All city: New York 1955.

1955 all New York City selections are in bold.  Lefty pitchers are in Italics.  Pyth is Pythagorean W-L (estimate of a team's winning percentage given their runs scored and runs allowed).  Comments below.  Click link to view data for years 1947-1957.  Seeing the players in a matrix may have some surprises.  Batting data below sorted by OPS+ per team.

1955	New York Giants	Brooklyn Dodgers	New York Yankees
C	Ray Katt	Roy Campanella	Yogi Berra
1B	Gail Harris	Gil Hodges	Bill Skowron
2B	Wayne Terwilliger	Jim Gilliam	Gil McDougald
SS	Al Dark	Pee Wee Reese	Billy Hunter
3B	Hank Thompson	Jackie Robinson	Andy Carey
LF	Whitey Lockman	Sandy Amoros	Irv Noren
CF	Willie Mays	Duke Snider	Mickey Mantle
RF	Don Mueller	Carl Furillo	Hank Bauer
P	Johnny Antonelli	Don Newcombe	Whitey Ford
P	Jim Hearn	Carl Erskine	Bob Turley
P	Ruben Gomez	Johnny Podres	Tommy Byrne
P	Sal Maglie	Billy Loes	Don Larsen
Man.	Leo Durocher	Walter Alston	Casey Stengel
W-L	80-74	98-55	96-58
Pyth	80-74	95-58	97-57
Dif	0	3	-1
Rank	3	1	1
WS		won	lost
Attend.	824,112	1,033,589	1,490,138
Att rank	6	2	1
1955	New York Giants	Brooklyn Dodgers	New York Yankees

Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+ ▾	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	CF	Willie Mays	24	152	670	580	123	185	18	13	51	127	24	4	79	60	.319	.400	.659	1.059	174	382	12	4	0	7	13
2	3B	Hank Thompson*	29	135	533	432	65	106	13	1	17	63	2	2	84	56	.245	.367	.398	.766	103	172	5	4	5	8	4
3	RF	Don Mueller*	28	147	640	605	67	185	21	4	8	83	1	2	19	12	.306	.326	.393	.720	90	238	13	3	5	7	4
4	SS	Al Dark	33	115	508	475	77	134	20	3	9	45	2	1	22	32	.282	.319	.394	.713	88	187	5	5	4	2	2
5	LF	Whitey Lockman*	28	147	627	576	76	157	19	0	15	49	3	3	39	34	.273	.320	.384	.704	86	221	7	3	6	3	2
6	C	Ray Katt	28	124	355	326	27	70	7	2	7	28	0	0	22	38	.215	.268	.313	.581	53	102	13	2	4	1	4

Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+ ▾	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	CF	Duke Snider*	28	148	653	538	126	166	34	6	42	136	9	7	104	87	.309	.418	.628	1.046	169	338	9	1	4	6	19
2	C	Roy Campanella	33	123	522	446	81	142	20	1	32	107	2	3	56	41	.318	.395	.583	.978	152	260	14	6	5	9	9
3	RF	Carl Furillo	33	140	578	523	83	164	24	3	26	95	4	5	43	43	.314	.371	.520	.891	130	272	15	7	1	4	5
4	1B	Gil Hodges	31	150	642	546	75	158	24	5	27	102	2	1	80	91	.289	.377	.500	.877	127	273	16	3	3	10	3
5	SS	Pee Wee Reese	36	145	652	553	99	156	29	4	10	61	8	7	78	60	.282	.371	.403	.774	103	223	22	3	13	5	1
6	3B	Jackie Robinson	36	105	390	317	51	81	6	2	8	36	12	3	61	18	.256	.378	.363	.740	95	115	8	3	6	3	5
7	LF	Sandy Amoros*	25	119	455	388	59	96	16	7	10	51	10	5	55	45	.247	.347	.402	.749	95	156	8	6	2	4	5
8	2B	Don Zimmer	24	88	309	280	38	67	10	1	15	50	5	3	19	66	.239	.289	.443	.731	88	124	7	2	4	4	5
9	3B	Don Hoak	27	94	332	279	50	67	13	3	5	19	9	5	46	50	.240	.350	.362	.712	87	101	9	1	6	0	0
10	2B	Jim Gilliam#	26	147	627	538	110	134	20	8	7	40	15	15	70	37	.249	.341	.355	.696	83	191	8	6	11	2	4

Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+ ▾	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	CF	Mickey Mantle#	23	147	638	517	121	158	25	11	37	99	8	1	113	97	.306	.431	.611	1.042	180	316	4	3	2	3	6
2	1B	Bill Skowron	24	108	314	288	46	92	17	3	12	61	1	1	21	32	.319	.369	.524	.894	140	151	11	3	0	2	4
3	RF	Hank Bauer	32	139	562	492	97	137	20	5	20	53	8	4	56	65	.278	.360	.461	.821	121	227	4	8	4	3	1
4	C	Yogi Berra*	30	147	615	541	84	147	20	3	27	108	1	0	60	20	.272	.349	.470	.819	120	254	13	7	2	5	6
5	2B	Gil McDougald	27	141	615	533	79	152	10	8	13	53	6	4	65	77	.285	.361	.407	.768	108	217	6	2	8	7	2
6	UT	Joe Collins*	32	105	330	278	40	65	9	1	13	45	0	2	44	32	.234	.339	.414	.753	103	115	7	2	3	3	2
7	LF	Irv Noren*	30	132	422	371	49	94	19	1	8	59	5	2	43	33	.253	.331	.375	.706	91	139	6	3	0	6	5
8	3B	Andy Carey	23	135	570	510	73	131	19	11	7	47	3	3	44	51	.257	.313	.378	.692	87	193	11	1	8	7	6

NL MVP: Roy Campanella; second Duke Snider
AL MVP: Yogi Berra

Whitey Ford Baseball Digest
front cover, April 1954 via Wikimedia Commons

Giant lefty Johnny Antonelli had another good season but not so for Ruben Gomez; Sal Maglie and Jim Hearn were OK.  Don Newcombe returned to full time duty: 20-5, ERA+ 128, 233 innings; Carl Erskine, Johnny Podres, Billy Loes also started.  Whitey Ford led the Yankee staff: 18-7, ERA+ 144, 253 innings: Bob Turley, Tommy Byrne, Johnny Kucks also started.  Ford and Newcombe were all city.

Podres shut out the Yankees in game seven of the World Series in Yankee Stadium.  In the World Series Mickey Mantle was injured and saw limited duty (10 at bats), which included a homer off Podres in game three in Ebbets Field, which Podres also won; Mantle's main replacement, Irv Noren, grounded into five double plays.  Don Hoak played third base in game seven in place of Jackie Robinson who was benched for not hitting: OPS .568.   Managers: Dodger Walter Alston bested Yankee Casey Stengel in WS; Giant Leo Durocher was out of sight, out of mind in his final season as Giant manager, despite winning pennants in 1951 and 1954 and the 1954 WS.

Berra and Campanella each won his third MVP in five years.  It was an unparalleled era of catcher dominance.  Center field was also unparalleled.  Snider tied the Dodger team record in homers he shared with Hodges at 42.  Mays and Mantle led their leagues in homers for the first time, something Snider had yet to do, but it was the third of five consecutive 40 homer seasons for Snider.

Mantle and Mays continue to amaze.  Monday, November 12, 2012

Just when you think you know pretty much everything about childhood baseball legends you learn something new, something hidden in plain sight.

I had known for a while that in 1955 Mickey Mantle led the American League (AL) in both triples (3B) and home runs (HR).  He tied teammate Andy Carey with 11 3B and belted 37 HR.

I later noticed that cross town rival Willie Mays had done the same thing in 1955 with the New York Giants: 13 3B, 51 HR.  Mays tied Dale Long in 3B.

I thought what a coincidence: two players doing something unusual and they did it it in the same year ... playing the same defensive position ... in the same city.  Then I tried to find how many other players had done it.

Since 1903 I found one: Jim Bottomley who led the National League in 1928 with 20 3B, 31 HR.  Only one other batter in the modern era and Mickey and Willie had those other coincidences to add to the special nature of their accomplishments.
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