All city: New York 1956.

1956 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.

Note: Jackie Robinson defensive position plate appearances (PA): 3B 286, 2B 92, 1B 32, LF 2.  Listed as starters for the Dodgers: Randy Jackson 3B 346, Sandy Amoros LF 362.  I listed Robinson as the starter at 3B.

1956	New York Giants	Brooklyn Dodgers	New York Yankees
C	Bill Sarni	Roy Campanella	Yogi Berra
1B	Bill White	Gil Hodges	Bill Skowron
2B	Red Schoendienst	Jim Gilliam	Billy Martin
SS	Daryl Spencer	Pee Wee Reese	Gil McDougald
3B	Foster Castleman	Jackie Robinson	Andy Carey
LF	Jackie Brandt	Sandy Amoros	Elston Howard
CF	Willie Mays	Duke Snider	Mickey Mantle
RF	Don Mueller	Carl Furillo	Hank Bauer
P	Johnny Antonelli	Don Newcombe	Whitey Ford
P	Jim Hearn	Sal Maglie	Johnny Kucks
P	Ruben Gomez	Roger Craig	Don Larsen
P	Al Worthington	Carl Erskine	Tom Sturdivant
Man.	Bill Rigney	Walter Alston	Casey Stengel
W-L	67-87	93-61	97-57
Pyth	64-90	90-64	98-56
Dif	3	3	-1
Rank		1	1
WS		lost	won
Attend.	629,179	1,213,562	1,491,784
Att rank	8	2	1
1956	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	25	152	651	578	101	171	27	8	36	84	40	10	68	65	.296	.369	.557	.926	146	322	16	1	0	3	20
2	LF	Jackie Brandt	22	98	373	351	45	105	16	8	11	47	3	4	17	31	.299	.330	.484	.814	117	170	3	0	3	2	2
3	1B	Bill White*	22	138	568	508	63	130	23	7	22	59	15	8	47	72	.256	.321	.459	.780	108	233	6	4	5	4	3
4	2B	Red Schoendienst#	33	92	368	334	39	99	12	3	2	14	1	2	28	10	.296	.352	.368	.721	96	123	11	2	2	2	1
5	3B	Foster Castleman	25	124	409	385	33	87	16	3	14	45	2	1	15	50	.226	.256	.392	.648	72	151	9	2	3	4	2
6	RF	Don Mueller*	29	138	474	453	38	122	12	1	5	41	0	1	15	7	.269	.290	.333	.624	68	151	18	0	2	4	2
7	SS	Daryl Spencer	27	146	534	489	46	108	13	2	14	42	1	3	35	65	.221	.275	.342	.617	66	167	10	3	4	3	2

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*	29	151	652	542	112	158	33	2	43	101	3	3	99	101	.292	.399	.598	.997	155	324	16	1	6	4	26
2	LF	Sandy Amoros*	26	114	362	292	53	76	11	8	16	58	3	4	59	51	.260	.385	.517	.902	132	151	4	1	8	1	6
3	1B	Gil Hodges	32	153	633	550	86	146	29	4	32	87	3	3	76	91	.265	.354	.507	.861	120	279	16	0	5	2	10
4	RF	Carl Furillo	34	149	587	523	66	151	30	0	21	83	1	1	57	41	.289	.357	.467	.824	112	244	27	1	2	4	15
5	2B	Jim Gilliam#	27	153	701	594	102	178	23	8	6	43	21	9	95	39	.300	.399	.396	.794	108	235	5	4	6	2	6
6	IF	Jackie Robinson	37	117	431	357	61	98	15	2	10	43	12	5	60	32	.275	.382	.412	.793	106	147	9	3	9	2	2
7	3B	Randy Jackson	30	101	346	307	37	84	15	7	8	53	2	1	28	38	.274	.333	.446	.780	100	137	13	2	4	5	3
8	C	Roy Campanella	34	124	461	388	39	85	6	1	20	73	1	0	66	61	.219	.333	.394	.727	88	153	20	1	4	2	15
9	SS	Pee Wee Reese	37	147	648	572	85	147	19	2	9	46	13	4	56	69	.257	.322	.344	.667	74	197	14	1	15	4	1

