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The 1957 New York Yankees season was the 55th season for the team. ... Braves – 2, Yankees – 3: October 9: Yankee Stadium: 61,408 7: Braves – 5, Yankees – 0:
The other 3, the Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants were all based in New York at the time, but at the end of the 1957 season, both the Giants and Dodgers moved to west to California for the 1958 season. In the decade of the 1950s, the Yankees won six world championships (1950-53, 56, & 58), the Dodgers won two (1955 in Brooklyn & 59 in Los Angeles ...
The 1957 major league baseball season began on April 15, 1957. The regular season ended on September 29, with the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League , respectively.
i The Yankees finished the season tied for first with the Boston Red Sox. New York defeated the Red Sox 5–4 in a one-game playoff to clinch the division title. The game is best remembered for Bucky Dent's three-run home run in the seventh inning, which gave the Yankees a 3–2 lead. [80] j The 1981 Major League Baseball strike caused the ...
August 14 – Tim Hendryx, 66, outfielder who played for the Cleveland Naps, New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox over eight seasons spanning 1911–1921, whose most productive season came with the Red Sox in 1920 as a replacement for departed Babe Ruth at right field, when he posted a .328/.400/.413 batting line with 54 runs ...
Coleman retired following the 1957 season, and Richardson began 1958 as the Yankees' starting second baseman. [19] After batting .203 through the Yankees' first 18 games, he missed 20 in a row as McDougald began getting the starts at second.
He missed most of two seasons, 1954 and 1955, after being drafted into the Army, and his abilities never fully returned; the Yankees traded him after a brawl at the Copacabana club in New York during the 1957 season. Martin bitterly resented being traded, and did not speak to Stengel for years, a time during which Martin completed his playing ...
After the 1954 season was complete, the Athletics were sold and moved to Kansas City for the 1955 season. On February 19, 1957, the Athletics traded Shantz, Art Ditmar , Wayne Belardi , Jack McMahan , and players to be named later (PTBNL) to the New York Yankees for Rip Coleman , Milt Graff , Billy Hunter , Mickey McDermott , Irv Noren , Tom ...