The 1954 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing 8th in the American League with a record of 51 wins and 103 losses, 60 games behind AL Champion Cleveland in their 54th and final season in Philadelphia, before moving to Kansas City, Missouri for the following season.
The VII edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 1955.
Though intentional walks are recorded as such in the records of the official scorer, they are combined with standard, non-intentional walks when calculating a player's on-base percentage, and have only received a separate column in a player's statistics since 1955.
In his final season, Hooper appeared briefly with the 1955 Cincinnati Redlegs and lost his only two decisions.
As president, majority owner and de facto general manager of the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League from 1955–1984, he was famous for his devotion to the game and for his sayings.
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The senior Griffith owned the Senators until his death in 1955; upon his death, the team passed into the hands of Calvin, who had worked his way up through a variety of positions with the team, starting as a batboy, minor league player and manager (serving a brief stint under Joe Engel and the Chattanooga Lookouts at Engel Stadium), and front-office executive.
Richard Stanley Brodowski (born July 26, 1932) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1952 through 1955 for the Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, and Cleveland Indians.
Richard David Kryhoski (March 24, 1925 – April 10, 2007) was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams between 1949 and 1955.
Harry Walter Perkowski (born September 6, 1922) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1947 and 1955 for the Cincinnati Reds & Redlegs (1947, 1949–54) and Chicago Cubs (1955).
They mostly barnstormed in the early-to-mid-1930s, but used Muehlebach (later known as Ruppert Stadium or Blues Stadium at different times) from 1937 until 1954, when they went to full-time barnstorming in response to the arrival of the Kansas City Athletics in 1955 because they had to pay more money to use the stadium.
Mr. Red made his first appearance on a Reds uniform as a sleeve patch in 1955.
His most productive season came in 1955, when he hit .239 with 27 home runs for the Red Sox and finished third in American League Rookie of the Year voting, behind Herb Score and Billy Klaus.
Morgan's Major League playing career consisted of 31 games and 71 at bats for the 1954–1955 Chicago Cubs.
In 1955, his last season, he became the first career 300-game winner in Japanese professional baseball.
In 1955, it changed its name to the Northwest League, and still operates today as a Short Season A loop under that name.
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