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1957 Cleveland Indians season

Field	Value
name	Cleveland Indians
season	1957
league	American League
ballpark	Cleveland Municipal Stadium
city	Cleveland, Ohio
owners	William R. Daley
general_managers	Hank Greenberg, Frank Lane
managers	Kerby Farrell
television	WEWS-TV
(Ken Coleman, Jim Britt)
radio	WERE
(Jimmy Dudley, Bob Neal)

(Ken Coleman, Jim Britt) (Jimmy Dudley, Bob Neal) |}} The 1957 Cleveland Indians season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the American League with a record of 76–77, games behind the New York Yankees

Regular season

The Indians season was marked by change. Longtime Indians manager Al López took over as manager of the Chicago White Sox, and was replaced by Kerby Farrell, who had led the Indianapolis Indians to the 1956 Junior World Series crown. Eddie Stanky also became the Indians new infield coach.

Rookie Roger Maris, who was part of Farrell's Indianapolis team, joined the Indians as the team's starting center fielder. He made his major league debut against the Chicago White Sox on April 16. In 5 at bats, Maris had 3 hits. Two days later, Maris hit the first home run of his career, a grand slam off Tigers pitcher Jack Crimian at Briggs Stadium in Detroit.

In grimmer news, on May 7 Gil McDougald of the Yankees hit a pitch off Indians pitcher Herb Score in the first inning. The pitch would strike Score in the face.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

August 24, 1957: Vito Valentinetti was purchased by the Indians from the Brooklyn Dodgers.
September 21, 1957: Hoyt Wilhelm was selected off waivers by the Indians from the St. Louis Cardinals.

Roster

1957 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

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	Jim Hegan	58	148	32	.216	4	15
1B	Vic Wertz	144	515	145	.282	28	105
2B	Bobby Ávila	129	463	124	.268	5	48
SS	Chico Carrasquel	125	392	108	.276	8	57
3B	Al Smith	135	507	125	.247	11	49
LF	Gene Woodling	133	430	138	.321	19	78
CF		116	358	84	.235	14	51
RF	Rocky Colavito	134	461	116	.252	25	84

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
Larry Raines	96	244	64	.262	2	16
Dick Williams	67	205	58	.283	6	17
George Strickland	89	201	47	.234	1	19
Russ Nixon	62	185	52	.281	2	18
Hal Naragon	57	121	31	.256	0	8
Dick Brown	34	114	30	.263	4	22
Joe Caffie	32	89	24	.270	3	10
Joe Altobelli	83	87	18	.207	0	9
Jim Busby	30	74	14	.189	2	4
Billy Harrell	22	57	15	.263	1	5
Kenny Kuhn	40	53	9	.170	0	5
Eddie Robinson	19	27	6	.222	1	3
Preston Ward	10	11	2	.182	0	0
Bob Usher	10	8	1	.125	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
Early Wynn	40	263.0	14	17	4.31	184
Mike Garcia	38	211.1	12	8	3.75	110
Bob Lemon	21	117.1	6	11	4.60	45
	5	36.0	2	1	2.00	39

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
Don Mossi	36	159.0	11	10	4.13	97
Ray Narleski	46	154.1	11	5	3.09	93
Cal McLish	42	144.1	9	7	2.74	88
	34	87.1	2	8	4.43	54
Stan Pitula	23	59.2	2	2	4.98	17
	11	23.2	2	2	4.94	9
Johnny Gray	7	20.0	1	3	5.85	3

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
Dick Tomanek	34	2	1	0	5.68	55
	10	1	1	0	5.75	9
	5	0	1	0	9.00	1
Art Houtteman	3	0	0	0	6.75	3
	2	1	0	1	2.45	0

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Reading

Notes

References

1957 Cleveland Indians team at Baseball-Reference
1957 Cleveland Indians team page at baseball-almanac.com

References

''Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero'', p. 85, Tom Clavin and Danny Peary, Touchstone Books, Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-1-4165-8928-0
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/marisro01.shtml Roger Maris] at ''Baseball-Reference''
''Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero'', p. 87
''Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero'', pp. 88–89
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/v/valenvi01.shtml Vito Valentinetti] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/w/wilheho01.shtml Hoyt Wilhelm] at ''Baseball-Reference''
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition''. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007

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