All city: New York 1957.

1957 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.

1957	New York Giants	Brooklyn Dodgers	New York Yankees
C	Valmy Thomas	Roy Campanella	Yogi Berra
1B	Whitey Lockman	Gil Hodges	Bill Skowron
2B	Danny O'Connell	Jim Gilliam	Bobby Richardson
SS	Daryl Spencer	Charlie Neal	Gil McDougald
3B	Ray Jablonski	Pee Wee Reese	Andy Carey
LF	Hank Sauer	Gino Cimoli	Elston Howard
CF	Willie Mays	Duke Snider	Mickey Mantle
RF	Don Mueller	Carl Furillo	Hank Bauer
P	Ruben Gomez	Don Drysdale	Tom Sturdivant
P	Johnny Antonelli	Don Newcombe	Bobby Shantz
P	Curt Barclay	Johnny Podres	Bob Turley
P	Ray Crone	Sal Maglie	Johnny Kucks
Man.	Bill Rigney	Walter Alston	Casey Stengel
W-L	69-85	84-70	98-56
Pyth	71-83	88-74	98-56
Dif	-2	-4	0
Rank	6	3	1
WS			won
Attend.	653,923	1,028,258	1,497,134
Att rank	8	5	1
1957	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	26	152	669	585	112	195	26	20	35	97	38	19	76	62	.333	.407	.626	1.033	173	366	14	1	0	6	15
2	LF	Hank Sauer	40	127	428	378	46	98	14	1	26	76	1	0	49	59	.259	.343	.508	.851	125	192	7	0	0	2	2
3	3B	Ray Jablonski	30	107	343	305	37	88	15	1	9	57	0	2	31	47	.289	.346	.433	.779	108	132	8	0	0	8	2
4	2B	Danny O'Connell	28	95	405	364	57	97	18	3	7	28	8	3	33	30	.266	.330	.390	.720	93	142	10	2	5	1	0
5	SS	Daryl Spencer	28	148	591	534	65	133	31	2	11	50	3	1	50	50	.249	.313	.376	.689	85	201	15	1	2	3	0
6	1B	Whitey Lockman*	30	133	502	456	51	113	9	4	7	30	5	5	39	19	.248	.308	.331	.639	72	151	3	2	2	3	3
7	RF	Don Mueller*	30	135	466	450	45	116	7	1	6	37	2	0	13	16	.258	.280	.318	.597	61	143	7	1	1	1	3

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*	30	139	592	508	91	139	25	7	40	92	3	4	77	104	.274	.368	.587	.955	143	298	17	1	3	3	12
2	1B	Gil Hodges	33	150	654	579	94	173	28	7	27	98	5	3	63	91	.299	.366	.511	.877	125	296	11	2	4	6	6
3	RF	Carl Furillo	35	119	440	395	61	121	17	4	12	66	0	2	29	33	.306	.358	.461	.819	111	182	13	5	7	4	4
4	SS	Charlie Neal	26	128	514	448	62	121	13	7	12	62	11	4	53	83	.270	.356	.411	.767	99	184	7	8	3	2	0
5	LF	Gino Cimoli	27	142	590	532	88	156	22	5	10	57	3	1	39	86	.293	.343	.410	.753	95	218	11	4	10	5	1
6	C	Roy Campanella	35	103	380	330	31	80	9	0	13	62	1	0	34	50	.242	.316	.388	.703	82	128	11	4	6	6	6
7	2B	Jim Gilliam#	28	149	695	617	89	154	26	4	2	37	26	10	64	31	.250	.323	.314	.637	67	194	5	4	7	3	0
8	3B	Pee Wee Reese	38	103	378	330	33	74	3	1	1	29	5	2	39	32	.224	.306	.248	.555	47	82	7	1	6	2	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#	25	144	623	474	121	173	28	6	34	94	16	3	146	75	.365	.512	.665	1.177	221	315	5	0	0	3	23
2	1B	Bill Skowron	26	122	501	457	54	139	15	5	17	88	3	2	31	60	.304	.347	.470	.818	123	215	17	3	3	7	6
3	SS	Gil McDougald	29	141	625	539	87	156	25	9	13	62	2	5	59	71	.289	.362	.442	.804	120	238	12	4	19	3	1
4	RF	Hank Bauer	34	137	535	479	70	124	22	9	18	65	7	2	42	64	.259	.321	.455	.776	111	218	8	4	6	4	4
5	C	Yogi Berra*	32	134	545	482	74	121	14	2	24	82	1	2	57	24	.251	.329	.438	.767	109	211	11	1	1	4	10
6	UT	Tony Kubek*	21	127	475	431	56	128	21	3	3	39	6	6	24	48	.297	.335	.381	.716	97	164	4	3	13	4	3
7	LF	Elston Howard	28	110	381	356	33	90	13	4	8	44	2	5	16	43	.253	.283	.379	.663	81	135	18	0	6	2	6
8	2B	Bobby Richardson	21	97	320	305	36	78	11	1	0	19	1	3	9	26	.256	.274	.298	.573	58	91	9	0	3	3	3

