1957 in baseball

Champions

Major League Baseball

*World Series: Milwaukee Braves over New York Yankees (4–3); Lew Burdette, MVP
*All-Star Game, July 9 at Busch Stadium: American League, 6–5

Other champions

*College World Series: California
*Japan Series: Nishitetsu Lions over Yomiuri Giants (4-0-1)
*Little League World Series: Monterrey Industrial, Monterrey, Mexico
Winter Leagues
*1957 Caribbean Series: Tigres de Marianao
*Cuban League: Tigres de Marianao
* Dominican Republic League: Leones del Escogido
*Mexican Pacific League: Naranjeros de Hermosillo
* Panamanian League: Cerveza Balboa
* Puerto Rican League: Indios de Mayagüez
*Venezuelan League: Leones del Caracas

Awards and honors

*Baseball Hall of Fame
**Sam Crawford
**Joe McCarthy
*MLB Most Valuable Player Award
** American League: Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees, OF
** National League: Hank Aaron, Milwaukee Braves, OF
*MLB Rookie of the Year Award
** American League: Tony Kubek, New York Yankees, SS
** National League: Jack Sanford, Philadelphia Phillies, P
*Cy Young Award
**Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves (NL)
*The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
**Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox
*The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award
**American League: Billy Pierce, Chicago White Sox
**National League: Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves
*The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award
**Fred Hutchinson, St. Louis Cardinals
*Gold Glove Award
** Gil Hodges (1B) (AL)
**Nellie Fox (2B) (AL)
**Frank Malzone (3B) (AL)
**Roy McMillan (SS) (AL)
**Willie Mays (OF) (AL)
**Al Kaline (OF) (AL)
**Minnie Miñoso (OF) (AL)
**Sherm Lollar (C) (AL)
**Bobby Shantz (P) (AL)

MLB statistical leaders

Major league baseball final standings

American League final standings

National League final standings

Events

January

February

March

April

*April 18 – New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Aaron proposes a new tract in Flushing Meadows as a site for a new National League baseball stadium. The plan, submitted to mayor Robert Wagner, includes a 50,000-seat stadium with a plastic dome to be built by the Parks Department.
*April 21 – In the first inning of a 3-1 loss to the Milwaukee Braves at Milwaukee County Stadium, the Cincinnati Redlegs are involved in a bizarre play. With Don Hoak on second and Gus Bell on first, Wally Post hits a ground ball to Milwaukee shortstop Johnny Logan. Hoak breaks up a potential double play by fielding the ball himself and flipping it to Logan. Hoak is called out for interference (contact with a batted ball before a fielder touched it), but Post is given a single on the play. The day before, Johnny Temple let Bell's ground ball hit him with the same result, Temple being called out for interference and Bell being awarded a single. The two incidents prompt league presidents Warren Giles and Will Harridge to jointly announce a rule change that declared both the runner and batter out if the runner intentionally interfered with a batted ball, with no runners allowed to advance.
*April 22 – John Irvin Kennedy becomes the first black player in Philadelphia Phillies history, entering the game in the top of the 8th inning as a pinch runner for Solly Hemus.
*April 24
**The New York City Board Of Estimates fails to act on the Moses plan as outlined by Mayor Wagner.
**In the 4th inning of a Chicago Cubs 9–5 loss to the Cincinnati Redlegs at Crosley Field, Cubs pitcher Moe Drabowsky claims to be hit on the foot by a Joe Nuxhall pitch. Afterwards, teammate Dick Drott borrows a wheelchair from a crippled fan and wheels Drabowsky to first base, and immediately is ejected by home plate umpire Stan Landes. Drabowsky is eventually called out on strikes.

May

*May 7 – Two batters into the game at Cleveland Stadium, Cleveland Indian pitcher Herb Score is hit in the face by a line drive by New York Yankee Gil McDougald, the ball breaking numerous bones in Score's face and leaving him quite bloodied. McDougald vows to quit if Score is blinded as a result. Score regains his 20/20 vision, but will miss the remainder of the 1957 season. With Bob Lemon pitching the rest of the way, the Indians defeat the Yankees 2-1.
*May 10 – Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco confers with Horace Stoneham on a possible shift of the New York Giants franchise to the West Coast.
*May 28 – The National League approves the proposed moves of the Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to the West Coast, provided both clubs make their request before October 1 and move at the same time.
*May 29 – New York City mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move, but that the city will not be "blackjacked" into anything.
*May 30 – Walter O'Malley rejects an offer from a Queens group to buy the Dodgers.

