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1956 Pittsburgh Pirates Season
The 1956 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 75th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise, the 70th in the National League. The Pirates finished seventh in the league standings with a record of 66–88. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Game log , - bgcolor="ffbbbb" , 1 , , April 17 , , @ Giants , , 3–4 , , Antonelli , , Friend (0–1) , , — , , 12,790 , , 0–1 , - bgcolor="ffbbbb" , 2 , , April 18 , , @ Giants , , 4–5 , , McCall , , Law (0–1) , , — , , 2,493 , , 0–2 , - bgcolor="ccffcc" , 3 , , April 19 , , @ Giants , , 3–2 , , Kline (1–0) , , Worthington , , — , , 1,922 , , 1–2 , - bgcolor="ffbbbb" , 4 , , April 20 , , Dodgers , , 0–5 , , Craig , , Hall (0–1) , , — , , 23,357 , , 1–3 , - bgcolor="ccffcc" , 5 , , April 21 , , Dodgers , , 3–1 , , Friend (1–1) , , Lehman , , — , , 8,603 , , 2–3 , - bgcolor="ffbbbb" , 6 , , April 22 , , Dodgers , , 1–4 (6) , , Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes Field
Forbes Field was a baseball park in the Oakland (Pittsburgh), Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1909 to June 28, 1970. It was the third home of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and the first home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the city's National Football League (NFL) franchise. The stadium also served as the home American football, football field for the University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Panthers football, "Pitt" Panthers from 1909 to 1924. The stadium was named after its adjacent street, Forbes Ave., itself named for British general John Forbes (British Army officer), John Forbes, who fought in the French and Indian War and named the city in 1758. The US$1 million ($ million today) project was initiated by Pittsburgh Pirates' owner Barney Dreyfuss, with the goal of replacing his franchise's then-current home, Exposition Park (Pittsburgh), Exposition Park. The stadium was made of concrete and steel, the first such stadium in the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Philadelphia Phillies Season
Offseason * October 3, 1955: Peanuts Lowrey was released by the Phillies. * November 7, 1955: Wally Westlake was signed as a free agent by the Phillies.Wally Westlake at ''Baseball Reference'' * December 9, 1955: was purchased by the Phillies from the Chicago Cubs. Regular season Season standings Record vs. opponents Notable transactions * May 14, 1956: Bobby Morgan was traded by the Phillie ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Friend
Robert Bartmess Friend (November 24, 1930 – February 3, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between and , most notably as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. A four-time All-Star, Friend was an integral member of the Pirates team that defeated the New York Yankees in the 1960 World Series. He played for the New York Yankees and New York Mets in his final season of . As of 2019, he still held Pirates records for career innings pitched and strikeouts. He is the first man to lead the league in ERA while pitching for a last place team. Early life Friend was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and grew up in nearby West Lafayette. His father was an orchestra leader, and Friend studied piano seriously until age sixteen, about the time of his father's death. At West Lafayette High School, Friend was an all-state football halfback and an all-state pitcher on the baseball team, and also played basketball and go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Face
Elroy Leon Face (born February 20, 1928), nicknamed The Bullpen Baron, is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. During a 17-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates. A pioneer of modern relief pitching, he was the archetype of what came to be known as the closer, and the National League's greatest reliever until the late 1960s, setting numerous league records during his career. Face was the first major leaguer to save 20 games more than once, leading the league three times and finishing second three times; in 1959 he set the still-standing major league record for winning percentage with a minimum of 13 decisions (.947), and single-season wins in relief, with 18 wins against only one loss. He held the NL record for career games pitched (846) from 1967 until 1986, and the league record for career saves (193) from 1962 until 1982; he still holds the NL record for career wins in relief (96), and he held the league ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lino Donoso
Lino Donoso Galata (September 23, 1922 – October 13, 1990) was a Cuban professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates in and . He also had a lengthy career in the Mexican League, and was elected to its Hall of Fame in . A left-hander born in Havana, Donoso stood tall and weighed . His statistical line starts in 1947 with the New York Cubans of the Negro National League. Seven years later, at age 32, his "organized baseball" tenure began when he won 19 games and lost only eight, with an excellent 2.37 earned run average, for the 1954 Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League, an Open Classification circuit at the highest level of minor league baseball. Donoso was selected to the PCL All-Star team. He began 1955 with the Stars but was recalled to their parent team, the Pirates, in June. In his debut June 18, he allowed only two earned runs to the heavy-hitting Cincinnati Redlegs in a starting assignment at Crosley Field. But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Arroyo
Luis Enrique "Tite" Arroyo, (February 18, 1927 – January 13, 2016) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1955 to 1963. Arroyo was the first Puerto Rican player to appear for the New York Yankees and was a key part of their pennant winning seasons in and .Staff Writer (January 17, 2016"Star reliever during Yankees magical 1961 season" ''The Washington Post'', page C7. Baseball career Arroyo, from Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, made his MLB debut on April 20, 1955. A stocky left-hander, he spent one season primarily as a starter with the St. Louis Cardinals. Though he was a member of the National League All-Star team that year, he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates the next spring, where he was moved to the bullpen. Struggling to establish himself in the role, he went from the Pirates to the Cincinnati Redlegs, then the New York Yankees. Arroyo was the first to play for the Yankees, and despite his earlier struggles, he quickly became an important contributor to the club. Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Rand
