1956 Brooklyn Dodgers Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 93-61
Finished 1st in the NL
Attendance: 1,213,562, Avg. 21,196
Ballpark: Ebbets Field
Won League Championship Series
World Series - Lost to New York Yankees 4-3
Manager: Walter Alston (93-61)
Location: New York, New York

1956 Brooklyn Dodgers Roster
1956 Brooklyn Dodgers Results

The Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League ended the 1956 season with a record of 93 wins and 61 losses, finishing first in the NL.

The Dodgers scored 720 runs and allowed 601 runs. Duke Snider walloped 43 home runs for Brooklyn, while Carl Furillo, Gil Hodges, Sandy Amoros and Roy Campanella each swatted 20 or more also. Duke Snider drove in 101 runs. Jim Gilliam led all regular batters by hitting .300. Don Newcombe earned 27 wins on the mound for the team, and Sal Maglie recorded a 2.87 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Walter Alston coached the team. The 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers won the League Championship Series.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Don Newcombe	27	7	.794	3.06	38	36	2	18	5	0	268.0	219	101	91	33	46	8	139	3	0	4	1052
Sal Maglie	13	5	.722	2.87	28	26	0	9	3	0	191.0	154	65	61	21	52	1	108	5	0	1	758
Carl Erskine	13	11	.542	4.25	31	28	2	8	1	0	186.3	189	92	88	25	57	5	95	1	0	6	790
Roger Craig	12	11	.522	3.71	35	32	2	8	2	1	199.0	169	90	82	25	87	5	109	4	1	7	840
Clem Labine	10	6	.625	3.35	62	3	47	1	0	19	115.7	111	48	43	11	39	8	75	3	0	5	492
Ed Roebuck	5	4	.556	3.93	43	0	16	0	0	1	89.3	83	49	39	15	29	2	60	2	0	10	371
Don Drysdale	5	5	.500	2.64	25	12	6	2	0	0	99.0	95	35	29	9	31	3	55	3	0	3	413
Don Bessent	4	3	.571	2.50	38	0	21	0	0	9	79.3	63	23	22	5	31	6	52	0	0	4	324
Ken Lehman	2	3	.400	5.66	25	4	5	0	0	0	49.3	65	35	31	11	23	2	29	0	0	1	231
Sandy Koufax	2	4	.333	4.91	16	10	1	0	0	0	58.7	66	37	32	10	29	0	30	0	2	1	261
Bob Darnell	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Ralph Branca	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	9
Jim Hughes	0	0		5.25	5	0	2	0	0	0	12.0	10	7	7	3	4	1	8	0	0	0	48
Chuck Templeton	0	1	.000	6.61	6	2	2	0	0	0	16.3	20	13	12	2	10	0	8	0	0	0	80
Billy Loes	0	1	.000	40.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.3	5	6	6	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	10
Totals	93	61	.604	3.57	355	154	108	46	11	30	1368.7	1251	601	543	171	441	41	772	21	3	42	5684

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Jim Gilliam	153	701	594	102	178	23	8	6	43	21	9	95	39	.300	.399	.396	.794	235	5	4	6	2	6
Duke Snider	151	652	542	112	158	33	2	43	101	3	3	99	101	.292	.399	.598	.997	324	16	1	6	4	26
Carl Furillo	149	587	523	66	151	30	0	21	83	1	1	57	41	.289	.357	.467	.824	244	27	1	2	4	15
Pee Wee Reese	147	648	572	85	147	19	2	9	46	13	4	56	69	.257	.322	.344	.667	197	14	1	15	4	1
Gil Hodges	153	633	550	86	146	29	4	32	87	3	3	76	91	.265	.354	.507	.861	279	16	0	5	2	10
Jackie Robinson	117	431	357	61	98	15	2	10	43	12	5	60	32	.275	.382	.412	.793	147	9	3	9	2	2
Roy Campanella	124	461	388	39	85	6	1	20	73	1	0	66	61	.219	.333	.394	.727	153	20	1	4	2	15
Randy Jackson	101	346	307	37	84	15	7	8	53	2	1	28	38	.274	.333	.446	.780	137	13	2	4	5	3
Sandy Amoros	114	361	292	53	76	11	8	16	58	3	4	59	51	.260	.385	.517	.902	151	4	1	8	1	6
Charlie Neal	62	150	136	22	39	5	1	2	14	2	2	14	19	.287	.353	.382	.736	52	2	0	0	0	1
Rube Walker	54	156	146	5	31	6	1	3	20	0	1	7	18	.212	.245	.329	.574	48	3	0	1	2	2
Don Newcombe	52	128	111	13	26	6	0	2	16	1	0	12	18	.234	.312	.342	.654	38	4	1	3	1	0
Rocky Nelson	31	102	96	7	20	2	0	4	15	0	0	4	10	.208	.235	.354	.589	34	2	0	0	2	1
Chico Fernandez	34	73	66	11	15	2	0	1	9	2	3	3	10	.227	.261	.303	.564	20	2	0	4	0	1
Sal Maglie	28	73	70	1	9	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	29	.129	.141	.129	.269	9	1	0	2	0	0
Carl Erskine	32	71	66	1	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.121	.121	.136	.258	9	1	0	5	0	0
Dale Mitchell	19	24	24	3	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.292	.292	.333	.625	8	2	0	0	0	0
Ed Roebuck	43	19	18	3	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.333	.333	.444	.778	8	0	0	1	0	0
Don Zimmer	17	21	20	4	6	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	7	.300	.333	.350	.683	7	1	1	0	0	0
Don Drysdale	26	29	26	4	5	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	8	.192	.222	.346	.568	9	1	0	2	0	0
Gino Cimoli	73	38	36	3	4	1	0	0	4	1	0	1	8	.111	.135	.139	.274	5	1	0	1	0	1
Ken Lehman	25	10	10	0	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	.300	.300	.400	.700	4	0	0	0	0	0
Dixie Howell	7	16	13	0	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.231	.267	.385	.651	5	0	0	1	1	1
Dick Williams	7	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Sandy Koufax	16	19	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	.118	.211	.118	.328	2	0	0	0	0	0
Don Bessent	38	20	18	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.111	.105	.111	.216	2	1	0	1	1	0
Clem Labine	62	25	23	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	14	.087	.160	.087	.247	2	1	1	0	0	0
Don Demeter	3	3	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	1.333	1.667	4	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Craig	35	73	61	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	33	.016	.103	.016	.119	1	0	0	5	1	0
Jim Hughes	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Aspromonte	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Templeton	6	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Bob Darnell	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ralph Branca	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1888	5884	5098	720	1315	212	36	179	680	65	37	649	738	.258	.342	.419	.761	2136	146	17	86	34	91

