Los Angeles Angels - The Psychedelic Years (1961-1969)
 
   
 
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          1961 8 70 91   1964 5 82 80   1967 5 84 77             1960  
          1962 3 86 76   1965 7 75 87   1968 8 67 95             Click  
          1963 9 70 91   1966 6 80 82   1969 3 71 91             on Logo  
                                                     
                                                       
   
  Titles: Top Angels Players of the Sixties  
  None  
    Pitchers:  
  BallPark: Dean Chance (20.51) -     66  
  Wrigley Field (1961) George Brunet (12.27) -     34  
  Chavez Ravine (1962-1965) Ken McBride (7.39) -     27  
  Anaheim Stadium (1966-1969) Bob Lee (9.66) -     25  
    Fred Newman (5.68) -     21  
  Team Name: Jim McGlothlin (4.36) -     21  
  Angels Minnie Rojas (1.67) -     17  
    Marcelino Lopez (3.37) -     15  
  Owner:  Bo Belinsky (2.87) -     14  
  Gene Autry Andy Messersmith (7.24) -     14  
    Eli Grba (1.58) -     11  
  General Managers: Don Lee (2.64) -     10  
  Fred Haney (1961-1968) Ken Tatum (4.32) -   8  
  Dick Walsh (1969) Art Fowler (4.89) -   7  
    Tom Morgan (3.55) -   6  
  Managers:    
  Bill Rigney (1961-1969) Catchers:  
  Lefty Phillips (1969) Bob Rodgers (3.4) -     42  
    Earl Averill (2.76) -     11  
  No Hitters:    
  Bo Belinsky (1962) First Basemen:  
    Don Mincher (5.03) -     18  
  Hall of Famers: Joe Adcock (4.55) -     15  
  Hoyt Wilhelm Bob Chance (-0.11) -   0  
       
  Rookie of the Year: Second Basemen:  
  None Bobby Knoop (13.25) -     20  
    Billy Moran (4.99) -     10  
  MVP:    
  None ShortStop:  
    Jim Fregosi (37.46) -     76  
  Cy Young: Ken Hamlin (-0.1) -   0  
  Dean Chance (1964)    
    Third Base:  
  Notable Events: Felix Torres (2.02) -     9  
    Paul Schaal (5.32) -   6  
  1961 - Because expansion in the AL is pushed up a year earlier than expected     
   in order to keep a team in Washington, the Angels are forced to play in Outfield:  
   relatively tiny Wrigley Field in LA for a year. Albie Pearson (13.14) -     40  
    Rich Reichardt (11.01) -     30  
  1961 - The Angels accumulate a bunch of excellent youngsters out of the Leon Wagner (6.52) -     28  
    first expansion draft. The owners learned after this first expansion draft Jose Cardenal (4.61) -     27  
    that they didn't want to supply anything more than warm bodies to future LeRoy Thomas (4.44) -     22  
   new teams. However, because they didn't know any better the first time, Willie Smith (2.18) -     13  
   there were some high quality youngsters available that the Angels drafted: Jay Johnstone (4.4) -     12  
   □ C - Bob Rodgers, 22, drafted from Detroit Vic Davalillo (3.22) -     10  
  □  SS - Jim Fregosi, 19, drafted from Boston Ken Hunt (0.12) -   8  
  □  OF - Albie Pearson, 26, drafted from Baltimore    
  □  Righty - Fred Newman, 20, drafted from Boston Notable Events:  
  □  Lefty - Bo Belinsky, 24, drafted from Boston    
  □  Righty - Ken McBride, 25, drafted from Chicago 1964 - several good players are brought into the club after the step   
  □  Righty- Dean Chance, 20, drafted from Baltimore by Washington,   backward in '63, helping the Angels bounce back to a winning record:  
  then traded to the Angels for Joe Hicks □  Lefty - George Brunet, 29, obtained from Houston in a trade  
    □  Righty - Bob Lee, 26, is obtained in a trade from Pittsburgh  
  1961 - Slugging outfielder Leon Wagner, 27, is obtained from the Cards  □  3B - Paul Schaal, 21, was signed as an amateur free agent in '62  
   for Lou Johnson □  Outfielder - Rick Reichardt, 21, is signed as an amateur free agent  
    □  Outfielder/Pitcher - Willie Smith, 25, is acquired from Detroit in a trade  
  1961 - Slugging outfielder LeRoy Thomas, 25, is obtained from the Yankees     
   in a trade for Bob Cerv  1965 - The Angels become the California Angels, ceding Los Angeles   
     to the Dodgers.  
  1962 - The Angels move into Chavez Ravine with the Dodgers    
    1966 - The Halos get their own new stadium, appropriately named    
  1962 - The Halos, remarkably, contend and finish third at 86-76.  Anaheim Stadium. L.A. wasn't big enough for both teams and the  
   The best, by far, that a second year expansion team will have   Dodgers won out.  
  done prior to the free agency era  They're really the Orange County Angels moving forward.  
       
  1962 - Rookie Bo Belinsky tosses a no-hitter 1968 - Anaheim drops 17 games in the standings to eighth place.   
    Theoretically this shouldn't have happened. The team was in it's  
   1963 - The overachieving Angels of '62 fall back to earth  in '63 at  70-91. prime, hardly anyone over thirty. It was mostly the offense that   
   Their actual talent level is somewhere in the middle of '62 and '63 as is  collapsed. Their two best hitters, Fregosi, 25, and Mincher, 29,   
   seen the rest of the decade plummeted and catcher Rodgers, 29, got old young as a lot of    
    catchers do.   
  1964 - Expansion draftee Righthander Dean Chance goes 20-9, 1.65 ERA      
  as a twenty  three year old and wins the Cy Young 1969 - Owner Gene Autry is fed up with losing and gets rid of manager   
     Bill Rigney and GM Fred Haney, hiring GM Dick Walsh and   
    manager Lefty Phillips. GM Fred Haney had built a competitive club,  
    but was having a difficult time trying to maintain the early success.  
    Rigney was Haney's guy, Walsh brought in his own guy to manage.