1969 Oakland Athletics season

The 1969 Oakland Athletics season involved the A's compiling a record of 88 wins and 74 losses. With its expansion to 12 teams in 1969, the American League had been divided into two 6-team divisions. In their first year in the newly established American League West, the Athletics finished second, nine games behind the Minnesota Twins. It was the first time they had finished in the first division since 1952. Paid attendance for the season was 778,232.[1]

1969 Oakland Athletics
Major League affiliations
Location
Results
Record88–74 (.543)
Other information
Owner(s)Charles O. Finley
Manager(s)Hank Bauer, John McNamara
Local televisionKBHK
Local radioKNBR
(Monte Moore, Al Helfer)
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Offseason

Regular season
  • Reggie Jackson hit 47 home runs in 1969, and was briefly ahead of the pace that Roger Maris set when he broke the single-season record for home runs with 61 in 1961, and that of Babe Ruth when he set the previous record of 60 in 1927.
  • The club ranked second in the American League Western division. With 13 games left in the season, Hank Bauer was replaced as Field Manager by John McNamara. McNamara compiled a won loss record of 8–5 to help the A's finish with 88 wins and 74 losses. An improved of six wins compared to the past season.

Season standings
AL West W L Pct. GB Home Road
Minnesota Twins 9765 0.599 — 57–24 40–41
Oakland Athletics 8874 0.543 9 49–32 39–42
California Angels 7191 0.438 26 43–38 28–53
Kansas City Royals 6993 0.426 28 36–45 33–48
Chicago White Sox 6894 0.420 29 41–40 27–54
Seattle Pilots 6498 0.395 33 34–47 30–51

Record vs. opponents
1969 American League Records

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIN NYY OAK SEA WSH
Baltimore —10–86–69–313–511–711–18–411–78–49–313–5
Boston 8–10—8–45–712–610–810–27–511–74–86–66–12
California 6–64–8—9–98–45–79–97–113–96–129–9–15–7
Chicago 3–97–59–9—8–43–98–105–133–98–1010–84–8
Cleveland 5–136–124–84–8—7–117–55–79–85–77–53–15
Detroit 7–118–107–59–311–7—8–46–610–87–510–27–11
Kansas City 1–112–109–910–85–74–8—8–105–7–18–1010–87–5
Minnesota 4–85–711–713–57–56–610–8—10–213–512–66–6
New York 7–117–119–39–38–98–107–5–12–10—6–67–510–8
Oakland 4–88–412–610–87–55–710–85–136–6—13–58–4
Seattle 3–96–69–9–18–105–72–108–106–125–75–13—7–5
Washington 5–1312–67–58–415–311–75–76–68–104–85–7—

Opening Day starters

Notable transactions
  • June 5, 1969: 1969 Major League Baseball Draft (June Draft) notable picks:[5]
Round 1: Don Stanhouse (9th pick).[6]
Round 2: Tommy Sandt
Round 3: Steve Lawson
Round 6: Jim Sundberg (did not sign)[7]
Round 8: Glenn Abbott
Round 13: John Stearns (did not sign)
Round 19: Charlie Chant

Reggie Jackson

In the offseason, Jackson demanded a salary increase from $10,000 to $25,000. Jackson would settle at $20,000. Reggie Jackson hit two home runs versus the Washington Senators, with President Richard Nixon in the crowd.[9] By July 1, the A's had played in 71 games and Jackson had hit 30 home runs, 62 RBI, .287 batting average and a 1.145 OPS.[10] On July 2, Reggie Jackson would hit three home runs versus the Seattle Pilots to raise his season total to 34 home runs. He was on pace to break the home run record set by Roger Maris eight years earlier. By the end of July, Jackson had 40 home runs but he only hit 5 home runs in August. In September, Jackson was hospitalized with a skin rash and was only able to hit 2 home runs.[11] Jackson still managed to lead the American League with 123 runs scored.[12]

Roster
1969 Oakland Athletics
Roster
Pitchers
  • 20 Lew Krausse
  • 22 Ed Sprague
 Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CPhil Roof10624758.235219
1BDanny Cater152584153.2621076
2BDick Green136483133.2751264
3BSal Bando162609171.28131113
SSBert Campaneris135547142.260225
LFTommie Reynolds10731581.257220
CFRick Monday122399108.2711254
RFReggie Jackson152549151.27547118

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Ted Kubiak9230576.249227
José Tartabull7526671.267011
Mike Hershberger5112926.202110
Dave Duncan5812716.126322
Joe Rudi3512223.18926
Larry Haney538613.151212
Tito Francona328529.341320
Bobby Brooks297919.241310
Ray Webster647720.260113
Bob Johnson516723.34319
Gene Tenace16386.15812
Jim Pagliaroni14274.14812
Bill McNulty5170.00000
John Donaldson12131.07700
Tony La Russa880.00000
Joe Nossek1360.00000
Allan Lewis1210.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Catfish Hunter3824712153.35150
Chuck Dobson35235.115133.86137
Blue Moon Odom32231.11562.92150
Jim Nash26115.1883.6775

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Lew Krausse43140774.4485
George Lauzerique1961.1344.7039
Vida Blue1242116.6424
Fred Talbot1219125.219

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Rollie Fingers6067123.7161
Paul Lindblad609694.1464
Jim Roland395112.1948
Marcel Lachemann284123.9516
Ed Sprague271124.4720
John Wyatt40105.405
Juan Pizarro31112.354

[13]

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Iowa Oaks American Association Jimmy Williams
AA Birmingham A's Southern League Gus Niarhos
A Lodi Crushers California League Billy Klaus and Eli Grba
A Burlington Bees Midwest League Roy Sievers
A-Short Season Tri-City A's Northwest League Billy Herman

References
  1. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.126, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
  2. Joe Keough page at Baseball Reference
  3. Darrell Evans page at Baseball Reference
  4. http://baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster.php?y=1969&t=OAK
  5. 1969 Oakland Athletics Picks in the MLB June Amateur Draft
  6. Don Stanhouse page at Baseball Reference
  7. Jim Sundberg page at Baseball Reference
  8. John Donaldson page at Baseball Reference
  9. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.129, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
  10. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.129, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
  11. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.130, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
  12. Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.131, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
  13. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/OAK/1969.shtml
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