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Tuesday July 21,1959This date in baseball
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Mark Williamson celebrated a birthday on this date.

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 1959-07-21

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Boston Red Sox	1	Chicago White Sox	2	Box	Dick Donovan	Tom Brewer	(none)
New York Yankees	1	Cleveland Indians	5	Box	Cal McLish	Bobby Shantz	(none)
Washington Senators I	1	Detroit Tigers	8	Box	Paul Foytack	Bill Fischer	(none)
Baltimore Orioles	1	Kansas City Athletics	8	Box	Bud Daley	Milt Pappas	(none)
Cincinnati Reds	12	Milwaukee Braves	2	Box	Don Newcombe	Lew Burdette	(none)
Philadelphia Phillies	4	Pittsburgh Pirates	2	Box	Robin Roberts	Bob Friend	(none)
Los Angeles Dodgers	1	San Francisco Giants	0	Box	Roger Craig	Sam Jones	(none)
Chicago Cubs	8	St. Louis Cardinals	2	Box	Art Ceccarelli	Larry Jackson	(none)

Standings as of 1959-07-21

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	1	Cleveland Indians	89	51	38	.573	--	431	367	64	30-18	21-20	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Frank Lane	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	65	38	27	.585
2	2	2	Chicago White Sox	91	52	39	.571	--	397	396	1	28-20	23-20	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Hank Greenberg	Comiskey Park	63	42	21	.667
3	3	6	Baltimore Orioles	92	48	44	.522	4.5	343	380	-37	22-18	26-26	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Lee MacPhail	Memorial Stadium	62	26	36	.419
4	4	8	New York Yankees	92	46	46	.500	6.5	413	394	19	24-24	22-22	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Weiss	Yankee Stadium I	62	33	29	.532
5	5	11	Washington Senators I	91	43	48	.473	9.0	403	416	-13	20-20	23-28	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Griffith Stadium	63	20	43	.317
6	6	12	Detroit Tigers	94	44	50	.468	9.5	434	463	-29	23-29	22-20	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Rick Ferrell	Briggs Stadium	60	32	28	.533
7	7	14	Kansas City Athletics	89	40	49	.449	11.0	400	410	-10	21-26	19-23	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Parke Carroll	Municipal Stadium	65	26	39	.400
8	8	15	Boston Red Sox	90	40	50	.444	11.5	434	429	5	17-24	23-26	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bucky Harris	Fenway Park	64	35	29	.547
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	3	San Francisco Giants	93	52	41	.559	--	430	360	70	30-21	22-20	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Seals Stadium	61	31	30	.508
2	2	4	Los Angeles Dodgers	96	53	43	.552	0.5	443	423	20	27-25	26-18	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	60	35	25	.583
3	3	5	Milwaukee Braves	86	46	40	.535	2.5	388	363	25	20-24	25-17	L7	T S R Log Off Def SP	Fred Haney	John McHale	County Stadium	70	40	30	.571
4	4	7	Pittsburgh Pirates	94	48	46	.511	4.5	399	433	-34	20-22	28-24	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	60	30	30	.500
5	5	9	Chicago Cubs	88	44	44	.500	5.5	371	374	-3	23-21	21-23	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	66	30	36	.455
6	6	10	St. Louis Cardinals	93	46	47	.495	6.0	440	434	6	20-26	26-21	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bing Devine	Sportsman's Park	61	25	36	.410
7	7	13	Cincinnati Reds	91	41	50	.451	10.0	463	457	6	18-29	23-21	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	63	33	30	.524
8	8	16	Philadelphia Phillies	91	36	55	.396	15.0	353	443	-90	11-29	25-26	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Quinn	Connie Mack Stadium	63	28	35	.444

Transactions

Player Name	Pos	Age	Transaction Description	Roster for Current Team
Bobby Avila	2B	35.110	Claimed on waivers by Braves from Red Sox.