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Saturday May 16,1959This 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 1959-05-16

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Detroit Tigers	1	Baltimore Orioles	6	Box	Hoyt Wilhelm	Frank Lary	(none)
Cleveland Indians	12	Boston Red Sox	6	Box	Herb Score	Frank Baumann	(none)
Chicago White Sox	4	New York Yankees	3	Box	Turk Lown	Art Ditmar	(none)
Kansas City Athletics	2	Washington Senators I	7	Box	Camilo Pascual	Ralph Terry	(none)
Pittsburgh Pirates	2	Chicago Cubs	3	Box	Don Elston	Harvey Haddix	(none)
Milwaukee Braves	6	Los Angeles Dodgers	0	Box	Bob Buhl	Danny McDevitt	(none)
Cincinnati Reds	2	San Francisco Giants	9	Box	Johnny Antonelli	Brooks Lawrence	(none)
Philadelphia Phillies	2	St. Louis Cardinals	8	Box	Gary Blaylock	Jim Owens	(none)

Standings as of 1959-05-16

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	27	18	9	.667	--	156	97	59	9-3	9-6	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Frank Lane	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	127	71	56	.559
2	2	3	Chicago White Sox	30	19	11	.633	0.5	153	137	16	11-3	7-9	W8	T S R Log Off Def SP		Hank Greenberg	Comiskey Park	124	75	49	.605
3	3	4	Baltimore Orioles	30	17	13	.567	2.5	113	124	-11	10-6	7-7	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Lee MacPhail	Memorial Stadium	124	57	67	.460
4	4	9	Washington Senators I	32	16	16	.500	4.5	147	136	11	10-9	6-7	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Griffith Stadium	122	47	75	.385
5	5	11	Kansas City Athletics	28	13	15	.464	5.5	129	146	-17	5-7	8-8	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Parke Carroll	Municipal Stadium	126	53	73	.421
6	6	12	Boston Red Sox	29	12	17	.414	7.0	137	143	-6	7-8	5-9	L5	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bucky Harris	Fenway Park	125	63	62	.504
7	7	13	New York Yankees	27	11	16	.407	7.0	108	108	0	8-9	3-7	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Weiss	Yankee Stadium I	127	68	59	.535
8	8	16	Detroit Tigers	29	10	19	.345	9.0	124	176	-52	2-9	9-9	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Rick Ferrell	Briggs Stadium	125	66	59	.528
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	2	Milwaukee Braves	28	18	10	.643	--	143	114	29	7-4	10-7	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP	Fred Haney	John McHale	County Stadium	128	68	60	.531
2	2	5	San Francisco Giants	31	17	14	.548	2.5	154	119	35	9-6	8-8	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Seals Stadium	123	66	57	.537
3	3	6	Los Angeles Dodgers	33	18	15	.545	2.5	164	171	-7	10-9	8-6	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	123	70	53	.569
4	4	7	Cincinnati Reds	30	16	14	.533	3.0	164	158	6	5-8	11-6	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	124	58	66	.468
5	5	8	Chicago Cubs	32	17	15	.531	3.0	143	138	5	10-10	7-5	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	122	57	65	.467
6	6	10	Pittsburgh Pirates	32	15	17	.469	5.0	135	160	-25	7-7	8-10	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	122	63	59	.516
7	7	14	St. Louis Cardinals	33	13	20	.394	7.5	154	158	-4	6-11	7-9	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bing Devine	Sportsman's Park	121	58	63	.479
8	8	15	Philadelphia Phillies	31	11	20	.355	8.5	134	173	-39	4-12	7-8	L7	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Quinn	Connie Mack Stadium	123	53	70	.431

Transactions

Player Name	Pos	Age	Transaction Description	Roster for Current Team
Granny Hamner	IF	32.020	Traded by Phillies to Indians for Humberto Robinson.
Humberto Robinson	P	28.325	Traded by Indians to Phillies for Granny Hamner.