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The 1960 San Francisco Giants season involved the team moving their home games from Seals Stadium to the new Candlestick Park. In their third season in the Golden Gate City, the Giants finished in fifth place in the National League, 16 games behind the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates.

Offseason

• November 30, 1959: Joey Amalfitano was drafted by the Giants from the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1959 rule 5 draft.^[1]
• November 30, 1959: Jackie Brandt, Gordon Jones, and Roger McCardell were traded by the Giants to the Baltimore Orioles for Billy Loes and Billy O'Dell.^[2]
• November 30, 1959: Georges Maranda was drafted by the Giants from the Milwaukee Braves in the 1959 rule 5 draft.^[3]

Regular season

Season standings

Opening Day starters

• Don Blasingame
• Eddie Bressoud
• Orlando Cepeda
• Jim Davenport
• Sam Jones
• Willie Kirkland
• Willie Mays
• Willie McCovey
• Bob Schmidt^[4]

Notable transactions

• April, 1960: Don Taussig was purchased from the Giants by the Portland Beavers.^[5]
• May 12, 1960: Dave Philley was purchased by the Giants from the Philadelphia Phillies.^[6]
• September 1, 1960: Dave Philley was purchased from the Giants by the Baltimore Orioles.^[6]

Candlestick Park

The Giants selected the name of Candlestick Park after a name-the-park contest on March 3, 1959. Prior to that, its construction site had been shown on maps as the generic Bay View Stadium. It was the first modern baseball stadium, as it was the first to be built entirely of reinforced concrete.^[7] Richard Nixon threw out the first baseball on the opening day of Candlestick Park on April 12, 1960 and called it the finest ballpark in the country.^[8]

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

LEAGUE CO-CHAMPIONS: Springfield^[9]

Notes

References

• 1960 San Francisco Giants team page at Baseball Reference
• 1960 San Francisco Giants team page at Baseball Almanac