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Gil Hodges	1B	138	121	1120.3	1190	103	10	105	.992	1.387	9.370	0	0	0	0
Rocky Nelson	1B	25	24	187.0	189	20	2	20	.991	1.059	8.360	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	1B	9	9	61.3	67	8	0	5	1.000	11.005	8.333	0	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	2B	102	98	865.0	233	326	11	64	.981	5.816	5.480	0	0	0	0
Charlie Neal	2B	51	34	332.0	70	103	5	24	.972	4.690	3.392	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	2B	22	22	170.7	39	49	1	17	.989	4.641	4.000	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	2B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Randy Jackson	3B	80	74	682.3	84	184	2	19	.993	3.535	3.350	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	3B	72	71	595.0	61	173	8	15	.967	3.539	3.250	0	0	0	0
Pee Wee Reese	3B	12	9	86.7	6	21	2	1	.931	2.804	2.250	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	3B	3	0	4.7	2	1	0	1	1.000	5.786	1.000	0	0	0	0
Roy Campanella	C	121	113	1006.0	659	49	11	3	.985	6.334	5.851	8	30	24	20	45.5
Rube Walker	C	43	37	322.7	184	20	3	4	.986	5.690	4.744	1	8	8	6	42.9
Dixie Howell	C	6	4	38.0	21	1	0	0	1.000	5.211	3.667	0	2	0	1	100.0
Gil Hodges	C	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Duke Snider	OF	150	147	1287.3	358	11	6	1	.984	2.580	2.460	0	0	0	0
Carl Furillo	OF	146	141	1263.3	230	10	4	2	.984	1.710	1.644	0	0	0	0
Sandy Amoros	OF	86	82	713.3	123	3	6	0	.955	1.590	1.465	0	0	0	0
Jim Gilliam	OF	56	54	451.7	107	6	1	1	.991	2.252	2.018	0	0	0	0
Gil Hodges	OF	30	30	223.3	42	0	2	0	.955	1.693	1.400	0	0	0	0
Gino Cimoli	OF	62	4	135.0	35	0	2	0	.946	2.333	.565	0	0	0	0
Jackie Robinson	OF	2	2	17.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.059	1.000	0	0	0	0
Dale Mitchell	OF	2	2	13.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.500	0	0	0	0
Don Demeter	OF	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Don Newcombe	P	38	36	268.0	25	39	1	5	.985	2.149	1.684	0	0	0	0
Roger Craig	P	35	32	199.0	10	22	0	1	1.000	1.447	.914	0	0	0	0
Sal Maglie	P	28	26	191.0	9	20	0	5	1.000	1.366	1.036	0	0	0	0
Carl Erskine	P	31	28	186.3	9	34	1	2	.977	2.077	1.387	0	0	0	0
Clem Labine	P	62	3	115.7	13	18	2	1	.939	2.412	.500	0	0	0	0
Don Drysdale	P	25	12	99.0	8	20	2	1	.933	2.545	1.120	0	0	0	0
Ed Roebuck	P	43	0	89.3	6	17	0	1	1.000	2.317	.535	0	0	0	0
Don Bessent	P	38	0	79.3	3	8	1	1	.917	1.248	.289	0	0	0	0
Sandy Koufax	P	16	10	58.7	4	3	0	0	1.000	1.074	.438	0	0	0	0
Ken Lehman	P	25	4	49.3	4	11	1	0	.938	2.736	.600	0	0	0	0
Chuck Templeton	P	6	2	16.3	1	1	1	0	.667	1.102	.333	0	0	0	0
Jim Hughes	P	5	0	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.200	0	0	0	0
Ralph Branca	P	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Loes	P	1	1	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Darnell	P	1	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Pee Wee Reese	SS	136	135	1157.0	263	367	23	79	.965	4.901	4.632	0	0	0	0
Chico Fernandez	SS	25	16	163.7	34	56	2	11	.978	4.949	3.600	0	0	0	0
Don Zimmer	SS	8	3	45.0	8	9	1	3	.944	3.400	2.125	0	0	0	0
Charlie Neal	SS	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1746	1386	12318.0	4106	1716	111	392	.981	4.254	3.334	9	40	32	27	45.8

