1957 Cincinnati Redlegs season

March 2026 November 2013 Cincinnati Redlegs 1957 National League Crosley Field Cincinnati Powel Crosley Jr. Gabe Paul Birdie Tebbetts WLW(George Bryson) WKRC(Waite Hoyt, Jack Moran) The 1957 Cincinnati Redlegs season consisted of the Redlegs finishing in fourth place in the National League, with a record of 80–74, 15 games behind the NL and World Series Champion Milwaukee Braves. The Redlegs were managed by Birdie Tebbetts and played their home games at Crosley Field, where they attracted 1,070,850 fans, fourth in the eight-team league.Baseball Reference: 1957 MLB Attendance & Team Age Offseason November 13, 1956: Ray Jablonski and Elmer Singleton were traded by the Redlegs to the Chicago Cubs for Don Hoak, Warren Hacker, and Pete Whisenant.Ray Jablonski at Baseball-Reference December 3, 1956: Maury Wills was drafted by the Redlegs from the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1956 minor league draft.Maury Wills at Baseball-Reference Regular season Just as in the 1956 season, the Reds were once again in first place at mid-season when, fan voting for the 1957 All-Star Game starting players determined that no fewer than seven Redleg players (Ed Bailey, Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan, Don Hoak, Frank Robinson, Gus Bell and Wally Post) had been elected to start in the All-Star Game, a record that still stands. The only non-Redleg elected for the National League was St. Louis Cardinal first baseman Stan Musial, who had only narrowly beaten his Reds counterpart George Crowe. Although Cincinnati had the second-best offense in the majors (they would score 747 runs that year, surpassed only by Milwaukee), most baseball observers felt they obviously did not deserve seven starters in the All-Star Game. An investigation was launched by Commissioner Ford Frick, which found that the majority of the ballots cast had come from Cincinnati; in fact, The Cincinnati Times-Star newspaper had printed up pre-marked ballots with the Cincinnati starting lineup on them, and distributed them with each day's paper to make it easy for Redlegs fans to vote often for their favorite players.https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/13168334/1957-cincinnati-fans-stacked-all-star-team-too The stuff of legends: In 1957, Cincinnati fans stacked the All-Star team too Wulf Steve ESPN June 29, 2015 Meanwhile, Burger Beer, a Redlegs sponsor, had printed 250,000 similar ballots and distributed them to local bars, and stories emerged of bartenders refusing to serve alcohol to customers until they filled out a ballot. Subsequently, Frick suspended fans' voting rights, and appointed Willie Mays of the New York Giants and Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves to substitute for Bell and Post. Bell was kept as a reserve (he would bat for Redlegs teammate Robinson in the seventh and slap a two-RBI double), while Post was injured and would have been unable to play in any event. Hoak and McMillan were each dismissed from the game after a single at-bat, in favour of future Hall of Famers Eddie Mathews and Ernie Banks, respectively. Temple batted twice before giving way to another future Cooperstown resident, Red Schoendienst. (Bailey caught the whole game, but was pinch-hit for in the bottom of the ninth.) The Reds faltered after the All-Star break and dropped to fourth place in the season final standings. Season standings Record vs. opponents CIN Notable transactions June 26, 1957: Warren Hacker was selected off waivers from the Redlegs by the Philadelphia Phillies.Warren Hacker at Baseball Reference Roster 1957 Cincinnati Redlegs Roster Pitchers 40 Tom Acker 36 Vicente Amor 51 Art Fowler 30 Hersh Freeman 31 Don Gross 36 Warren Hacker 47 Jay Hook 42 Hal Jeffcoat 19 