1957 Nippon Professional Baseball season

1957 NPB season
1957 NPB season
League	Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Central League pennant
League champions	Yomiuri Giants
Runners-up	Osaka Tigers
Season MVP	Wally Yonamine (YOM)
Pacific League pennant
League champions	Nishitetsu Lions
Runners-up	Nankai Hawks
Season MVP	Kazuhisa Inao (NIS)
Japan Series
Champions	Nishitetsu Lions
Runners-up	Yomiuri Giants
Finals MVP	Hiroshi Oshita (NIS)
NPB seasons
	← 1956 1958 →

The 1957 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the eighth season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Regular season

Game	Date	Score	Location	Time	Attendance
1	October 26	Yomiuri Giants – 2, Nishitetsu Lions – 3	Heiwadai Stadium	2:38	23,992^[1]
2	October 27	Yomiuri Giants – 1, Nishitetsu Lions – 2	Heiwadai Stadium	2:18	24,373^[1]
3	October 30	Nishitetsu Lions – 5, Yomiuri Giants – 4	Korakuen Stadium	2:32	30,484^[1]
4	October 31	Nishitetsu Lions – 0, Yomiuri Giants – 0	Korakuen Stadium	3:01	27,649^[1]
5	November 1	Nishitetsu Lions – 6, Yomiuri Giants – 5	Korakuen Stadium	2:37	30,519^[1]

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Wally Yonamine	Yomiuri Giants	.343
Home runs	Noboru Aota Takao Sato	Taiyo Whales Kokutetsu Swallows	22
Runs batted in	Andy Miyamoto	Yomiuri Giants	78
Runs	Hiroji Okajima	Chunichi Dragons	71
Hits	Wally Yonamine	Yomiuri Giants	160
Stolen bases	Tokuji Iida	Kokutetsu Swallows	40

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	28
Losses	Noboru Akiyama	Taiyo Whales	27
Earned run average	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	1.63
Strikeouts	Noboru Akiyama	Taiyo Whales	312
Innings pitched	Noboru Akiyama	Taiyo Whales	406

Batting leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Kazuhiro Yamauchi	Mainichi Orions	.331
Home runs	Katsuya Nomura	Nankai Hawks	30
Runs batted in	Futoshi Nakanishi	Nishitetsu Lions	100
Runs	Yasumitsu Toyoda	Nishitetsu Lions	92
Hits	Futoshi Nakanishi	Nishitetsu Lions	154
Stolen bases	Yosuke Terada	Hankyu Braves	56

Pitching leaders
Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	35
Losses	Masayoshi Miura	Daiei Unions	21
Earned run average	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	1.37
Strikeouts	Takao Kajimoto	Hankyu Braves	301
Innings pitched	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	3732⁄3

Most Valuable Player
- Wally Yonamine, Yomiuri Giants (CL)
- Kazuhisa Inao, Nishitetsu Lions (PL)
Rookie of the Year
- Motoshi Fujita, Yomiuri Giants (CL)
- Tamotsu Kimura, Nankai Hawks (PL)
Eiji Sawamura Award
- Masaichi Kaneda, Kokutetsu Swallows (CL)

1 2 3 4 5 1957年度日本シリーズ　試合結果 (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2010.

Johnson, Daniel E. (July 2006). Japanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2841-0.

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