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The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award ( MVP ) is an annual Major League Baseball ( MLB ) award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.
A Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) award is given to the outstanding player in each series, though voters can consider performances made during the divisional series.
Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award until 1980.
The Lee MacPhail Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) award is given to the outstanding player in the ALCS.
No MVP award is given for Division Series play.
Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award till 1980.
The following year, Robinson won the American League Most Valuable Player award, thus becoming the first ( and so far only ) man to win the MVP in each league ( Robinson won the NL MVP in 1961, leading the Reds to the pennant ).
In 1932, at Beaumont in the Texas League, he hit 39 homers with 131 RBIs, won the MVP award, and led Beaumont to the Texas League title.
He led the Tigers to a pennant, and won his 2nd American League MVP award, becoming the first player to win an MVP award at two different positions.
Justin Morneau, drafted in 1999 by the Twins, won the AL MVP award in 2006.
That year, Joe Mauer became only the second catcher in 33 years to win the AL MVP award.
The team MVP that season was Joe Kapp, who threw for seven touchdowns against the Baltimore Colts – still an all-time NFL record ; however, Kapp refused to accept the award, stating, " There is not one most valuable Viking ... there are 40 most valuable Vikings!
During their history, the Giants have featured 15 Hall of Fame players, including NFL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) award winners Mel Hein, Frank Gifford, Charlie Conerly, Y.
* Nigerian Hakeem Olajuwon ( top draft pick in 1984, 2-time champion, 12-time All-Star, 1994 MVP, 1994 and 1995 Finals MVP, 1994 and 1995 Defensive Player of the Year, only player to receive the MVP Award, Defensive Player of the Year Award, and Finals MVP award in the same season, and Hall of Famer )

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He has also won The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award five times, was named an All-Star 11 times, and won the All-Star MVP in 1986.
She has represented Canada at the Winter Olympics four times, capturing three gold and one silver medal and twice being named tournament MVP, and one time at the Summer Olympics in softball.
Jackson has endured three fires to personal property, including a 1991 fire to his home in Oakland which destroyed his 1973 MVP Award.
West was named the first-ever Finals MVP ; this remains the only time that a member of the losing team has won the award.
He has been named MVP more times than any other player in the history of the other three North American Major Professional Leagues ( Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, and National Football League ).
Ray has put out six solo albums, entitled Stag, Prom, Live from Knoxville, Didn't It Feel Kinder, Amy Ray: Live MVP and Lung of Love through Daemon.
The Sun has featured such notable players as the late 7-foot-2 Margo Dydek, Indiana native Katie Douglas, veteran sharpshooter Kara Lawson, University of Connecticut icons Asjha Jones and Nykesha Sales, 2008 MVP runner-up point guard Lindsay Whalen and 2010 Rookie of the Year Tina Charles.
The franchise has been home to many high-quality players such as all-star point guard Sue Bird, sharp-shooter and 2004 Finals MVP Betty Lennox, former UConn star Swin Cash, and Australian power-forward Lauren Jackson.
Although the NHL's leading points scorer often wins the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP, only Alexander Ovechkin and Corey Perry have won both the Richard and the Hart in the same season ; Ovechkin has done so twice, in 2007 – 08, and 2008 – 09.
Since the first Super Bowl was held in 1967, the MVP award has been given to 41 players.
The MVP has come from the winning team every year except 1971, when Dallas Cowboys linebacker Chuck Howley won the award despite the Cowboys ' loss in Super Bowl V to the Baltimore Colts.
Rice has won both the NBA All-Star Game MVP and the NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player awards.
He has also won two Super Bowl MVP awards, has been selected to eight Pro Bowls, and holds the NFL record for most touchdown passes in a single regular season.
He was also named the NFL MVP in 2007 and 2010 ( becoming the first player to be unanimously chosen as MVP in the 2010 season ) as well as 2007 Male Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, the first time an NFL player has been so honored since Joe Montana won the award in 1990.
The MVP has achieved notable successes in raising agricultural production, reducing children ’ s stunting, and cutting child mortality rates, with the results described in several peer-reviewed publications.
The men's basketball team has participated in the NCAA tournament on several occasions in past decades ; the 1992 – 1993 team ( led by future NBA MVP Steve Nash ) was one of 6 No. 15 seeds to defeat a No. 2 seed in the tourney.
Over his 20 NHL seasons, Lidström won four Stanley Cups, seven James Norris Memorial Trophies as the NHL's top defensive player, one Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP, and has been voted into twelve NHL All-Star Games.
The tournament MVP has been presented with the Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player award since 1939.
Historically, the term mitral valve prolapse syndrome has been applied to MVP associated with palpitations, atypical chest pain, dyspnea on exertion, low body mass index, and electrocardiogram abnormalities in the setting of anxiety, syncope, low blood pressure, and other signs suggestive of autonomic nervous system dysfunction.
He has been an MVP caliber player since entering the majors at just 20 years old, having received MVP votes in each of his nine major league seasons, and placing in the top five in the previous three.
Throwing for 261 yards and three touchdowns, Plunkett was named the game's MVP ; subsequently, Plunkett has the distinction of being the first minority to quarterback a team to a Super Bowl victory and the only Latino to be named Super Bowl MVP.

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Roger Staubach surmises that Duane Thomas would have been named MVP if he had cooperated with the press prior to the game.
In addition, his career batting average of. 273 was likely frowned on by many Hall of Fame voters in his early years of eligibility ; at the time of his death, only five players had ever been elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America with batting averages below. 300 – all of them catchers or shortstops, and only one ( Rabbit Maranville ) who had an average lower than Hodges ' or who had not won an MVP award.
Mark Rypien and Hines Ward are the only players born outside the United States to earn the Super Bowl MVP, having been born in Canada and South Korea, respectively.
Beltrán might have been the game's MVP, but the American League came back to win in the 9th inning.
It is unknown to what extent the birds still reproduce successfully, and how much gene flow still exists in what may once have been a large and widely dispersed population undergoing little purging of deleterious recessive alleles and consequently with a high MVP.
* Tim Wakefield — Won Game 1 and Game 4 for the Red Sox, and very likely would have been the ALCS MVP had Boston held on to win the series.
Tim McCarver wrote that the New York Yankees in 1996 " revolutionized baseball " with Mariano Rivera, " a middle reliever who should have been on the All-Star team and who was a legitimate MVP candidate.
Other point guards who have been named NBA MVP include Derrick Rose, Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson ( who somewhat foreshadowed Johnson in that he was 6 ' 5 " m, the height of many forwards in his era ), and two-time winner Steve Nash.
and later refused to shake Richards ' hand after he had been named tournament MVP.
MVP Baseball 2003 was released in 2003 as the successor to EA's Triple Play games, though it bore little more than a graphical similarity to its predecessors, which had been heavily maligned by critics in the series ' final years.
Of those four, Tejada and Pujols have won Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) awards during their careers, and the other two have been named MVPs of the World series.
Larry Bird is the only recipient to have also been named MVP as a player.
His post-season heroics earned him MVP honors for the ALCS, the first time a DH had ever been named MVP.

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