June

*June 9 – Ernie Banks hit his 100th career home run, helping the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3.

July

*July 9 – At Sportsman's Park, home of the St. Louis Cardinals, the American League defeats the National League, 6-5, in the All-Star Game. Seven Cincinnati Redlegs - Ed Bailey, Gus Bell, Don Hoak, Roy McMillan, Wally Post, Frank Robinson and Johnny Temple - had been "voted" in as starters for the National League, with first baseman George Crowe the only Redleg not voted in, being beaten out in the final vote tally by hometown favorite Stan Musial. After an investigation found this was the result of a ballot stuffing campaign by Redlegs fans, Commissioner Ford Frick removed Bell and Post from the starting lineup and replaced them with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays; Bell remained on the team as a reserve, while Post was injured and would have been unable to play in any event.
*July 18 – New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham says the team will quit New York City after the season. He says he has not heard anything more from San Francisco and that his move is not contingent on that of the Dodgers. He sees a new stadium or joint occupancy with the New York Yankees as the only reason for the Giants to stay in New York.
*july 20 - In a key pennant chase game, the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 7-5. Duke Snider was the star of the game as he hit his 24th homer of the season, his 8th in 10 games since the All-Star Game and most important he hit his 300th home run in this game.
*July 26 – Mickey Mantle hits 200th career home run.

August

*August 1 – Gil Hodges belted his 13th career grand slam to establish a new record in the National League. This would also be the last grand slam in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers club.
*August 19 – As Stoneham cites poor attendance as the reason for the Giants' move, the team's board of directors votes 8-1 to move to California in 1958, as San Francisco promises a new stadium in the Bayview area. The only dissenting vote is by M. Donald Grant, who would go on to be one of the founders of the New York Mets.
*August 20 – Bob Keegan of the Chicago White Sox no-hits the Washington Senators 6-0 in the second game of a doubleheader at Comiskey Park. The no-hitter is the first by a White Sox pitcher since Bill Dietrich in .

September

*September 2 – In the first game of a doubleheader at Wrigley Field, Frank Torre of the Milwaukee Braves ties a National League record by scoring six runs in the Braves' 23-10 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
*September 8 - The Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants battle one last time before each one heads off to California. The Giants defeated the Dodgers 3-2 in the Polo Grounds.
*September 14 – Ernie Banks hits 3 home runs helping Chicago Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3.
*September 23 – The Milwaukee Braves clinch the National League pennant at Milwaukee County Stadium after Braves slugger (and eventual 1957 National League MVP) Hank Aaron clubs a two-run walk-off home run off of Billy Muffett in the bottom of the 11th inning to give Milwaukee a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
*September 24 – In the last game at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field in a night game, 6,702 fans watch Dodgers lefty Danny McDevitt prevail over the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. Brooklyn's Gil Hodges has the last RBI.
*September 29 – With 1895 Giants manager Jack Doyle among the 11,606 looking on, the Giants lose their last game at the Polo Grounds 9-1 to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pirates pitcher Bob Friend defeats Johnny Antonelli in the historic contest, and fans storm the field for souvenirs as soon as Dusty Rhodes grounds to Pittsburgh shortstop Dick Groat for the final out.

October

*October 7 – The Los Angeles City Council approves the Chavez Ravine site for Dodger Stadium by a vote of 10 to 4. It would not be until 1962 that a New York team will again represent the National League.
*October 8 – Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley announces that the Dodgers will be moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.
*October 10 – The Milwaukee Braves defeat the New York Yankees, 5-0, in Game 7 the World Series to win the franchise's second World Series, and only title in the city of Milwaukee, four games to three. This was the Braves' first pennant since moving to Milwaukee and the organization's first World Series win since the Miracle Braves of . Milwaukee became the first team to win a title after relocating. Braves pitcher Lew Burdette was named World Series Most Valuable Player with three complete games, including two shutouts. He was the first pitcher to pitch two shutouts in the World Series since Christy Mathewson in the 1905 World Series.

November

*November 12 – Frank Lane

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