Richard Hilton Rand (March 7, 1931 – January 22, 1996) was an American professional baseball catcher who appeared in 72 games in Major League Baseball during all or part of three seasons (, and ) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. Born in South Gate, California, he threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Rand's pro career stretched over 12 seasons (1949–1959 and 1961). Signed initially by the Cardinals, he had two late-season trials with the Redbirds, collecting 12 hits in 41 at bats ( .293) in a dozen games—all of them as the club's starting catcher. St. Louis traded him to Pittsburgh after the 1956 minor-league season, and Rand spent all of 1957 with the Pirates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Atwell
Maurice Dailey "Toby" Atwell (March 8, 1924 – January 25, 2003) was an American professional baseball player who was a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs (–), Pittsburgh Pirates (–) and Milwaukee Braves (). Atwell, listed at tall and , batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Leesburg, Virginia, and served in the United States military during World War II. Career Atwell's baseball career started in the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization in 1946. A strong defensive catcher, he shortened his career when he hurt his knee sliding while playing for the Triple-A Montreal Royals during the International League season. His most productive campaign came in his rookie year with the 1952 Cubs, when he posted career-highs in batting average (.290), RBI (31), runs (36), hits (105), doubles (16), games played (107), and was selected to the National League All-Star team. In he was part of a ten-player, early-June trade that saw the Cubs acquire Base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Virdon
William Charles Virdon (June 9, 1931 – November 23, 2021) was an American professional baseball outfielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Virdon played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 through 1965 and in 1968. He served as a coach for the Pirates and Houston Astros, and managed the Pirates, Astros, New York Yankees, and Montreal Expos. After playing in the minors for the Yankees organization, Virdon was traded to the Cardinals, and he made his MLB debut in 1955. That year, Virdon won the National League Rookie of the Year Award. He slumped at the beginning of the 1956 season, and was traded to the Pirates, where he spent the remainder of his playing career. A premier defensive outfielder during his playing days as a center fielder for the Cardinals and Pirates, Virdon led a strong defensive team to the 1960 World Series championship. In 1962, Virdon won a Gold Glove Award. Following the 1965 season, he retired due to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Del Greco
Robert George Del Greco (April 7, 1933 – October 13, 2019) was an American professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six teams during the 1950s and 1960s, including the Pittsburgh Pirates (1952 and 1956), St. Louis Cardinals (1956), Chicago Cubs (1957), New York Yankees (1957–58), Philadelphia Phillies (1960–61, 1965), and Kansas City Athletics (1961–63). He threw and batted right-handed; Del Greco stood tall and weighed , during his playing days. Del Greco grew up in Pittsburgh's Hill District and was signed by the hometown Pirates. They traded him to the Cardinals on May 17, 1956, in a deal that brought center fielder Bill Virdon to Pittsburgh. After spending most of 1957 with the seventh-place Cubs and in Triple-A, Del Greco was acquired by the pennant-winning Yankees, on September 10. He was a light-hitting, speedy, and defensively-sound player. The Yankees used him to fill in for Mickey Mantle in the late innings, but Del G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Littlefield
Richard Bernard Littlefield (March 18, 1926 – November 20, 1997) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Braves between 1950 and 1958. He batted and threw left-handed, and was listed as tall and . He was born and died in Detroit. He was traded (along with $30,000 cash) by the New York Giants to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Jackie Robinson on December 13, 1956. However, Robinson refused to report to the Giants, choosing instead to retire, and the trade was voided. Moreover, Littlefield was known as one of the most well-traveled and frequently-traded players prior to the free agency era,Bill Nowlin"Dick Littlefield" Society for American Baseball Research Biography Project. appearing for nine of the 16 MLB franchises in existence before 1961—ten, including his brief assignment to the Dodgers' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Milwaukee Braves Season
The 1956 Milwaukee Braves season was the fourth in Milwaukee and the 86th overall season of the franchise. The Braves finished in second place in the National League, just one game behind the Brooklyn Dodgers in the league standings, and one game ahead of the All three teams posted wins on the final day of the season; the Braves had entered the final three games with a game advantage, but dropped the first two at St. Louis while the Dodgers swept the Pirates. The Braves' led the major leagues in home attendance with 2,046,331; next closest was the New York Yankees of the American League at under The runner-up in NL attendance was champion Brooklyn at under The Braves averaged 30,093 for the Regular season Season summary Under opening day manager Charlie Grimm, the Braves got off to a mediocre start at . After a loss on Saturday, June 16, the owners dismissed him and replaced him with who led the Braves to a record for the rest of the season. Finishing at , the Braves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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