1956 New York Yankees Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 97-57
Finished 1st in the AL
Attendance: 1,491,784, Avg. 22,949
Ballpark: Yankee Stadium I
Won World Series
World Series - Defeated Brooklyn Dodgers 4-3
Manager: Casey Stengel (97-57)
Location: New York, New York

1956 New York Yankees Roster
1956 New York Yankees Results

The New York Yankees of the American League ended the 1956 season with a record of 97 wins and 57 losses, finishing first in the AL.

The Yankees led the circuit with 857 runs, powered by 190 home runs. New York allowed 631 runs. Mickey Mantle crushed 52 homers for the squad, while Yogi Berra, Bill Skowron and Hank Bauer each walloped 20 or more as well. Mickey Mantle drove in 130 runs and topped all regular hitters by hitting .353. Whitey Ford paced the team with 19 wins, plus Johnny Kucks and Tom Sturdivant added 15 or more wins, too Whitey Ford recorded a 2.47 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Casey Stengel coached the team. The 1956 New York Yankees won the World 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
Whitey Ford	19	6	.760	2.47	31	30	1	18	2	1	225.7	187	70	62	13	84	3	141	4	0	6	920
Johnny Kucks	18	9	.667	3.85	34	31	1	12	3	0	224.3	223	113	96	19	72	0	67	10	1	3	947
Tom Sturdivant	16	8	.667	3.30	32	17	11	6	2	5	158.3	134	63	58	15	52	4	110	4	0	2	656
Don Larsen	11	5	.688	3.26	38	20	9	6	1	1	179.7	133	72	65	19	96	0	107	7	0	3	759
Bob Turley	8	4	.667	5.05	27	21	3	5	1	1	132.0	138	76	74	13	103	0	91	4	1	3	621
Tommy Byrne	7	3	.700	3.36	37	8	18	1	0	6	109.7	108	50	41	9	72	5	52	2	0	0	493
Bob Grim	6	1	.857	2.77	26	6	11	1	0	5	74.7	64	27	23	3	31	0	48	2	0	1	309
Tom Morgan	6	7	.462	4.16	41	0	23	0	0	11	71.3	74	41	33	2	27	4	20	3	0	0	304
Rip Coleman	3	5	.375	3.67	29	9	9	0	0	2	88.3	97	42	36	6	42	1	42	1	0	1	392
Mickey McDermott	2	6	.250	4.24	23	9	11	1	0	0	87.0	85	46	41	10	47	2	38	0	0	2	384
Ralph Terry	1	2	.333	9.45	3	3	0	0	0	0	13.3	17	15	14	2	11	0	8	0	0	0	62
Jim Konstanty	0	0		4.91	8	0	5	0	0	2	11.0	15	6	6	3	6	0	6	0	0	0	53
Jim Coates	0	0		13.50	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	3	3	0	4	0	0	1	0	1	12
Gerry Staley	0	0		108.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	4	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Sonny Dixon	0	1	.000	2.08	3	0	2	0	0	1	4.3	5	3	1	0	5	1	1	0	0	0	23
Totals	97	57	.630	3.63	335	154	104	50	9	35	1382.0	1285	631	557	114	652	20	732	38	2	22	5940

