1966 Kansas City Athletics season

1966 Kansas City Athletics
LeagueAmerican League
BallparkMunicipal Stadium
CityKansas City, Missouri
OwnersCharles O. Finley
General managersEd Lopat
ManagersAlvin Dark
TelevisionKCMO
RadioKCMO (AM)
(Monte Moore, Lynn Faris)
← 1965
1967 →

The 1966 Kansas City Athletics season was the 12th and penultimate season in Kansas City, and the 66th in overall franchise history. It involved the A's finishing seventh in the American League with a record of 74 wins and 86 losses, 23 games behind the World Champion Baltimore Orioles. Paid attendance for the season was 773,929.[1] The pitching staff had an earned run average of 3.56, which ranked sixth in the American League.[2]

  1. ^ Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, p.98, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0
  2. ^ Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman, pp.97–98, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8027-1745-0