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Saturday June 6,1959This date in baseball
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Events that happened in baseball on this date. The page was designed to be like a newspaper sports page with baseball-only. All of the basbeall events for this date have been consolidated into this page. Though historically relevant, it is also a great place to review the prior day's events.

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Month	Day	Year

Games on 1959-06-06

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Boston Red Sox	4	Chicago White Sox	2	Box	Ted Wills	Ray Moore	Mike Fornieles
New York Yankees	2	Cleveland Indians	1	Box	Bob Turley	Don Ferrarese	(none)
Washington Senators I	1	Detroit Tigers	4	Box	Paul Foytack	Tex Clevenger	(none)
Baltimore Orioles	1	Kansas City Athletics	5	Box	Bud Daley	Hal Brown	(none)
San Francisco Giants	13	Cincinnati Reds	3	Box	Sam Jones	Bob Purkey	(none)
Los Angeles Dodgers	3	Milwaukee Braves	2	Box	Sandy Koufax	Bob Rush	Clem Labine
St. Louis Cardinals	3	Philadelphia Phillies	4	Box	Robin Roberts	Lindy McDaniel	(none)
Chicago Cubs	8	Pittsburgh Pirates	2	Box	Moe Drabowsky	Bennie Daniels	(none)

Standings as of 1959-06-06

Record in remaining games at far right

Rk	Lg	MLB	AL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1959 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	3	Chicago White Sox	50	28	22	.560	--	223	221	2	15-7	12-16	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Hank Greenberg	Comiskey Park	104	66	38	.635
2	2	4	Cleveland Indians	47	25	22	.532	1.5	212	177	35	13-8	12-14	L7	T S R Log Off Def SP		Frank Lane	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	107	64	43	.598
3	3	5	Baltimore Orioles	51	27	24	.529	1.5	181	218	-37	14-12	13-12	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Lee MacPhail	Memorial Stadium	103	47	56	.456
4	4	9	Kansas City Athletics	46	23	23	.500	3.0	219	200	19	11-10	12-13	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Parke Carroll	Municipal Stadium	108	43	65	.398
5	5	10	Detroit Tigers	49	24	25	.490	3.5	227	255	-28	11-13	14-11	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Rick Ferrell	Briggs Stadium	105	52	53	.495
6	6	11	New York Yankees	47	23	24	.489	3.5	211	187	24	17-12	6-12	W4	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Weiss	Yankee Stadium I	107	56	51	.523
7	7	13	Washington Senators I	51	23	28	.451	5.5	221	231	-10	15-13	8-15	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Griffith Stadium	103	40	63	.388
8	8	14	Boston Red Sox	47	21	26	.447	5.5	218	223	-5	11-12	10-14	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bucky Harris	Fenway Park	107	54	53	.505
Rk	Lg	MLB	NL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1959 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	1	Milwaukee Braves	50	30	20	.600	--	226	205	21	12-8	17-13	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP	Fred Haney	John McHale	County Stadium	106	56	50	.528
2	2	2	San Francisco Giants	51	29	22	.569	1.5	257	196	61	14-10	15-12	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Seals Stadium	103	54	49	.524
4	4	7	Pittsburgh Pirates	53	28	25	.528	3.5	231	256	-25	13-13	15-12	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	101	50	51	.495
3	3	6	Los Angeles Dodgers	53	28	25	.528	3.5	255	260	-5	14-12	14-13	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	103	60	43	.583
5	5	8	Chicago Cubs	50	26	24	.520	4.0	229	220	9	16-14	10-10	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	104	48	56	.462
6	6	12	Cincinnati Reds	51	24	27	.471	6.5	260	274	-14	7-15	17-12	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	103	50	53	.485
7	7	15	Philadelphia Phillies	49	19	30	.388	10.5	207	247	-40	7-19	12-11	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Quinn	Connie Mack Stadium	105	45	60	.429
8	8	16	St. Louis Cardinals	49	19	30	.388	10.5	224	231	-7	10-19	9-11	L6	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bing Devine	Sportsman's Park	105	52	53	.495

Transactions

Player Name	Pos	Age	Transaction Description	Roster for Current Team
Jim Bolger	OF	27.104	Traded by Indians with Cash to Phillies for Willie Jones.
Ray Culp	P	17.304	Signed as undrafted amateur Free Agent by Phillies.
Clarence Jones	OF-1B	17.211	Signed as undrafted amateur Free Agent by Phillies.
Willie Jones	3B	33.294	Traded by Phillies to Indians for Jim Bolger and Cash.
Charlie O'Rourke	H	21.349	Signed as undrafted amateur Free Agent by Cardinals.