Kansas City Athletics 1956

52–102record

.338win pct

619runs

831allowed

-212run diff

112home runs

44players

The three rarest things in 1956

Rarity	What	Who	Date	Rate	Game
65	Three Runs, No Hits	Kansas City Athletics	1956-08-29	1 in 999 games	box score ↗
62	Ten Walks	Tom Lasorda	1956-05-28	1 in 746 games	box score ↗
60	Walk-Off Wild Pitch	Kansas City Athletics	1956-05-23	1 in 662 games	box score ↗

Batting (44)

Player	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
Hector Lopez	151	639	561	91	153	27	3	18	70	63	74	4	5	.273	.347	.428	.775
Harry Simpson	141	597	543	76	159	22	11	21	105	47	82	2	4	.293	.347	.490	.837
Vic Power	127	559	530	77	164	21	5	14	63	24	17	1	2	.309	.340	.447	.787
Joe DeMaestri	133	468	434	41	101	16	1	6	39	25	72	3	3	.233	.277	.316	.593
Lou Skizas	83	317	297	39	94	11	3	11	39	15	16	3	1	.316	.346	.485	.831
Gus Zernial	109	312	271	36	61	12	0	16	44	34	66	2	0	.225	.317	.446	.764
Jim Finigan	91	290	250	29	54	7	2	2	21	30	28	3	1	.216	.298	.284	.582
Tim Thompson	92	288	268	21	73	13	2	1	27	17	23	2	4	.272	.319	.347	.666
Johnny Groth	95	280	244	22	63	13	3	5	37	30	31	1	2	.258	.335	.398	.732
Al Pilarcik	69	272	239	28	60	10	1	4	22	30	34	9	2	.251	.333	.351	.685
Enos Slaughter	91	255	223	37	62	14	3	2	23	29	20	1	1	.278	.362	.395	.757
Joe Ginsberg	71	220	195	15	48	8	1	1	12	23	17	1	1	.246	.323	.313	.636
Eddie Robinson	75	202	172	13	34	5	1	2	12	26	20	0	0	.198	.308	.273	.582
Hal Smith	37	148	142	15	39	9	2	2	24	3	12	1	0	.275	.284	.408	.692
Clete Boyer	67	143	129	15	28	3	1	1	4	11	24	1	1	.217	.284	.279	.563
Mike Baxes	73	128	106	9	24	3	1	1	5	18	15	0	1	.226	.339	.302	.641
Spook Jacobs	32	115	97	13	21	3	0	0	5	15	5	4	1	.216	.321	.247	.569
Art Ditmar	44	97	90	5	13	0	0	1	4	3	25	0	1	.144	.172	.178	.350
Rance Pless	48	96	85	4	23	3	1	0	9	10	13	0	1	.271	.354	.329	.684
Bill Renna	33	51	48	12	13	3	0	2	5	3	10	1	0	.271	.314	.458	.772
Wally Burnette	18	45	39	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	9	0	0	.051	.075	.051	.126
Tom Gorman	52	44	39	2	2	0	0	0	2	4	22	0	0	.051	.140	.051	.191
Lou Kretlow	25	41	33	1	2	0	0	0	0	4	19	0	0	.061	.162	.061	.223
Alex Kellner	21	37	31	2	6	0	0	0	2	3	10	0	0	.194	.265	.194	.458
Jim Pisoni	10	33	30	4	8	0	0	2	5	2	8	0	1	.267	.303	.467	.770
Jack Crimian	55	30	22	4	5	0	0	0	0	3	6	0	0	.227	.320	.227	.547
Troy Herriage	34	29	25	1	3	0	0	0	1	2	16	0	0	.120	.185	.120	.305
Bobby Shantz	51	26	22	2	2	1	0	0	1	2	4	0	0	.091	.167	.136	.303
Joe Astroth	8	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.077	.077	.077	.154
Jack McMahan	23	14	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Tom Lasorda	19	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.077	.077	.077	.154
Elmer Valo	9	11	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	.222	.273	.222	.495
Bill Harrington	23	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.125	.000	.125
Moe Burtschy	21	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250
Glenn Cox	3	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Jose Santiago	9	6	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800
Art Ceccarelli	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250
Carl Duser	2	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Dave Melton	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667
George Brunet	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Walt Craddock	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Arnie Portocarrero	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000
Bill Bradford	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–
Bob Spicer	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–

Pitching (21)

Player	G	W–L	GS	CG	SV	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP
Art Ditmar	44	12–22	34	14	1	254	141	125	108	126	30	253.2	4.43	1.43
Tom Gorman	52	9–10	13	1	4	168	83	74	68	56	23	171.0	3.89	1.38
Jack Crimian	54	4–8	7	0	3	126	86	78	49	59	19	127.2	5.50	1.37
Wally Burnette	18	6–8	14	4	0	115	48	39	39	54	13	121.0	2.90	1.27
Lou Kretlow	25	4–9	20	3	0	124	76	71	74	61	17	119.2	5.34	1.65
Troy Herriage	31	1–13	16	1	0	135	83	76	64	59	16	103.0	6.64	1.93
Bobby Shantz	45	2–7	2	1	9	95	51	49	37	67	12	100.2	4.38	1.31
Alex Kellner	20	7–4	17	5	0	103	49	44	33	44	15	91.2	4.32	1.48
Jack McMahan	23	0–5	9	0	0	69	40	34	31	13	7	61.2	4.96	1.62
Tom Lasorda	18	0–4	5	0	1	40	38	31	45	28	6	45.1	6.15	1.88
Moe Burtschy	21	3–1	0	0	0	41	22	19	30	18	6	43.2	3.92	1.63
Bill Harrington	23	2–2	1	0	1	40	27	27	26	14	3	39.2	6.13	1.66
Glenn Cox	3	0–2	3	1	0	15	11	11	22	6	2	23.1	4.24	1.59
Jose Santiago	9	1–2	5	0	0	36	26	20	17	9	8	21.2	8.31	2.45
Art Ceccarelli	3	0–1	2	0	0	13	13	8	4	2	3	10.0	7.20	1.70
Walt Craddock	2	0–2	2	0	0	9	7	7	10	8	1	9.1	6.75	2.04
George Brunet	6	0–0	1	0	0	10	8	7	11	5	1	9.0	7.00	2.33
Arnie Portocarrero	3	0–1	1	0	0	9	9	9	7	2	2	8.0	10.12	2.00
Carl Duser	2	1–1	2	0	0	14	6	6	2	5	0	6.0	9.00	2.67
Bob Spicer	2	0–0	0	0	0	6	5	5	1	0	1	2.1	19.29	3.00
Bill Bradford	1	0–0	0	0	0	2	2	2	1	0	2	2.0	9.00	1.50