Municipal Stadium / Muehlebach Stadium / Blues Stadium - Kansas City Missouri

Pitching wise, Ralph Terry led the team in ERA with 3.38 but had a 4-11 record to show for it. Ned Garver was the #1 pitcher on the team going 6-13 with a 3.84 ERA. The 57 Kansas City A's finished with a 59-94 record... 8 wins better than the season before. (Which is as good as it was going to get). The A's were such an awful team to watch that even the residents of this midwest city couldn't get themselves to go to the ballpark and watch this disaster unfold season after season. Attendance dropped under the 1 million mark for the first time, finishing with just above 900,000. It would never again break above the 1 million mark again in this stadium. The Athletics would have their best season in 1958 ... putting up a 73-81 record... the closest they would come to .500 in their time here in Kansas City. Much of it had to do with LF Bob Cerv (who had served with the K.C. Blues years earlier) emerging as a star... hitting 29 doubles, 38 homers, 104 RBI's and a .305 average. It was easily the best stats that anyone had seen in quite some time. Also joining the Athletics was a new 23 year old rookie named Roger Maris. Maris batted .247 and showed some pop in his bat slugging 19 homers for 2nd best on the team. Little did anyone know that this Roger Maris would go on to break Babe Ruth's record by hitting 61 home runs after he was traded to the Yankees.