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The following are the baseball events of the year 1957 throughout the world.  

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

• Caribbean World Series: Marianao (Cuba)
• College World Series: California
• Japan Series: Nishitetsu Lions over Yomiuri Giants (4-0-1)
• Little League World Series: Monterrey Industrial, Monterrey, Mexico

MLB Statistical Leaders

American League National League Type Name Stat Name Stat AVG Ted Williams BOS .388 Stan Musial STL .351 HR Roy Sievers WSH 42 Hank Aaron MLW 44 RBI Roy Sievers WSH 114 Hank Aaron MLW 132 Wins Jim Bunning DET & Billy Pierce CHW 20 Warren Spahn MLW 1 ERA Bobby Shantz NYY 2.45 Johnny Podres BSN 2.66 Ks Early Wynn CLE 2.42 Jack Sanford PHI 188

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

American League Club Wins Losses Win %   GB New York Yankees 98 56 .636 -- Chicago White Sox 90 64 .584 8 Boston Red Sox 82 72 .532 16 Detroit Tigers 78 76 .506 20 Baltimore Orioles 76 76 .500 21 Cleveland Indians 76 77 .497 21.5 Kansas City Athletics 59 94 .386 38.5 Washington Senators 55 99 .357 43

National League final standings

National League Club Wins Losses Win %   GB Milwaukee Braves 95 59 .617 -- St. Louis Cardinals 87 67 .565 8 Brooklyn Dodgers 84 70 .545 11 Cincinnati Reds 80 74 .519 15 Philadelphia Phillies 77 77 .500 18 New York Giants 69 85 .448 26 Chicago Cubs 62 92 .403 33 Pittsburgh Pirates 62 92 .403 33

Events

April-June

• April 18 - New York Parks commissioner Robert Moses proposes a new 78-acre tract in Flushing Meadows as a site for a new National League 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 24 - The New York Board Of Estimates fails to act on the Moses plan as outlined by Mayor Wagner.

• 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 Brooklyn Dodgers and The Giants to the West Coast, provided both clubs make their request before October 1 and move at the same time.

• May 29 - New York 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 a Queens group's offer to buy the Dodgers.

July-September

• July 18 - Horace Stoneham says the Giants will quit New York 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.

• August 19 - As Horace Stoneham cites poor attendance as the reason for The Giants' move, The Giants 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.

• 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. Pirate Pitcher Bob Friend defeats Johnny Antonelli.

October-December

• October 7 - the Los Angeles City Council approves the Chavez Ravine site for Dodger Stadium by a vote of 10 to 4. It was not until 1962 that a New York team will represent the National League.

• October 8 - Walter O'Malley announces that the Dodgers will be moving to Los Angeles for the 1958 season.

Movies

• Fear Strikes Out

Births

• April 21 - Jesse Orosco
• May 12 - Lou Whitaker
• May 28 - Kirk Gibson
• June 4 - Tony Peña
• June 15 - Brett Butler
• July 22 - Dave Stieb
• September 14 - Tim Wallach
• December 4 - Lee Smith
• December 21 - Tom Henke

Deaths

• April 15 - Jack Coombs, 74, pitcher with 158 career victories including a 31-9 campaign for the 1910 Athletics; pitched a complete 24-inning game on September 1, 1906, winning 4-1; later the baseball coach at Duke University from 1929 to 1952
• July 3 - Dolf Luque, 66, Cuban pitcher who won 194 games in the National League