1960 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 1960 throughout the world.

Champions

Winter Leagues

Type	Name	Stat	Name	Stat
	American League		National League
AVG	Pete Runnels BOS	.320	Dick Groat PIT	.325
HR	Mickey Mantle NY	40	Ernie Banks CHC	41
RBI	Roger Maris NY	112	Hank Aaron MIL	126
Wins	Chuck Estrada BAL Jim Perry CLE	18	Ernie Broglio STL Warren Spahn MIL	21
ERA	Frank Baumann CHW	2.67	Mike McCormick SF	2.70
SO	Jim Bunning DET	201	Don Drysdale LA	246
SV	Mike Fornieles BOS Johnny Klippstein CLE	14	Lindy McDaniel STL	26
SB	Luis Aparicio CHW	51	Maury Wills LA	50

Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB

1st	New York Yankees	97	57	.630	--
2nd	Baltimore Orioles	89	65	.578	8.0
3rd	Chicago White Sox	87	67	.565	10.0
4th	Cleveland Indians	76	78	.494	21.0
5th	Washington Senators	73	81	.474	24.0
6th	Detroit Tigers	71	83	.461	26.0
7th	Boston Red Sox	65	89	.422	32.0
8th	Kansas City Athletics	58	96	.377	39.0

Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB

1st	Pittsburgh Pirates	95	59	.617	--
2nd	Milwaukee Braves	88	66	.571	7.0
3rd	St. Louis Cardinals	86	68	.558	9.0
4th	Los Angeles Dodgers	82	72	.532	13.0
5th	San Francisco Giants	79	75	.513	16.0
6th	Cincinnati Reds	67	87	.435	28.0
7th	Chicago Cubs	60	94	.390	35.0
8th	Philadelphia Phillies	59	95	.383	36.0

January 5 – The Continental League—the proposed third major league in North American professional baseball—gets an assurance of Congressional support from New York Senator Kenneth Keating.
January 11 – Centerfielder Richie Ashburn, the "heart and soul" of the Philadelphia Phillies for a dozen seasons, is traded to the Chicago Cubs for three players. Three years later, he will return as a member of the Phillies' broadcasting team and remain until his death in 1997.
January 26 – Reigning American League runs batted in champion and 1958 MVP Jackie Jensen, 32, announces his retirement from the Boston Red Sox because of airplane flight phobia. Jensen is a three-time All-Star as well as a three-time RBI champ (1955 and 1958, in addition to 1959), and the incumbent Gold Glove Award-winning rightfielder for the Junior Circuit. He will sit out the 1960 season, return to the Red Sox with diminished skills in 1961, then retire for good.
January 29 – The Continental League grants its eighth and final franchise to Buffalo. For the Western New York metropolis, the proposed debut of the CL in 1961 would restore Major League Baseball to the city for the first time since 1915, when the Buffalo Blues and its upstart Federal League disbanded.

February 4 – For the second straight election, the BBWAA voters fail to elect a new member to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Edd Roush gets 146 votes, but 202 are necessary for election. Sam Rice (143) and Eppa Rixey (142) are next in line.
February 15 – In Caribbean Series action, the Elefantes de Cienfuegos completes a 6–0 sweep to give the Cuban team the Series championship for the fifth straight year. Camilo Pascual, who went 2–0 with 15 strikeouts including a one-hit shutout in the clincher, is named Most Valuable Player.
February 18 – Walter O'Malley, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, finalizes the purchase of the Chavez Ravine area in Los Angeles by paying $494,000 for property valued at $92,000.
February 20 – Branch Rickey meets with officials of the proposed Western Carolinas League about pooling talent for Continental League clubs.
February 23 – Demolition of Ebbets Field begins. Lucy Monroe sings the National Anthem, and wheelchair-bound Roy Campanella is given an urn of dirt from behind home plate.

March 12 – The Cincinnati Reds sign Cuban prospect Tony Pérez, 17, as an amateur free agent. Pérez would go on to be a seven time all-star and key member of the Big Red Machine of the 1970s and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
March 13 – The Chicago White Sox unveil new road uniforms with the players' names above the number on the back, another innovation by Sox owner Bill Veeck.
March 16 – In the midst of spring training, the Cleveland Indians trade catcher Russ Nixon to the Boston Red Sox for former All-Star catcher Sammy White and first baseman Jim Marshall. On March 25, White—who has opened a bowling alley in Boston—announces his retirement at age 32, cancelling the trade.
March 24 – Commissioner Ford Frick says he will not allow the Continental League to pool players in the Western Carolinas League as it would violate existing major-minor league agreements.
March 26 – A Baltimore Orioles–Cincinnati Reds series scheduled for Havana, Cuba, is moved to Miami, Florida by Baltimore club president Lee MacPhail. The Reds, with a farm club in Cuba, want the trip, but the Orioles fear increased political unrest in the area.
March 31 – By a vote of 8–1, the Professional Baseball Rules Committee turns down a Pacific Coast League proposal to use a designated hitter for the pitcher.

April 1 – The Los Angeles Dodgers deal minor league prospect Clyde Parris to Toronto of the International League in exchange for Joe Altobelli.

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