Baseball may be over, but check out our Football, Basketball, and Hockey Sites.
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Cleveland Indians > 1961 Trades and Transactions
1961 Cleveland Indians (Franchise Encyclopedia: 1960/1962)
78-83, Finished 5th in American League
View League Standings and Leaders
Scored 737 runs, Allowed 752 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 79-82
Managed by Jimmie Dykes and Mel Harder

Ballpark: Cleveland Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 725,547 (7th of 10)
Park Factors
  (multi-year):
Batting - 97, Pitching - 98
  (one-year): Batting - 96, Pitching - 96
  Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.

BR Bullpen: Minor League Affiliates
BaseballAmerica.com: Team Executives
Baseball Hall of Fame: Team Uniforms
News & ViewsThinkFactoryBallHypeArmchairGM
BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this team (what's this?)

Play free baseball sim games

Our primary support comes from users like you. Sponsor this page for $10.

  

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1961 Stats / Schedule / Transactions (1960/1962) / Lineups / Batting Orders / SplitsBat / Pitch / GamelogsBat / Pitch

Transactions listed are from November 1 of previous year to April 1 of the following year.

November 28, 1960

Drafted Valmy Thomas from the Baltimore Orioles in the 1960 rule 5 draft.

December 3, 1960

Traded Harvey Kuenn to the San Francisco Giants. Received Johnny Antonelli and Willie Kirkland.

December 14, 1960

Ken Aspromonte selected by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1960 expansion draft.

Marty Keough selected by the Washington Senators in the 1960 expansion draft.

Jim King selected by the Washington Senators in the 1960 expansion draft.

Johnny Klippstein selected by the Washington Senators in the 1960 expansion draft.

Gene Leek selected by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1960 expansion draft.

Carl Mathias selected by the Washington Senators in the 1960 expansion draft.

December 27, 1960

Signed Paul Casanova as a free agent.

1961

Signed Tommie Agee as an amateur free agent.

Signed Steve Bailey as an amateur free agent.

Signed Steve Hargan as an amateur free agent.

Signed Jackie Hernandez as an amateur free agent.

Signed Floyd Weaver as an amateur free agent.

Released Mike White.

January 19, 1961

Released Don Newcombe.

February 1, 1961

Ted Bowsfield selected by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1961 expansion draft (after draft's completion).

April 23, 1961 (Standings)

Released Paul Casanova.

May 3, 1961 (Standings)

Purchased Chuck Essegian from the Kansas City Athletics.

May 10, 1961 (Standings)

Traded a player to be named later, Joe Morgan, and cash to the St. Louis Cardinals. Received Bob Nieman. The Cleveland Indians sent Mike Lee (June 1, 1961) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.

June 5, 1961 (Standings)

Sold Russ Heman to the Los Angeles Angels.

June 12, 1961 (Standings)

Signed Tommy John as an amateur free agent.

July 3, 1961 (Standings)

Selected Ken Aspromonte off waivers from the Los Angeles Angels.

July 4, 1961 (Standings)

Sold Johnny Antonelli to the Milwaukee Braves.

July 7, 1961 (Standings)

Purchased Joe Schaffernoth from the Chicago Cubs.

July 20, 1961 (Standings)

Purchased Ted Abernathy from the Milwaukee Braves. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.)

July 28, 1961 (Standings)

Sold Bob Hale to the New York Yankees.

September 6, 1961 (Standings)

Traded Ken Retzer to the Washington Senators. Received a player to be named later. The Washington Senators sent Chet Boak (October, 1961) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.

September 8, 1961 (Standings)

Sold Chuck Tanner to the Los Angeles Angels.

October, 1961 (Standings)

Purchased Vic Davalillo from the Cincinnati Reds.

October 5, 1961 (Standings)

Traded Jim Piersall to the Washington Senators. Received Dick Donovan, Gene Green, and Jim Mahoney.

October 14, 1961 (Standings)

Sold Joe Schaffernoth to the Washington Senators.

November 16, 1961

Traded Johnny Temple to the Baltimore Orioles. Received Ray Barker, Harry Chiti, and Art Kay (minors).

November 27, 1961

Drafted Buddy Booker from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1961 first-year draft.

Drafted Bob Chance from the San Francisco Giants in the 1961 first-year draft.

Traded Bobby Locke to the Chicago Cubs. Received Jerry Kindall.

Drafted Don Rudolph from the Cincinnati Reds in the 1961 rule 5 draft.

November 30, 1961

Traded Ely Churchich (minors) and Lou Holdener (minors) to the Chicago Cubs. Received Mel Roach.

1962

Jerry Fosnow sent to the Minnesota Twins in an unknown transaction.

Ruben Gomez received from the Philadelphia Phillies in an unknown transaction.

Signed Hal Kurtz as an amateur free agent.

Purchased Luis Tiant from the Mexico City Tigers (Mexican).

March, 1962

Purchased Duke Carmel from the St. Louis Cardinals.

March 20, 1962

Traded Mel Roach to the Philadelphia Phillies. Received Ken Lehman and Tony Curry.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.

1960/1962

Compare     Other Links@google.com   Report an error

Pages Updated through October 30,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Teams > Cleveland Indians > 1961 Trades and Transactions
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through October 30, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.