Mickey Mantle repeated as AL MVP.  Teammate Yogi Berra had done that before (1954, 1955) and future teammate Roger Maris would edge Mantle out twice and do it after (1960, 1961).  The Yankees won the pennant but lost the World Series 4-3 to the Milwaukee Braves.  Lew Burdette shut out the Yankees in game seven in Yankee Stadium as Dodger Johnny Podres had done two years earlier.  Burdette had three complete game victories allowing only two runs in 27 innings.  The Yankees had four pitchers with at least 20 starts but ace Whitey Ford started only 17 of his 24 games.  Nevertheless, Ford started game one, a complete game victory against Warren Spahn.  Ford lost game five to Burdette 1-0; both pitched complete games.  Casey Stengel was all city manager.

The Giants were all but dead with the lowest NL attendance for the second consecutive year.  The Dodgers drew a million again, 5th most in the NL.  The Yanks led the AL again with 1.5 million.  The Dodgers finished third in the standings, the Giants sixth.  This was the final New York season for both the Giants and Dodgers.

All city pitching honors, partly due to Ford's lack of innings, went to two Dodgers: 20 year old Don Drysdale and lefty Johnny Podres.  Second year 21 year old Sandy Koufax had 122 SO in 104 innings.  The Dodgers were transitioning to a pitching team that would win the World Series in 1959 in Los Angeles.

Duke Snider hit 40 homers for the fifth consecutive season.  In 1957 they were all against righties.

Robert Young as Jim Anderson and Dodger Duke Snider from the episode "Hero Father" of Father Knows Best. Snider was passing through town and Bud tells his friends that his father can get Snider to stop in for a visit with the boys.  The episode aired May 2, 1956 by Screen Gems via Wikimedia Commons

Classic contrast showing the absurdity of the non-uniform playing areas.  Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Duke Snider: 224 home, 183 away; 55% at home; that includes 18 playing for Mets and Giants and FIVE seasons in LA. Snider's home/away splits for five consecutive 40 homer seasons in Ebbets Field Brooklyn, Duke's claim to fame:
1953: 23 home, 19 away: 42 homers
1954: 23 home, 17 away: 40 homers
1955: 23 home, 19 away: 42 homers
1956: 25 home, 18 away: 43 homers
1957: 23 home, 17 away: 40 homers
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Duke Snider died at 84.  Monday, February 28, 2011

Snider's HR splits home/road and v. righty/lefty pitchers detract from his big home run seasons and overall career stats.  See the data.

During his five consecutive 40 HR seasons Snider hit these HR against lefty pitchers: 3, 2, 3, 1, 0.  1957: 40 homers, all against righty pitchers, probably a record.  For perspective, all 1957 Dodgers against lefties: 294 AB / 8 HR = 36.75 AB per HR.  The entire Dodger team hit only 8 homers against lefty pitchers.  Snider was very well protected in a heavily right handed hitting lineup, which faced few lefties.

In 1957 Hall of Fame southpaw Warren Spahn won the MLB Cy Young award.  He faced the Dodgers only once: Sunday, August 4, 1957 1:32PM, County Stadium.  Spahn relieved in the ninth and faced two batters: Don Zimmer and Jim Gilliam, retiring both; Spahn was credited with a save...

Both Snider individually and all Dodgers faced less than 11% lefty pitchers.  Contrast that with MLB lefty pitchers percent of plate Appearances (PA):

1953 30.19%
1954 28.03%
1955 28.73%
1956 26.67%
1957 22.87%
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Duke Snider's Brooklyn teammates protected him from southpaws.  Saturday, March 30, 2013

Percent plate appearances (PA) by lefty batters against lefty pitchers:

Snider 14.20%
Ted Williams 20.87%
Eddie Mathews 22.36%
Willie McCovey 24.23%
Carl Yastrzemski 24.41%
Todd Helton 28.91%
Wade Boggs 29.05%
Rod Carew 31.41%
Barry Bonds 32.90%
George Brett 33.27%
Tony Gwynn 37.93%

Duke Snider had a low percentage because he was the lone real lefty threat in a Brooklyn Dodger lineup with dominant righty power.
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Home runs hit in Roosevelt Stadium 1956-1957.  Monday, April 21, 2014

Eddie Mathews led the visitors with two homers in two games in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ...

It was used for fifteen "home" games by the Brooklyn Dodgers during their last two seasons in Brooklyn - seven in 1956 and eight in 1957. The games were played partly as a negotiating tactic with the Borough of Brooklyn, in pursuit of a new stadium to replace Ebbets Field.
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