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
Mickey Mantle	150	652	533	132	188	22	5	52	130	10	1	112	99	.353	.464	.705	1.169	376	4	2	1	4	6
Yogi Berra	140	597	521	93	155	29	2	30	105	3	2	65	29	.298	.378	.534	.911	278	8	5	1	5	7
Bill Skowron	134	523	464	78	143	21	6	23	90	4	4	50	60	.308	.382	.528	.910	245	16	6	2	1	3
Gil McDougald	120	518	438	79	136	13	3	13	56	3	8	68	59	.311	.405	.443	.848	194	5	3	7	2	1
Hank Bauer	147	612	539	96	130	18	7	26	84	4	2	59	72	.241	.316	.445	.761	240	11	2	7	5	3
Billy Martin	121	504	458	76	121	24	5	9	49	7	3	30	56	.264	.310	.397	.708	182	8	3	8	5	0
Andy Carey	132	480	422	54	100	18	2	7	50	9	6	45	53	.237	.310	.339	.649	143	9	2	6	5	4
Elston Howard	98	316	290	35	76	8	3	5	34	0	1	21	30	.262	.312	.362	.674	105	11	1	2	2	6
Joe Collins	100	301	262	38	59	5	3	7	43	3	1	34	33	.225	.313	.347	.661	91	5	1	1	3	2
Jerry Coleman	80	203	183	15	47	5	1	0	18	1	2	12	33	.257	.305	.295	.600	54	5	1	6	1	2
Bob Cerv	54	135	115	16	35	5	6	3	25	0	1	18	13	.304	.396	.530	.926	61	3	0	1	1	0
Norm Siebern	54	184	162	27	33	1	4	4	21	1	1	19	38	.204	.286	.333	.619	54	3	0	2	1	0
Enos Slaughter	24	89	83	15	24	4	2	0	4	1	1	5	6	.289	.330	.386	.715	32	0	0	1	0	0
Billy Hunter	39	79	75	8	21	3	4	0	11	0	1	2	4	.280	.299	.427	.725	32	3	0	2	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	32	68	64	5	20	1	1	0	5	0	0	0	7	.313	.308	.359	.667	23	0	0	3	1	0
Don Larsen	45	86	79	10	19	5	0	2	12	0	0	6	17	.241	.294	.380	.674	30	2	0	1	0	0
Whitey Ford	31	92	78	9	17	2	0	0	4	0	0	9	14	.218	.299	.244	.542	19	0	0	5	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	20	68	62	12	16	3	0	0	4	1	1	5	11	.258	.313	.306	.620	19	1	0	1	0	2
Tommy Byrne	44	56	52	8	14	1	1	3	10	0	0	2	11	.269	.296	.500	.796	26	1	0	2	0	1
Phil Rizzuto	31	65	52	6	12	0	0	0	6	3	0	6	6	.231	.310	.231	.541	12	1	0	7	0	0
Eddie Robinson	26	62	54	7	12	1	0	5	11	0	1	5	3	.222	.323	.519	.841	28	0	3	0	0	1
Mickey McDermott	46	61	52	4	11	0	0	1	4	0	0	8	13	.212	.317	.269	.586	14	4	0	1	0	0
Johnny Kucks	34	91	77	7	11	1	0	0	1	0	0	7	25	.143	.224	.156	.379	12	0	1	6	0	0
Irv Noren	29	49	37	4	8	1	0	0	6	0	0	12	7	.216	.408	.243	.651	9	1	0	0	0	2
Bob Turley	27	52	46	5	8	2	0	0	3	0	1	3	16	.174	.224	.217	.442	10	0	0	3	0	0
Tom Carroll	36	18	17	11	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	.353	.389	.353	.742	6	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Silvera	7	11	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.222	.364	.222	.586	2	1	0	0	0	0
George Wilson	11	15	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.167	.333	.167	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Morgan	41	17	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.154	.214	.154	.368	2	0	0	3	0	0
Lou Skizas	6	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ralph Terry	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bobby Richardson	5	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Grim	26	21	16	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	9	.063	.250	.063	.313	1	0	0	1	0	0
Rip Coleman	29	27	24	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.042	.080	.042	.122	1	0	0	2	0	0
Sonny Dixon	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Konstanty	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gerry Staley	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Coates	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1936	6075	5312	857	1433	193	55	190	788	51	37	615	755	.270	.347	.434	.781	2306	102	30	82	36	40

