1965 Kansas City Athletics season

1965 Kansas City Athletics
LeagueAmerican League
BallparkMunicipal Stadium
CityKansas City, Missouri
OwnersCharles O. Finley
General managersPat Friday, Hank Peters
ManagersMel McGaha, Haywood Sullivan
TelevisionKCMO
RadioKCMO (AM)
(Monte Moore, Red Rush)
← 1964
1966 →

The 1965 Kansas City Athletics season was the 11th for the franchise in Kansas City and the 65th in its overall history. It involved the A's finishing tenth in the American League with a record of 59 wins and 103 losses, 43 games behind the American League Champion Minnesota Twins. The paid attendance for the season was 528,344, the lowest in the major leagues (and the lowest ever by the A's in Kansas City).[1] The club won 59 games, their worst showing since the A's moved to Kansas City.

  1. ^ Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.92, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0