1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft

Selection of players by the Angles and Senators

1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft

General information
Sport| Baseball
Date(s)| December 14, 1960
Overview
61 total selections
League| Major League Baseball
Expansion teams|

* Los Angeles Angels
* Washington Senators

Expansion season| 1961
First selection| Eli Grba (Los Angeles Angels)

1961 ->

The 1960 MLB expansion draft was held by Major League Baseball on December 14, 1960, to fill the rosters of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators. The Angels and Senators (who later became the Texas Rangers) were new franchises that would enter the American League (AL) the following season as part of the 1961 Major League Baseball expansion. The Angels represented the AL's first team to be based on the West Coast of the United States, while the Senators would take the place of the league's original Washington Senators franchise that had moved to Minneapolis–Saint Paul as the Minnesota Twins after the 1960 season.

The draft, held in Boston, site of American League headquarters, had been scheduled for Tuesday, December 13, 1960, but had to be postponed one day due to a heavy snowstorm that struck the New England region.[1]

## Ground rules

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As with all MLB expansion lotteries prior to 1992, it was an "intraleague" affair and only players from the admitting league were eligible for selection. Each existing American League club had to make available for the draft seven players on their active rosters on August 31, 1960, and eight others from their 40-man rosters. The expansion clubs paid US$75,000 for each of 28 players they drafted with a maximum of seven players drafted from each existing club, not including minor league selections. They were required to take at least ten pitchers, two catchers, six infielders, and four outfielders. The clubs also had the option of drafting one non-roster player for $25,000 from each established franchise.

## Hasty expansion sowed draft confusion

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Angels

Senators

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1961 MLB Expansion Teams

Reacting belatedly to the National League's July 1960 announcement that it would expand to New York and Houston to begin play in April 1962 (twenty months later), the American League suddenly declared in October 1960 it would add two new teams as well—and that the AL's expansion teams would take the field in only six months, in time for the 1961 season.

Playing catch-up to the National League, under a much tighter deadline with no ownership groups, management or stadia yet in place, the Junior Circuit was forced to wait until November 17, 1960, to officially award an expansion franchise to Washington, D.C.,[2] to replace the recently-relocated Twins. Because it also intended to enter the Los Angeles metropolitan market, then controlled by Walter O'Malley, principal owner of the Dodgers, the American League was compelled to negotiate an indemnification agreement with O'Malley before the Los Angeles franchise could be granted. Finally, on December 6, 1960—one week before the expansion draft was expected to be held—the Angels franchise was officially created and awarded to Gene Autry.

Because each new team had not had the time to assemble a scouting department, they were forced to lean on scouting reports from National League franchises to select their full complement of new players. The Angels were aided by the San Francisco Giants, and the Senators by the Pittsburgh Pirates.[1] The league's chaotic, eleventh-hour approach to expansion resulted, on the day of the draft, in the new Senators' and Angels' noncompliance with rules that governed the maximum number of players each new club could select from each of the eight established teams. As a result, several post-draft trades were necessary to rectify the problem.[2][1]

The situation is described by authors Andy McCue and Eric Thompson in their 2011 Hardball Times article, "Mismanagement 101: The American League Expansion of 1961," also published by the Society for American Baseball Research.

## Results

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Key  ‡  | All-Star

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Eli Grba, selected by the Los Angeles Angels, was the first overall pick. Bobby Shantz, the second overall selection, was the top pick of the Washington Senators. Pick  | Player  | Position  | Selected from  | Selected by

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1  | Eli Grba | Pitcher | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels
2  | Bobby Shantz‡ | Pitcher | New York Yankees | Washington Senators
3  | Duke Maas | Pitcher | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels
4  | Dave Sisler | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Washington Senators
5  | Jerry Casale | Pitcher | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels
6  | Johnny Klippstein | Pitcher | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators
7  | Tex Clevenger | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Los Angeles Angels
8  | Pete Burnside | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Washington Senators
9  | Bob Sprout | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels
10  | Carl Mathias | Pitcher | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators
11  | Aubrey Gatewood | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels
12  | Ed Hobaugh | Pitcher | Chicago White Sox | Washington Senators
13  | Ken McBride‡ | Pitcher | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels
14  | Hal Woodeshick‡ | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators
15  | Ned Garver‡ | Pitcher | Kansas City Athletics | Los Angeles Angels
16  | Tom Sturdivant | Pitcher | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators
17  | Ron Moeller | Pitcher | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels
18  | Héctor Maestri | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators
19  | Bob Davis | Pitcher | Kansas City Athletics | Los Angeles Angels
20  | Rudy Hernández | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators
21  | Ed Sadowski | Catcher | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels
22  | Pete Daley | Catcher | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators
23  | Buck Rodgers | Catcher | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels
24  | Dutch Dotterer | Catcher | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators
25  | Eddie Yost‡ | Third baseman | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels
26  | Coot Veal | Shortstop | Detroit Tigers | Washington Senators
27  | Ken Aspromonte | Second baseman | Cleveland Indians | Los Angeles Angels
28  | Dale Long‡ | First baseman | New York Yankees | Washington Senators
29  | Ken Hamlin | Shortstop | Kansas City Athletics | Los Angeles Angels
30  | Jim Mahoney | Shortstop | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators
31  | Gene Leek | Third baseman | Cleveland Indians | Los Angeles Angels
32  | Bob Johnson | Shortstop | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators
33  | Jim Fregosi‡ | Shortstop | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels
34  | Billy Klaus | Second baseman | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators
35  | Bob Cerv‡ | First baseman/Outfielder | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels
36  | Johnny Schaive | Second baseman | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators
37  | Ken Hunt | Outfielder | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels
38  | Willie Tasby | Outfielder | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators
39  | Jim McAnany | Outfielder | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels
40  | Gene Woodling‡ | Outfielder | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators
41  | Earl Averill Jr. | Outfielder/Catcher | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels
42  | Marty Keough | Outfielder | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators
43  | Faye Throneberry | Outfielder | Minnesota Twins | Los Angeles Angels
44  | Chuck Hinton‡ | Outfielder | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators
45  | Ted Kluszewski‡ | First baseman | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels
46  | Gene Green | Catcher | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators
47  | Don Ross | Infielder | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels
48  | Bud Zipfel | First baseman | New York Yankees | Washington Senators
49  | Julio Bécquer | First baseman | Minnesota Twins | Los Angeles Angels
50  | Jim King | Outfielder | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators
51  | Dean Chance‡ | Pitcher | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels
52  | Joe Hicks | Outfielder | Chicago White Sox | Washington Senators
53  | Fred Newman | Pitcher | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels
54  | Chet Boak | Second baseman | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators
55  | Red Wilson | Catcher | Cleveland Indians | Los Angeles Angels
56  | Dick Donovan‡ | Pitcher | Chicago White Sox | Washington Senators
57  | Steve Bilko | First baseman | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels
58  | Leo Burke | Third baseman | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators
59  | Albie Pearson‡ | Outfielder | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels
60  | Haywood Sullivan | Catcher | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators
61  | Joe McClain | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators

## References

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1. ^ a b c Ringolsby, Tracy (November 8, 1992). "First Expansion Draft a Slap-Dash Affair". chicagotribune.com. Scripps Howard News Service. Retrieved February 20, 2024.
2. ^ a b McCue, Andy, and Thompson, Eric (2011), "Mismanagement 101: The American League's Expansion of 1961." The National Pastime 2011, Archived 2019-07-06 at the Wayback Machine Society for American Baseball Research

## External links

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* "1960 MLB Expansion Drafts". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved December 16, 2019.

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