Bill Kennedy 35 Johnny Klippstein 46 Brooks Lawrence 39 Joe Nuxhall 34 Claude Osteen 38 Bud Podbielan 33 Charlie Rabe 32 Raúl Sanchéz 45 Dave Skaugstad Catchers  6 Ed Bailey  7 Smoky Burgess  8 Dutch Dotterer Infielders 14 Rocky Bridges 15 George Crowe 19 Bobby Durnbaugh 21 Curt Flood 10 Alex Grammas 17 Bobby Henrich 12 Don Hoak 18 Ted Kluszewski 11 Roy McMillan 16 Johnny Temple Outfielders 25 Gus Bell 24 Jerry Lynch 28 Wally Post 20 Frank Robinson 27 Art Schult 27 Joe Taylor 22 Bob Thurman 29 Pete Whisenant Other batters  9 Don Pavletich Manager  1 Birdie Tebbetts Coaches  4 Jimmy Dykes  3 Tom Ferrick  2 Frank McCormick Player stats = Indicates team leader 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 Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI C Ed Bailey 122 391 102 .261 20 48 1B George Crowe 133 494 134 .271 31 92 2B Johnny Temple 145 557 158 .284 0 37 SS Roy McMillan 151 448 122 .272 1 55 3B Don Hoak 149 529 155 .293 19 89 LF Frank Robinson 150 611 197 .322 29 75 CF Gus Bell 121 510 149 .292 13 61 RF Wally Post 134 467 114 .244 20 74 Other batters Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI Smoky Burgess 90 205 58 .283 14 39 Bob Thurman 74 190 47 .247 16 40 Ted Kluszewski 69 127 34 .268 6 21 Jerry Lynch 67 124 32 .258 4 13 Joe Taylor Joe Taylor (outfielder) 33 107 28 .262 4 9 Alex Grammas 73 99 30 .303 0 8 Pete Whisenant 67 90 19 .211 5 11 Art Schult 21 34 9 .265 0 4 Dutch Dotterer 4 12 1 .083 0 2 Bobby Henrich 29 10 2 .200 0 1 Curt Flood 3 3 1 .333 1 1 Rocky Bridges 5 1 0 .000 0 0 Bobby Durnbaugh 2 1 0 .000 0 0 Don Pavletich 1 1 0 .000 0 0 Pitching Starting pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO Hal Jeffcoat 37 207.0 12 13 4.52 63 Joe Nuxhall 39 174.1 10 10 4.75 99 Other pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G IP W L ERA SO Brooks Lawrence 49 250.1 16 13 3.52 121 Don Gross Don Gross (baseball) 43 148.1 7 9 4.31 73 Johnny Klippstein 46 146.0 8 11 5.05 99 Art Fowler 33 87.2 3 0 6.47 45 Warren Hacker 15 43.1 3 2 5.19 18 Vicente Amor 9 27.1 1 2 5.93 9 Bud Podbielan 5 16.0 0 1 6.19 13 Jay Hook 3 10.0 0 1 4.50 6 Charlie Rabe 2 8.1 0 1 2.16 6 Relief pitchers Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Player G W L SV ERA SO Hersh Freeman 52 7 2 8 4.52 36 Tom Acker 49 10 5 4 4.97 67 Raúl Sánchez 38 3 2 5 4.76 37 Bill Kennedy Bill Kennedy (1948–1957 pitcher) 8 0 2 3 6.39 8 Claude Osteen 3 0 0 0 2.25 3 Dave Skaugstad 2 0 0 0 1.59 4 Awards and honors All-Star Game Ed Bailey, Catcher, Starter Johnny Temple, Second Base, Starter Don Hoak, Third Base, Starter Roy McMillan, Shortstop, Starter Frank Robinson, Outfield, Starter Gus Bell, Outfield, Reserve Farm system Minor League Baseball Open Seattle Rainiers Pacific Coast League Lefty O'Doul AAA Havana Sugar Kings International League Nap Reyes AA Nashville Vols Southern Association Dick Sisler A Savannah Redlegs Sally League Jimmy Brown B Port Arthur/Temple Redlegs Big State League Al Barillari B Wenatchee Chiefs Northwest League Don Lundberg and Bert Haas B Clovis Pioneers Southwestern League Bert Haas C Visalia Redlegs California League Bruce Edwards C Wausau Lumberjacks Northern League Walt Novick D Graceville Oilers Alabama–Florida League Bob Wellman and Charley Grant D Palatka Redlegs Florida State League Johnny Vander Meer D Hornell Redlegs New York–Penn League Dave Bristol LEAGUE CO-CHAMPIONS: GracevillePort Arthur franchise transferred to Temple, May 30, 1957, then folded, August 20; Clovis franchise folded, June 16; Hornell replaced disbanded Bradford franchise in mid-season and began play May 28Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007 References External links 1957 Cincinnati Redlegs season at Baseball Reference Category:Cincinnati Reds seasons Cincinnati Redlegs season Cincinnati Reds