheldon SEM .769 Conley KCR .735 Reniff SEM .733 Carpin KCR .722 Carroll KCR .706
Saves Segui BOS 22 Duliba MIN 19 Hands CLE 19 Locker KCR 19 Willis TOR 16	Games Pitched Muffett DET 96 Kipp DET 93 Regan SEM 85 Locker KCR 81 Schaffernoth NYA 81	Games Started Bruce TAM 45 Gelnar TOR 44 Murakami TOR 44 Wilson TAM 44 Baumann DET 42	Complete Games Wickersham MIN 25 Delock CLE 17 Drysdale NYA 17 Carlton OAK 16 Cuellar TOR 16
Shutouts Delock CLE 4 Wickersham MIN 4 Beamon DET 3 Carlton OAK 3 Drysdale NYA 3	Innings Pitched Moeller MIN 332.7 Wickersham MIN 331.0 Delock CLE 328.0 Chance SEM 327.3 Sheldon SEM 326.7	Hits Allowed Friend DET 413 John BOS 353 Moeller MIN 336 Delock CLE 329 Bruce TAM 321	Homeruns Allowed Baumann DET 41 Delock CLE 40 Sutton KCR 40 Friend DET 37 Score BOS 37
Strikeouts Score BOS 369 Murakami TOR 335 Sutton KCR 314 Conley KCR 263 Drysdale NYA 258	Walks Allowed Score BOS 151 Keriazakos CLE 149 Beamon DET 141 Carlton OAK 128 Miller TOR 124	Walks per 9IP Sheldon SEM 0.9 Stobbs BOS 1.1 Gelnar TOR 1.2 Drysdale NYA 2.0 Hamilton NYA 2.2	Hits per 9IP Score BOS 5.8 Keriazakos CLE 6.1 Reniff SEM 6.5 Murakami TOR 6.7 Beamon DET 6.8
Strikeouts per 9IP Score BOS 12.0 Murakami TOR 10.5 Keriazakos CLE 9.1 Lemay KCR 8.9 Lumenti NYA 8.9	WHiP Stobbs BOS 1.02 Sheldon SEM 1.03 Murakami TOR 1.03 Qualters NYA 1.05 Reniff SEM 1.07	OAVG Score BOS .181 Keriazakos CLE .191 Reniff SEM .201 Murakami TOR .205 Qualters NYA .209	OOBP Stobbs BOS .264 Sheldon SEM .264 Qualters NYA .267 Murakami TOR .269 Reniff SEM .274
OSLG Reniff SEM .261 Qualters NYA .276 Keriazakos CLE .298 Lemay KCR .311 Beamon DET .333	OOPS Reniff SEM .535 Qualters NYA .543 Stobbs BOS .598 Lemay KCR .599 Murakami TOR .607

League All-Stars
Johnny Briggs	Billy Bryan	Frank Carpin
Wayne Causey	Orlando Cepeda	Dean Chance
Donn Clendenon	Gene Conley	Bud Daley
Don Drysdale	Bob Duliba	Bob Hazle
Harmon Killebrew	Bob Locker	Eddie Mathews
Vada Pinson	Tom Qualters	Hal Reniff
Earl Robinson	Frank Robinson	Paul Schaal
Mike Shannon	Chuck Stobbs	Joe Torre
Pete Ward

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	Gene Conley	KCR	$ 24,100,000
2.	Don Drysdale	NYA	$ 14,190,000
3.	Harmon Killebrew	BOS	$ 13,930,000
4.	Tom Qualters	NYA	$ 12,100,000
5.	Willie Mays	MIN	$ 11,080,000
6.	Chuck Stobbs	BOS	$ 10,780,000
7.	Bud Daley	MIN	$ 8,760,000
8.	Ken Boyer	MIN	$ 8,000,000
	Ike Delock	CLE	$ 8,000,000
10.	Orlando Cepeda	DET	$ 7,840,000
11.	Bob Friend	DET	$ 7,700,000
12.	Al Kaline	MIN	$ 7,500,000
	Don Larsen	TOR	$ 7,500,000
14.	Norm Siebern	NYA	$ 7,350,000
15.	Bill White	BOS	$ 7,250,000
16.	Frank Baumann	DET	$ 7,200,000
17.	Charlie Beamon	DET	$ 7,128,571
18.	Frank Robinson	BOS	$ 6,750,000
19.	Herb Score	BOS	$ 6,650,000
20.	Willie McCovey	BOS	$ 6,500,000
	Bill Skowron	KCR	$ 6,500,000
22.	Milt Pappas	CLE	$ 6,310,000
23.	Gus Keriazakos	CLE	$ 6,300,000
24.	Walt Bond	DET	$ 5,750,000
25.	Vada Pinson	SEM	$ 5,700,000

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