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Wednesday June 24,1959This 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 1959-06-24

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Washington Senators I	4	Chicago White Sox	2	Box	Tex Clevenger	Dick Donovan	Hal Griggs
Baltimore Orioles	7	Cleveland Indians	4	Box	Hal Brown	Herb Score	Billy Loes
Boston Red Sox	4	Detroit Tigers	2	Box	Jack Harshman	Don Mossi	Mike Fornieles
New York Yankees	3	Kansas City Athletics	4	Box	Bud Daley	Jim Bronstad	(none)
Chicago Cubs	0	Cincinnati Reds	5	Box	Jim Brosnan	Dick Drott	(none)
Philadelphia Phillies	6	Los Angeles Dodgers	9	Box	Roger Craig	Don Cardwell	Clem Labine
St. Louis Cardinals	0	Milwaukee Braves	4	Box	Joey Jay	Dick Ricketts	(none)
Pittsburgh Pirates	3	San Francisco Giants	4	Box	Mike McCormick	Bennie Daniels	(none)

Standings as of 1959-06-24

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	Cleveland Indians	64	35	29	.547	--	300	260	40	22-12	13-17	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Frank Lane	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	90	54	36	.600
2	2	5	Baltimore Orioles	67	36	31	.537	0.5	253	282	-29	17-12	19-19	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Lee MacPhail	Memorial Stadium	87	38	49	.437
3	3	6	Chicago White Sox	66	35	31	.530	1.0	280	293	-13	20-14	14-18	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Hank Greenberg	Comiskey Park	88	59	29	.670
4	4	8	New York Yankees	66	34	32	.515	2.0	311	269	42	20-14	14-18	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Weiss	Yankee Stadium I	88	45	43	.511
5	5	9	Detroit Tigers	67	34	33	.507	2.5	316	336	-20	20-19	15-13	L4	T S R Log Off Def SP		Rick Ferrell	Briggs Stadium	87	42	45	.483
6	6	11	Boston Red Sox	64	30	34	.469	5.0	300	291	9	14-13	16-21	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bucky Harris	Fenway Park	90	45	45	.500
7	7	14	Washington Senators I	67	30	37	.448	6.5	298	316	-18	16-15	14-22	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Griffith Stadium	87	33	54	.379
8	8	15	Kansas City Athletics	63	28	35	.444	6.5	284	295	-11	15-19	13-16	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Parke Carroll	Municipal Stadium	91	38	53	.418
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	67	40	27	.597	--	314	281	33	18-15	21-13	W4	T S R Log Off Def SP	Fred Haney	John McHale	County Stadium	89	46	43	.517
2	2	2	San Francisco Giants	70	39	31	.557	2.5	344	292	52	19-15	20-16	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Seals Stadium	84	44	40	.524
3	3	4	Los Angeles Dodgers	72	39	33	.542	3.5	354	340	14	17-17	22-16	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	84	49	35	.583
4	4	7	Pittsburgh Pirates	73	38	35	.521	5.0	327	349	-22	18-18	20-17	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	81	40	41	.494
5	5	10	Chicago Cubs	66	33	33	.500	6.5	288	291	-3	19-16	14-17	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	88	41	47	.466
6	6	12	Cincinnati Reds	68	31	37	.456	9.5	333	345	-12	12-23	19-14	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	86	43	43	.500
7	7	13	St. Louis Cardinals	67	30	37	.448	10.0	314	302	12	11-22	19-15	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bing Devine	Sportsman's Park	87	41	46	.471
8	8	16	Philadelphia Phillies	67	25	42	.373	15.0	268	342	-74	9-26	16-16	L4	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Quinn	Connie Mack Stadium	87	39	48	.448

Transactions

Player Name	Pos	Age	Transaction Description	Roster for Current Team
Don Bryant	C	17.346	Signed as undrafted amateur Free Agent by Tigers.
Mel Wright	P	31.044	Signed as Free Agent by Cubs.
Mel Wright	P	31.044	Released by Cardinals.