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Bill Skowron	1B	120	117	1011.3	968	80	7	138	.993	9.326	8.733	0	0	0	0
Joe Collins	1B	43	25	256.3	251	30	0	37	1.000	9.866	6.535	0	0	0	0
Eddie Robinson	1B	14	12	109.0	121	6	0	13	1.000	1.486	9.071	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	1B	1	0	5.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	5.000	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	2B	105	101	876.0	241	260	10	84	.980	5.147	4.771	0	0	0	0
Jerry Coleman	2B	41	27	264.3	89	94	4	32	.979	6.231	4.463	0	0	0	0
Gil McDougald	2B	31	24	218.3	57	77	2	28	.985	5.524	4.323	0	0	0	0
Bobby Richardson	2B	5	2	23.0	15	4	0	2	1.000	7.435	3.800	0	0	0	0
Andy Carey	3B	131	128	1087.0	114	265	21	26	.948	3.138	2.893	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	3B	16	11	102.3	12	28	5	3	.889	3.518	2.500	0	0	0	0
Jerry Coleman	3B	18	6	76.3	9	10	2	0	.905	2.240	1.056	0	0	0	0
Gil McDougald	3B	5	4	37.0	5	13	1	4	.947	4.378	3.600	0	0	0	0
Tom Carroll	3B	11	1	35.0	0	12	2	2	.857	3.086	1.091	0	0	0	0
Billy Hunter	3B	4	2	21.0	2	6	0	2	1.000	3.429	2.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Skowron	3B	2	2	17.0	1	6	1	0	.875	3.706	3.500	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	3B	1	0	6.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	2.000	0	0	0	0
Yogi Berra	C	135	134	1172.3	732	55	11	15	.986	6.042	5.830	7	14	26	24	48.0
Elston Howard	C	26	19	184.0	108	14	0	5	1.000	5.967	4.692	2	5	7	9	56.3
Charlie Silvera	C	7	1	25.3	9	1	1	0	.909	3.553	1.429	0	2	0	0
Mickey Mantle	OF	144	144	1261.7	370	10	4	3	.990	2.711	2.639	0	0	0	0
Hank Bauer	OF	146	135	1200.0	242	10	8	2	.969	1.890	1.726	0	0	0	0
Elston Howard	OF	65	51	483.7	97	2	1	0	.990	1.842	1.523	0	0	0	0
Norm Siebern	OF	51	39	372.0	100	1	3	0	.971	2.444	1.980	0	0	0	0
Joe Collins	OF	51	37	338.0	95	2	1	0	.990	2.583	1.902	0	0	0	0
Bob Cerv	OF	44	30	261.3	59	4	1	2	.984	2.170	1.432	0	0	0	0
Enos Slaughter	OF	20	18	150.3	28	1	0	0	1.000	1.736	1.450	0	0	0	0
Irv Noren	OF	10	7	55.0	6	1	1	0	.875	1.145	.700	0	0	0	0
George Wilson	OF	6	0	19.0	3	0	1	0	.750	1.421	.500	0	0	0	0
Yogi Berra	OF	1	1	4.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	6.750	3.000	0	0	0	0
Whitey Ford	P	31	30	225.7	9	57	1	6	.985	2.632	2.129	0	0	0	0
Johnny Kucks	P	34	31	224.0	13	40	5	5	.914	2.129	1.559	0	0	0	0
Don Larsen	P	38	20	179.7	13	23	3	3	.923	1.803	.947	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	P	32	17	158.3	11	13	2	1	.923	1.364	.750	0	0	0	0
Bob Turley	P	27	21	132.0	3	18	1	2	.955	1.432	.778	0	0	0	0
Tommy Byrne	P	37	8	109.7	8	18	1	4	.963	2.134	.703	0	0	0	0
Rip Coleman	P	29	9	88.3	10	14	2	0	.923	2.445	.828	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	P	23	9	87.0	2	13	0	2	1.000	1.552	.652	0	0	0	0
Bob Grim	P	26	6	74.7	4	8	1	2	.923	1.446	.462	0	0	0	0
Tom Morgan	P	41	0	71.3	2	18	2	5	.909	2.523	.488	0	0	0	0
Ralph Terry	P	3	3	13.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.675	.333	0	0	0	0
Jim Konstanty	P	8	0	11.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.818	.125	0	0	0	0
Sonny Dixon	P	3	0	4.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.154	.667	0	0	0	0
Jim Coates	P	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0	0
Gerry Staley	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Gil McDougald	SS	92	88	768.0	177	273	14	77	.970	5.273	4.891	0	0	0	0
Billy Hunter	SS	32	19	175.0	49	58	0	20	1.000	5.503	3.344	0	0	0	0
Jerry Coleman	SS	24	18	159.3	40	48	3	14	.967	4.971	3.667	0	0	0	0
Phil Rizzuto	SS	30	15	154.3	31	54	6	17	.934	4.957	2.833	0	0	0	0
Jerry Lumpe	SS	17	14	123.0	32	55	8	15	.916	6.366	5.118	0	0	0	0
Tom Carroll	SS	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1785	1386	12435.0	4145	1711	136	572	.977	4.238	3.281	9	21	33	33	50.0

