1969 MLB Season in Review - The Baseball Cube

Standings Totals Player Register Batting Leaders Pitching Leaders Award Winners Debuts Deaths Calendar

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A high-level summary of the 1969 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

1969

World Series Champions

New York Mets

Runner Up

Baltimore Orioles

Most Valuable Players

AL: Harmon Killebrew NL: Willie McCovey

Cy Young Winners

AL: Mike Cuellar NL: Tom Seaver

Rookies of the Year

AL: Lou Piniella NL: Ted Sizemore

Managers of the Year

AL: NL:

#1 Draft Pick

Burroughs Jeff (Washington Senators)

All-Star Game

Washington,District of Columbia

Teams

Players

849

Attendance

27,229,666

Payroll

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1969 Major League Baseball Standings

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Grid Filters		Playoff Team
American League East
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	Baltimore Orioles	T - S - R - L	162	109	53	.673	--	779	517	262	Lost World Series (Mets)	1,062,069	12	Harry Dalton	Earl Weaver	Memorial Stadium
2	3	7	Detroit Tigers	T - S - R - L	162	90	72	.556	19.0	701	601	100	dnq	1,577,481	6	Jim Campbell	Mayo Smith	Tiger Stadium
3	5	11	Boston Red Sox	T - S - R - L	162	87	75	.537	22.0	743	736	7	dnq	1,833,246	2	Dick O'Connell	Dick Williams, Eddie Popowski	Fenway Park
4	6	13	Washington Senators II	T - S - R - L	162	86	76	.531	23.0	694	644	50	dnq	918,106	14	Bob Short	Ted Williams	RFK Memorial Stadium
5	7	16	New York Yankees	T - S - R - L	161	80	81	.497	28.5	562	587	-25	dnq	1,067,996	11	Lee MacPhail	Ralph Houk	Yankee Stadium I
6	12	22	Cleveland Indians	T - S - R - L	161	62	99	.385	46.5	573	717	-144	dnq	619,970	21	Gabe Paul	Alvin Dark	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
American League West
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	2	3	Minnesota Twins	T - S - R - L	162	97	65	.599	--	790	618	172	Lost ALCS (Orioles)	1,349,328	9	Calvin Griffith	Billy Martin	Metropolitan Stadium
2	4	10	Oakland Athletics	T - S - R - L	162	88	74	.543	9.0	740	678	62	dnq	778,232	17	Charlie Finley	Hank Bauer, John McNamara	Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
3	8	17	California Angels	T - S - R - L	162	71	91	.438	26.0	528	652	-124	dnq	758,388	19	Dick Walsh	Lefty Phillips, Bill Rigney	Anaheim Stadium
4	9	18	Kansas City Royals	T - S - R - L	162	69	93	.426	28.0	586	688	-102	dnq	902,414	15	Cedric Tallis	Joe Gordon	Municipal Stadium
5	10	19	Chicago White Sox	T - S - R - L	162	68	94	.420	29.0	625	723	-98	dnq	589,546	22	Ed Short	Don Gutteridge, Al Lopez	Comiskey Park
6	11	20	Seattle Pilots	T - S - R - L	162	64	98	.395	33.0	639	799	-160	dnq	677,944	20	Marvin Milkes	Joe Schultz	---
National League East
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	New York Mets	T - S - R - L	162	100	62	.617	--	632	541	91	Won World Series (Orioles)	2,175,373	1	Johnny Murphy	Gil Hodges	Shea Stadium
2	3	5	Chicago Cubs	T - S - R - L	162	92	70	.568	8.0	720	611	109	dnq	1,674,993	5	John Holland	Leo Durocher	Wrigley Field
3	6	9	Pittsburgh Pirates	T - S - R - L	162	88	74	.543	12.0	725	652	73	dnq	769,369	18	Joe Brown	Larry Shepard, Alex Grammas	Forbes Field
4	7	12	St. Louis Cardinals	T - S - R - L	162	87	75	.537	13.0	595	540	55	dnq	1,682,783	4	Bing Devine	Red Schoendienst	Busch Stadium II
5	10	21	Philadelphia Phillies	T - S - R - L	162	63	99	.389	37.0	645	745	-100	dnq	519,414	23	John Quinn	Bob Skinner, George Myatt	Connie Mack Stadium
6	12	23	Montreal Expos	T - S - R - L	162	52	110	.321	48.0	582	791	-209	dnq	1,212,608	10	Jim Fanning	Gene Mauch	Jarry Park
National League West
Rank	lgRank	mlbRank	Team Name	Links	G	W	L	WPct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Playoffs	Attendance	Att Rank	General Manager	Manager Name	Ballpark
1	2	4	Atlanta Braves	T - S - R - L	162	93	69	.574	--	691	631	60	Lost NLCS (Mets)	1,458,320	7	Paul Richards	Lum Harris	Atlanta Stadium
2	4	6	San Francisco Giants	T - S - R - L	162	90	72	.556	3.0	713	636	77	dnq	873,603	16	Chub Feeney, Horace Stoneham	Clyde King	Candlestick Park
3	5	8	Cincinnati Reds	T - S - R - L	162	89	73	.549	4.0	798	768	30	dnq	987,991	13	Bob Howsam	Dave Bristol	Crosley Field
4	8	14	Los Angeles Dodgers	T - S - R - L	162	85	77	.525	8.0	645	561	84	dnq	1,784,527	3	Al Campanis	Walter Alston	Dodger Stadium
5	9	15	Houston Astros	T - S - R - L	162	81	81	.500	12.0	676	668	8	dnq	1,442,995	8	Spec Richardson	Harry Walker	Astrodome
6	11	24	San Diego Padres	T - S - R - L	162	52	110	.321	41.0	468	746	-278	dnq	512,970	24	Buzzie Bavasi	Preston Gomez	San Diego Stadium
24 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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