1965 MLB Season in Review - The Baseball Cube

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A high-level summary of the 1965 Major League Baseball Season. The page includes standings, team totals and leaderboards. There is a lot more information on the season in various sub-sections such as the player register, team pages and boxscore-related pages.

Season Information

Season

1965

World Series Champions

Los Angeles Dodgers

Runner Up

Minnesota Twins

Most Valuable Players

AL: Zoilo Versalles NL: Willie Mays

Cy Young Winners

AL: NL:

Rookies of the Year

AL: Curt Blefary NL: Jim Lefebvre

Managers of the Year

AL: NL:

#1 Draft Pick

Rick Monday (Kansas City Athletics)

All-Star Game

Bloomington,Minnesota

Teams

Players

698

Attendance

22,441,900

Payroll

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1965 Major League Baseball Standings

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Grid Filters		Playoff Team
American League -
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	1	Minnesota Twins	T - S - R - L	162	102	60	.630	--	774	600	174	Lost World Series (Dodgers)	1,463,258	5	Calvin Griffith	Sam Mele	Metropolitan Stadium
2	2	4	Chicago White Sox	T - S - R - L	162	95	67	.586	7.0	647	555	92	dnq	1,130,519	9	Ed Short	Al Lopez	Comiskey Park
3	3	5	Baltimore Orioles	T - S - R - L	162	94	68	.580	8.0	641	578	63	dnq	781,649	14	Lee MacPhail	Hank Bauer	Memorial Stadium
4	4	8	Detroit Tigers	T - S - R - L	162	89	73	.549	13.0	680	602	78	dnq	1,029,645	11	Jim Campbell	Chuck Dressen, Bob Swift	Tiger Stadium
5	5	9	Cleveland Indians	T - S - R - L	162	87	75	.537	15.0	663	613	50	dnq	934,786	12	Gabe Paul	Birdie Tebbetts	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
6	6	13	New York Yankees	T - S - R - L	162	77	85	.475	25.0	611	604	7	dnq	1,213,552	7	Ralph Houk	Johnny Keane	Yankee Stadium I
7	7	14	California Angels	T - S - R - L	162	75	87	.463	27.0	527	569	-42	dnq	566,727	17	Fred Haney	Bill Rigney	Dodger Stadium
8	8	16	Washington Senators II	T - S - R - L	162	70	92	.432	32.0	591	721	-130	dnq	560,083	18	George Selkirk	Gil Hodges	RFK Memorial Stadium
9	9	18	Boston Red Sox	T - S - R - L	162	62	100	.383	40.0	669	791	-122	dnq	652,201	15	Pinky Higgins	Billy Herman	Fenway Park
10	10	19	Kansas City Athletics	T - S - R - L	162	59	103	.364	43.0	585	755	-170	dnq	528,344	20	Pat Friday, Hank Peters	Haywood Sullivan, Mel McGaha	Municipal Stadium
National League -
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	1	2	Los Angeles Dodgers	T - S - R - L	162	97	65	.599	--	608	521	87	Won World Series (Twins)	2,553,577	1	Buzzie Bavasi	Walter Alston	Dodger Stadium
2	2	3	San Francisco Giants	T - S - R - L	162	95	67	.586	2.0	682	593	89	dnq	1,546,075	4	Chub Feeney	Herman Franks	Candlestick Park
3	3	6	Pittsburgh Pirates	T - S - R - L	162	90	72	.556	7.0	675	580	95	dnq	909,279	13	Joe Brown	Harry Walker	Forbes Field
4	4	7	Cincinnati Reds	T - S - R - L	162	89	73	.549	8.0	825	704	121	dnq	1,047,824	10	Bill DeWitt	Dick Sisler	Crosley Field
5	5	10	Milwaukee Braves	T - S - R - L	162	86	76	.531	11.0	708	633	75	dnq	555,584	19	John McHale	Bobby Bragan	County Stadium
6	6	11	Philadelphia Phillies	T - S - R - L	161	85	76	.528	11.5	654	667	-13	dnq	1,166,376	8	John Quinn	Gene Mauch	Connie Mack Stadium
7	7	12	St. Louis Cardinals	T - S - R - L	161	80	81	.497	16.5	707	674	33	dnq	1,241,201	6	Bob Howsam	Red Schoendienst	Sportsman's Park
8	8	15	Chicago Cubs	T - S - R - L	162	72	90	.444	25.0	635	723	-88	dnq	641,361	16	John Holland	Lou Klein, Bob Kennedy	Wrigley Field
9	9	17	Houston Astros	T - S - R - L	162	65	97	.401	32.0	569	711	-142	dnq	2,151,470	2	Paul Richards	Lum Harris	Astrodome
10	10	20	New York Mets	T - S - R - L	162	50	112	.309	47.0	495	752	-257	dnq	1,768,389	3	George Weiss	Casey Stengel, Wes Westrum	Shea Stadium
20 record(s)

Glossary:
Rank If team context, indicates Divisional Rank LgRank Rank within a League. For MLB, refers to AL or NL MLBRank Rank in all of Major League Baseball for the season Team Name Contextual to the grid but usually self-evident. Draft = Drafted team. G Games Played (or Pitched) W Wins (Pitcher or Team) L Losses (Pitcher or Team) WPct Winning Percentage (W/(W+L)) GBL Games behind leader. ((Team A Wins-Team B Wins) + (Team A Losses-Team B Losses))/2 RF Runs For RA Runs Against Diff Run Differential. RF-RA Playoffs Playoff participation description. Attendance Number of people paying for tickets for games Att Rank Attendance rank within the league Ballpark Team or School's ballpark for the season

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