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	BF
Don Larsen	WS	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	2	0	1	1	10.7	1	4	0	0	4	0	7	37
Johnny Kucks	WS	1	0	1.000	0.82	3	1	0	1	1	11.0	6	2	1	0	3	0	2	40
Tom Sturdivant	WS	1	0	1.000	2.79	2	1	0	1	0	9.7	8	3	3	0	8	0	9	43
Whitey Ford	WS	1	1	.500	5.25	2	2	0	1	0	12.0	14	8	7	2	2	0	8	50
Tommy Byrne	WS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0.3	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	2
Mickey McDermott	WS	0	0		3.00	1	0	1	0	0	3.0	2	2	1	0	3	0	3	15
Bob Turley	WS	0	1	.000	0.82	3	1	1	1	0	11.0	4	1	1	0	8	2	14	44
Tom Morgan	WS	0	1	.000	9.00	2	0	0	0	0	4.0	6	4	4	0	4	2	3	21
Totals		4	3	.571	2.48	16	7	2	5	2	61.7	42	25	17	3	32	4	47	252

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH	SF	IBB
Yogi Berra	WS	7	29	25	5	9	2	3	10	0	4	1	.360	.448	.800	1.248	20	0	0	0	2
Hank Bauer	WS	7	32	32	3	9	0	1	3	1	0	5	.281	.281	.375	.656	12	0	0	0	0
Billy Martin	WS	7	28	27	5	8	0	2	3	0	1	6	.296	.321	.519	.840	14	2	0	0	0
Enos Slaughter	WS	6	25	20	6	7	0	1	4	0	4	0	.350	.440	.500	.940	10	0	0	1	2
Mickey Mantle	WS	7	30	24	6	6	1	3	4	1	6	5	.250	.400	.667	1.067	16	1	0	0	1
Joe Collins	WS	6	23	21	2	5	2	0	2	0	2	3	.238	.304	.333	.638	7	2	0	0	0
Andy Carey	WS	7	20	19	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	6	.158	.200	.158	.358	3	0	0	0	0
Gil McDougald	WS	7	26	21	0	3	0	0	1	0	3	6	.143	.240	.143	.383	3	0	1	1	0
Elston Howard	WS	1	5	5	1	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	.400	.400	1.200	1.600	6	0	0	0	0
Bob Cerv	WS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	WS	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0
Tom Morgan	WS	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0
Don Larsen	WS	2	4	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	1	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	WS	2	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Skowron	WS	3	10	10	1	1	0	1	4	0	0	3	.100	.100	.400	.500	4	0	0	0	0
Tommy Byrne	WS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Coleman	WS	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0	0
Whitey Ford	WS	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0
Johnny Kucks	WS	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0	0
Norm Siebern	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Turley	WS	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
George Wilson	WS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Totals		80	256	229	33	58	6	12	33	2	21	43	.253	.313	.437	.750	100	6	4	2	5

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Joe Collins	WS	1B	5	5	44.7	30	3	2	4	.943	6.649	6.600
Bill Skowron	WS	1B	2	2	17.0	21	4	1	3	.962	13.235	12.500
Billy Martin	WS	2B	7	6	53.7	12	18	0	4	1.000	5.031	4.286
Jerry Coleman	WS	2B	2	1	8.0	2	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	2.000
Andy Carey	WS	3B	7	6	53.7	7	10	2	0	.895	2.851	2.429
Billy Martin	WS	3B	2	1	8.0	2	2	0	1	1.000	4.500	2.000
Yogi Berra	WS	C	7	7	61.7	50	3	0	0	1.000	7.735	7.571
Mickey Mantle	WS	CF	7	7	61.7	18	1	0	0	1.000	2.773	2.714
Enos Slaughter	WS	LF	6	6	52.7	8	1	0	0	1.000	1.538	1.500
Elston Howard	WS	LF	1	1	9.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000
Whitey Ford	WS	P	2	2	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.500
Bob Turley	WS	P	3	1	11.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.636	.667
Johnny Kucks	WS	P	3	1	11.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	2.455	1.000
Don Larsen	WS	P	2	2	10.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.844	.500
Tom Sturdivant	WS	P	2	1	9.7	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.862	1.000
Tom Morgan	WS	P	2	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Mickey McDermott	WS	P	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Tommy Byrne	WS	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Hank Bauer	WS	RF	7	7	61.7	14	1	1	0	.938	2.189	2.143
Gil McDougald	WS	SS	7	7	61.7	15	16	0	4	1.000	4.524	4.429
Totals			76	63	555.0	185	66	6	17	.977	4.070	3.303

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