1956 Major League Baseball season
This article is about the 1956 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1956 in baseball.
The 1956 Major League Baseball season was contested from April to October 1956, featuring eight teams in the National League and eight teams in the American League. The 1956 World Series was a rematch of the previous year's series between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The series is notable for Yankees pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5.
Regular season standings
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World Series
Main article: 1956 World Series
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Awards and honors
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Statistical leaders
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All-Star game
Main article: 1956 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||
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| National League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
| American League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Starting pitchers: NL: Bob Friend AL: Billy Pierce WP: Bob Friend (1–0) LP: Billy Pierce (0–1) Home runs: NL: Willie Mays (1), Stan Musial (1) AL: Ted Williams (1), Mickey Mantle (1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Feats
Triple Crown
- Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees – Mantle won the Major League Triple Crown by leading both leagues in batting average (.353), home runs (52), and runs batted in (130). Mantle became the first player to win a Triple Crown since Ted Williams in 1947.
Milestones
- On April 18, 1956, umpire Ed Rommel was the first umpire to wear glasses in a Major League game. The game was played between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators.[1]
Notable events
July–September
- September 21 – The New York Yankees set a Major League record by leaving 20 players on base against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.[2]
October–December
- December 6–8 – Major League owners meet in Chicago. Cleveland general manager and minority-owner Hank Greenberg proposed implementing limited Interleague play beginning in 1958. Under Greenberg's proposal, each team would continue to play 154-games in the season, 126 of which would be within the league, and 28 against the eight clubs. The interleague games would all be played during a period immediately following the All-Star Game. The proposal was not adopted.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.43, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
- ↑ "Left on Base – Team Records in a Game". baseball-almanac.com. Retrieved June 6, 2012.
- ↑ Drebinger, John (December 6, 1956). "Player limit, Interleague Games Top Issues on Majors' Agenda". New York Times. Retrieved October 2, 2009.
External links
- 1956 season at Baseball-Reference.com
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