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Clem Labine	WS	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	1	1	1	1	12.0	8	1	0	0	3	2	7	0	47
Don Bessent	WS	1	0	1.000	1.80	2	0	1	0	0	10.0	8	2	2	0	3	1	5	1	41
Sal Maglie	WS	1	1	.500	2.65	2	2	0	2	0	17.0	14	5	5	3	6	0	15	0	68
Ed Roebuck	WS	0	0		2.08	3	0	0	0	0	4.3	1	1	1	1	0	0	5	0	14
Don Drysdale	WS	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	2.0	2	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	9
Carl Erskine	WS	0	1	.000	5.40	2	1	1	0	0	5.0	4	3	3	0	2	1	2	0	20
Roger Craig	WS	0	1	.000	12.00	2	1	0	0	0	6.0	10	8	8	3	3	1	4	1	29
Don Newcombe	WS	0	1	.000	21.21	2	2	0	0	0	4.7	11	11	11	4	3	0	4	0	28
Totals		3	4	.429	4.72	16	7	4	3	1	61.0	58	33	32	12	21	5	43	2	256

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	SF	IBB
Gil Hodges	WS	7	27	23	5	7	2	0	1	8	0	0	4	4	.304	.407	.522	.929	12	0	0	0	0
Duke Snider	WS	7	30	23	5	7	1	0	1	4	0	0	6	8	.304	.433	.478	.912	11	0	0	1	3
Jackie Robinson	WS	7	29	24	5	6	1	0	1	2	0	0	5	2	.250	.379	.417	.796	10	2	0	0	0
Carl Furillo	WS	7	27	25	2	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.240	.296	.320	.616	8	0	0	0	0
Pee Wee Reese	WS	7	30	27	3	6	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	6	.222	.276	.296	.572	8	0	1	0	0
Roy Campanella	WS	7	27	22	2	4	1	0	0	3	0	1	3	7	.182	.259	.227	.487	5	0	0	2	1
Jim Gilliam	WS	7	31	24	2	2	0	0	0	2	1	1	7	3	.083	.290	.083	.374	2	1	0	0	0
Don Bessent	WS	2	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	0	1	0	0
Roger Craig	WS	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0
Clem Labine	WS	2	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0	0	0
Sandy Amoros	WS	6	21	19	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.053	.143	.053	.195	1	0	0	0	0
Carl Erskine	WS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Randy Jackson	WS	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Sal Maglie	WS	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0
Dale Mitchell	WS	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Neal	WS	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Don Newcombe	WS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Rube Walker	WS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0
Gino Cimoli	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Don Drysdale	WS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Ed Roebuck	WS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Totals		82	252	215	25	42	8	1	3	24	1	2	32	47	.195	.296	.284	.580	61	5	2	3	4

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Gil Hodges	WS	1B	7	7	61.0	54	5	0	8	1.000	8.705	8.429
Jim Gilliam	WS	2B	6	6	53.0	17	17	0	4	1.000	5.774	5.667
Charlie Neal	WS	2B	1	1	8.0	2	2	1	1	.800	4.500	4.000
Jackie Robinson	WS	3B	7	7	61.0	5	12	0	1	1.000	2.508	2.429
Roy Campanella	WS	C	7	7	61.0	49	3	0	1	1.000	7.672	7.429
Duke Snider	WS	CF	7	7	61.0	20	0	0	0	1.000	2.951	2.857
Sandy Amoros	WS	LF	6	6	51.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.765	1.667
Jim Gilliam	WS	LF	1	1	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000
Gino Cimoli	WS	LF	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000
Sal Maglie	WS	P	2	2	17.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.529	.500
Clem Labine	WS	P	2	1	12.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.500
Don Bessent	WS	P	2	0	10.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Roger Craig	WS	P	2	1	6.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	3.000	1.000
Carl Erskine	WS	P	2	1	5.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.500
Don Newcombe	WS	P	2	2	4.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.857	1.000
Ed Roebuck	WS	P	3	0	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Don Drysdale	WS	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Carl Furillo	WS	RF	7	7	61.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.033	1.000
Pee Wee Reese	WS	SS	7	7	61.0	14	21	1	7	.972	5.164	5.000
Totals			73	63	549.0	183	69	2	23	.992	4.131	3.452

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