The St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Giants, 6 to 3, on May 7, 1956.

1956 St. Louis Cardinals

Final

NYG

Giants

8-9

3

STL

Cardinals

11-6

6

NYG

STL

1

1

1

2

1

0

3

1

0

4

0

0

5

0

0

6

0

5

7

0

0

8

0

0

9

0

R

3

6

H

8

7

E

1

1

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Whitey Lockman LF 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Alvin Dark SS 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Don Mueller RF 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Willie Mays CF 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Daryl Spencer 2B 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Bill White 1B 4 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 7
Foster Castleman 3B 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Dusty Rhodes PH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bobby Hofman PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wes Westrum C 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Windy McCall P 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Hoyt Wilhelm P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Marv Grissom P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hank Thompson PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Al Worthington P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 8 2 1 2 6 0 1 13

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Windy McCall (L) 5.0 6 4 4 3 1 0
Hoyt Wilhelm 0.0 0 2 2 1 0 0
Marv Grissom 1.0 1 0 0 1 0 0
Al Worthington 2.0 0 0 0 3 1 0
Totals 8.0 7 6 6 8 2 0

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Don Blasingame SS 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
Red Schoendienst 2B 5 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
Stan Musial RF 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1
Ken Boyer 3B 4 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
Rip Repulski LF 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Wally Moon 1B 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Bill Sarni C 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Bill Virdon CF 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Walker Cooper PH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Frazier PH 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Jackie Brandt PR,CF 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Ben Flowers P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hal Smith PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lindy McDaniel P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Solly Hemus PH 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gordon Jones P 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Jackie Collum P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 6 7 5 0 8 2 0 1 8

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Ben Flowers 5.0 7 3 3 1 2 1
Lindy McDaniel (W) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Gordon Jones 2.1 1 0 0 1 3 0
Jackie Collum (S) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 9.0 8 3 3 2 6 1

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