Games : 1957 National League Top 25

Finding the American or National League leader in virtually every hitting & pitching statistic is easy-to-do. Finding the top 25 players during any given season is far more challenging. Baseball Almanac has taken away that difficult problem and is pleased to present the data you requested:

"Maybe I missed my routine and my game so much that I was trying to rationalize reasons for getting it back. I wanted those 162 games. I wanted all the suspense of the playoff and home run races. And I honestly didn't believe baseball would bend far enough to allow the possibility of games in November. I was wrong. And baseball was right." - Paul White in USA Today Baseball Weekly (September 14, 2001)
 

1957 Games Leaders

Top 25 in the National League

Turk Lown 67 Chicago Cubs 1
Roy Face 59 Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Clem Labine 58 Brooklyn Dodgers 3
Marv Grissom 55 New York Giants 4
Al Worthington 55 New York Giants  
Luis Arroyo 54 Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Turk Farrell 52 Philadelphia Phillies 7
Hersh Freeman 52 Cincinnati Redlegs  
Tom Acker 49 Cincinnati Redlegs 9
Brooks Lawrence 49 Cincinnati Redlegs  
Dick Littlefield 48 Chicago Cubs 11
Bob Purkey 48 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Johnny Klippstein 46 Cincinnati Redlegs 13
Lloyd Merritt 44 St. Louis Cardinals 14
Ed Roebuck 44 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Don Gross 43 Cincinnati Redlegs 16
Jim Brosnan 41 Chicago Cubs 17
Larry Jackson 41 St. Louis Cardinals  
Johnny Antonelli 40 New York Giants 19
Don Elston 40 Brooklyn Dodgers  
Chicago Cubs  
Bob Friend 40 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Ron Kline 40 Pittsburgh Pirates  
Willard Schmidt 40 St. Louis Cardinals  
Hoyt Wilhelm 40 St. Louis Cardinals  
Joe Nuxhall 39 Cincinnati Redlegs 25



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