# 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft

The 1960 MLB expansion draft was held by Major League Baseball on December 14, 1960, to fill the rosters of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators. The Angels and Senators (who later became the Texas Rangers) were new franchises that would enter the American League (AL) the following season as part of the 1961 Major League Baseball expansion. The Angels represented the AL's first team to be based on the West Coast of the United States, while the Senators would take the place of the league's original Washington Senators franchise that had moved to Minneapolis–Saint Paul as the Minnesota Twins after the 1960 season.
The draft, held in Boston, site of American League headquarters, had been scheduled for Tuesday, December 13, 1960, but had to be postponed one day due to a heavy snowstorm that struck the New England region.

## Ground rules

As with all MLB expansion lotteries prior to 1992, it was an "intraleague" affair and only players from the admitting league were eligible for selection. Each existing American League club had to make available for the draft seven players on their active rosters on August 31, 1960, and eight others from their 40-man rosters. The expansion clubs paid US$75,000 for each of 28 players they drafted with a maximum of seven players drafted from each existing club, not including minor league selections. They were required to take at least ten pitchers, two catchers, six infielders, and four outfielders. The clubs also had the option of drafting one non-roster player for $25,000 from each established franchise.

## Hasty expansion sowed draft confusion

Reacting belatedly to the National League's July 1960 announcement that it would expand to New York and Houston to begin play in April 1962 (twenty months later), the American League suddenly declared in October 1960 it would add two new teams as well—and that the AL's expansion teams would take the field in only six months, in time for the 1961 season.
Playing catch-up to the National League, under a much tighter deadline with no ownership groups, management or stadia yet in place, the Junior Circuit was forced to wait until November 17, 1960, to officially award an expansion franchise to Washington, D.C., to replace the recently-relocated Twins. Because it also intended to enter the Los Angeles metropolitan market, then controlled by Walter O'Malley, principal owner of the Dodgers, the American League was compelled to negotiate an indemnification agreement with O'Malley before the Los Angeles franchise could be granted. Finally, on December 6, 1960—one week before the expansion draft was expected to be held—the Angels franchise was officially created and awarded to Gene Autry.
Because each new team had not had the time to assemble a scouting department, they were forced to lean on scouting reports from National League franchises to select their full complement of new players. The Angels were aided by the San Francisco Giants, and the Senators by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The league's chaotic, eleventh-hour approach to expansion resulted, on the day of the draft, in the new Senators' and Angels' noncompliance with rules that governed the maximum number of players each new club could select from each of the eight established teams. As a result, several post-draft trades were necessary to rectify the problem.
The situation is described by authors Andy McCue and Eric Thompson in their 2011 Hardball Times article, "Mismanagement 101: The American League Expansion of 1961," also published by the Society for American Baseball Research.

## Results

Key :
| ‡ | All-Star |
| Pick | Player | Position | Selected from | Selected by |
| 1 | Eli Grba | Pitcher | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels |
| 2 | Bobby Shantz$^‡$ | Pitcher | New York Yankees | Washington Senators |
| 3 | Duke Maas | Pitcher | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels |
| 4 | Dave Sisler | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Washington Senators |
| 5 | Jerry Casale | Pitcher | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 6 | Johnny Klippstein | Pitcher | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators |
| 7 | Tex Clevenger | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Los Angeles Angels |
| 8 | Pete Burnside | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Washington Senators |
| 9 | Bob Sprout | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels |
| 10 | Carl Mathias | Pitcher | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators |
| 11 | Aubrey Gatewood | Pitcher | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels |
| 12 | Ed Hobaugh | Pitcher | Chicago White Sox | Washington Senators |
| 13 | Ken McBride$^‡$ | Pitcher | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 14 | Hal Woodeshick$^‡$ | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators |
| 15 | Ned Garver$^‡$ | Pitcher | Kansas City Athletics | Los Angeles Angels |
| 16 | Tom Sturdivant | Pitcher | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators |
| 17 | Ron Moeller | Pitcher | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels |
| 18 | Héctor Maestri | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators |
| 19 | Bob Davis | Pitcher | Kansas City Athletics | Los Angeles Angels |
| 20 | Rudy Hernández | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators |
| 21 | Ed Sadowski | Catcher | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 22 | Pete Daley | Catcher | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators |
| 23 | Buck Rodgers | Catcher | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels |
| 24 | Dutch Dotterer | Catcher | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators |
| 25 | Eddie Yost$^‡$ | Third baseman | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels |
| 26 | Coot Veal | Shortstop | Detroit Tigers | Washington Senators |
| 27 | Ken Aspromonte | Second baseman | Cleveland Indians | Los Angeles Angels |
| 28 | Dale Long$^‡$ | First baseman | New York Yankees | Washington Senators |
| 29 | Ken Hamlin | Shortstop | Kansas City Athletics | Los Angeles Angels |
| 30 | Jim Mahoney | Shortstop | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators |
| 31 | Gene Leek | Third baseman | Cleveland Indians | Los Angeles Angels |
| 32 | Bob Johnson | Shortstop | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators |
| 33 | Jim Fregosi$^‡$ | Shortstop | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 34 | Billy Klaus | Second baseman | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators |
| 35 | Bob Cerv$^‡$ | First baseman/Outfielder | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels |
| 36 | Johnny Schaive | Second baseman | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators |
| 37 | Ken Hunt | Outfielder | New York Yankees | Los Angeles Angels |
| 38 | Willie Tasby | Outfielder | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators |
| 39 | Jim McAnany | Outfielder | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 40 | Gene Woodling$^‡$ | Outfielder | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators |
| 41 | Earl Averill Jr. | Outfielder/Catcher | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 42 | Marty Keough | Outfielder | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators |
| 43 | Faye Throneberry | Outfielder | Minnesota Twins | Los Angeles Angels |
| 44 | Chuck Hinton$^‡$ | Outfielder | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators |
| 45 | Ted Kluszewski$^‡$ | First baseman | Chicago White Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 46 | Gene Green | Catcher | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators |
| 47 | Don Ross | Infielder | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels |
| 48 | Bud Zipfel | First baseman | New York Yankees | Washington Senators |
| 49 | Julio Bécquer | First baseman | Minnesota Twins | Los Angeles Angels |
| 50 | Jim King | Outfielder | Cleveland Indians | Washington Senators |
| 51 | Dean Chance$^‡$ | Pitcher | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels |
| 52 | Joe Hicks | Outfielder | Chicago White Sox | Washington Senators |
| 53 | Fred Newman | Pitcher | Boston Red Sox | Los Angeles Angels |
| 54 | Chet Boak | Second baseman | Kansas City Athletics | Washington Senators |
| 55 | Red Wilson | Catcher | Cleveland Indians | Los Angeles Angels |
| 56 | Dick Donovan$^‡$ | Pitcher | Chicago White Sox | Washington Senators |
| 57 | Steve Bilko | First baseman | Detroit Tigers | Los Angeles Angels |
| 58 | Leo Burke | Third baseman | Baltimore Orioles | Washington Senators |
| 59 | Albie Pearson$^‡$ | Outfielder | Baltimore Orioles | Los Angeles Angels |
| 60 | Haywood Sullivan | Catcher | Boston Red Sox | Washington Senators |
| 61 | Joe McClain | Pitcher | Minnesota Twins | Washington Senators |