1957 Gold Gloves

Below are the winners of the 1957 Gold Glove awards. The award is given annually by Rawlings, makers of baseball gloves, to the best defensive player at each position in each league. Since 1965 managers and coaches have voted for the winners, though they cannot vote for players on their own team.

In this first year of the award, there were not separate awards for each league; the "best" fielders from all of major league baseball were put on a single all-star fielding team. Perhaps not surprisingly, Willie Mays was the only unanimous choice. Even then his fielding exploits were legendary.

Rawlings also had a contest in 1957 for kids to select who they thought would win. The kids choices that differed were Stan Musial at 1B, Don Hoak at 3B, Charlie Maxwell in LF, and Yogi Berra behind the plate. Four guessed eight of the nine correctly and Ronald Quintelier was judged the winner.

Read more about the award, including a complete list of winners, here.

Notes: Three outfielders were chosen regardless of position (LF, CF, RF) starting in 1961. Such players are therefore shown above in random outfield positions and not necessarily where they played. National League players are in yellow while American Leaguers are in white.