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#	24	150	652	533	132	188	22	5	52	130	10	1	112	99	.353	.464	.705	1.169	210	376	4	2	1	4	6
2	C	Yogi Berra*	31	140	596	521	93	155	29	2	30	105	3	2	65	29	.298	.378	.534	.911	142	278	8	5	1	5	7
3	1B	Bill Skowron	25	134	523	464	78	143	21	6	23	90	4	4	50	60	.308	.382	.528	.910	142	245	16	6	2	1	3
4	SS	Gil McDougald	28	120	518	438	79	136	13	3	13	56	3	8	68	59	.311	.405	.443	.848	127	194	5	3	7	2	1
5	RF	Hank Bauer	33	147	612	539	96	130	18	7	26	84	4	2	59	72	.241	.316	.445	.761	102	240	11	2	7	5	3
6	2B	Billy Martin	28	121	504	458	76	121	24	5	9	49	7	3	30	56	.264	.310	.397	.708	89	182	8	3	8	5	0
7	LF	Elston Howard	27	98	316	290	35	76	8	3	5	34	0	1	21	30	.262	.312	.362	.674	80	105	11	1	2	2	6
8	3B	Andy Carey	24	132	481	422	54	100	18	2	7	50	9	6	45	53	.237	.310	.339	.649	74	143	9	2	6	5	4

Casey Stengel and Mickey Mantle 

Babe Ruth didn't do it.  Neither did Joe DiMaggio.  Nor Duke Snider or Willie Mays.  Lou Gehrig did it.  In 1956 Mickey Mantle did it.  Mantle led the league in the triple crown stats: 52 home runs, 130 RBI, .353 batting average (BA).  His BA was boosted ten points by bunting the most times in his career: 12 for 20; Ted Williams had a .345 BA.  Mantle won his triple crown by bunting.

AL MVP: Mickey Mantle
NL MVP: Don Newcombe (27-7, ERA+ 131)

For the third consecutive year New York players won the MVP award in both leagues.  Newcombe also won the first Cy Young award for the best pitcher in either league.  Duke Snider finished TENTH in MVP despite leading the NL in HR, BB, OBP, SLG, OPS, OPS+, IBB.  Snider's 43 HR broke the Dodger record that he shared with Gil Hodges; Snider hit 42 twice.  Maybe it was something Snider said like bad mouthing Dodger fans and calling Ebbets Field a dump.

Duke Snider died at 84.  Monday, February 28, 2011

MVP 10 behind Don Newcombe (Brooklyn), Sal Maglie, Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn, Jim Gilliam (Brooklyn), Roy McMillan, Frank Robinson, Pee Wee Reese (Brooklyn), Stan Musial.  Three Brooklyn teammates finished ahead of Snider.  Go figure.  Snider's BA was .292 and that probably cost him in the MVP voting but maybe the writers were angry at Duke.  This vote is absurd.  From the NY Times obit:

But a year after the tirade against the fans, Snider was chided by some sportswriters as being ungrateful for his good fortune when he collaborated with Kahn for a May 1956 article in Collier’s titled “I Play Baseball for Money — Not Fun.”
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Gil McDougald was all city in 1955 at 2B.  In 1956 McDougald moved to SS and was all city as Billy Martin returned to 2B.  Whitey Ford (19-6, ERA+ 157) was the all city lefty starter.  Don Larsen pitched a perfect game in Yankee Stadium in game five of the World Series and Yogi Berra hit two homers off Newcombe in game seven in Ebbets Field as Johnny Kucks shut out the Dodgers making the Yankees champs and Casey Stengel all city manager again.

Willie Mays was still great and Johnny Antonelli had another big season (20-13, ERA+ 132) but the Giants finished last in National League attendance only two years after winning the World Series.  The Giants became the first team in this study starting in 1947 to have no players make all city.  Bill Rigney had replaced Leo Durocher as manager.

The Dodgers had almost twice their attendance and the Yankees again led in New York and in the American League.  However, the gap between the Dodgers and Yankees was not as great as in the early 1950s.  The Dodgers were still viable in New York, even more so if they could get a new ball park.

Snider was still only 29 but the other long time Dodger regulars were all at least 32.  Robinson was 0 for 3 with a BB, SO and GDP in game seven and never played again.  Campanella had suddenly stopped hitting and was washed up at 34 with one more down season before his tragic car accident, which left him paralyzed.  1956 was the last Dodger pennant in Brooklyn.  They had won in 1920, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956.  The Brooklyn Dodgers won one World Series: 1955.

Dodgers down under. What the heck, mate?  Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season but they tested the west by playing 15 games in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ during their final two seasons in Brooklyn.  The trolley (google it) dodgers were abandoning their roots.
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