1957 in baseball
The following are the baseball events of the year 1957 throughout the world.
See also: 1957 Major League Baseball season and 1957 Nippon Professional Baseball seasonBaseball Hall of Fame
MLB Most Valuable Player Award
MLB Rookie of the Year Award
Cy Young Award
The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award
The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award
Gold Glove Award
January 5 – Future Jackie Robinson, who broke the baseball color line as the 20th century's first acknowledged Black player in "Organized Baseball" (1946) and Major League Baseball (1947), announces his retirement from the game at age 37. A seven-time All-Star and former National League Rookie of the Year, 1949 Most Valuable Player, and 1955 World Series champion, Robinson had been traded from the Brooklyn Dodgers, for whom he starred for a decade, to the arch-rival New York Giants on December 13, 1956. His retirement nullifies the trade, and he enters private business as an executive with Chock Full o'Nuts, a coffee manufacturer.
Baseball Hall of Famer
January 9 – The release eight-time American League All-Star pitcher Bob Feller. Feller—who will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame with Robinson in 1962, their first year of eligibility—first joined Cleveland in 1936 as a 17-year-old. He would go on to post a 266–162 record with 2,581 strikeouts over 18 years with the team, losing 3½ years due to military service in World War II. His uniform #19 is retired along with him.
Cleveland Indians
Fear Strikes Out
January 5 –
Bob Dernier
January 13 –
Mike Madden
January 14 –
Tony Brizzolara
January 16 –
Steve Balboni
January 16 –
Marty Castillo
January 19 –
Brad Mills
January 22 –
Brian Dayett
January 23 –
Alfonso Pulido
January 25 –
John Flannery
January 6 – , 79, middle infielder who played with four teams in three different leagues over nine seasons between 1897 and 1910, most prominently for the 1909 World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates.
Ed Abbaticchio
January 6 – , 60, shortstop for the 1922 Boston Braves.
Gil Gallagher
January 7 – , 74, backup catcher who played in 1906 for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Ches Crist
January 9 – , 62, second baseman who played with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1916 to 1917 and for the St. Louis Browns in 1921.
Billy Gleason
January 12 – , 40, Hall of Fame Japanese Baseball League pitcher
Victor Starffin
January 17 – , 66, middle infielder and third baseman who played from 1915 to 1916 for the Washington Senators.
Carl Sawyer
January 17 – , 82, catcher for the 1904 Chicago Cubs.
Tom Stanton
January 19 – , 56, pitcher whose career included hurling for seven teams in the Negro National League and Eastern Colored League between 1920 and 1927.
Slim Branham
January 19 – , 71, outfielder who played for the Newark Pepper of the outlaw Federal League in 1915, and later spent six seasons in the Minor Leagues from 1911 through 1916.
Larry Strands
January 22 – , 69, pitcher who spent time with the Guelph Maple Leafs of the Ontario-based Intercounty Baseball League in the early 1910s, before joining the Philadelphia Phillies from 1921 to 1923.
Petie Behan
January 31 – , 60, shortstop for the 1922 Boston Red Sox.