On August 31, the Diamondbacks acquired former World Series MVP David Eckstein to fill the hole at second base which was opened after Orlando Hudson was placed on the disabled list.

MVP voting takes place before the postseason, but the results are not announced until after the World Series.

No MVP award is given for Division Series play.

The winners are listed ( 1 ) below in the section on " ALCS results ( 1969-present )", in the " Series MVP " column, ( 2 ) at League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award, and ( 3 ) on the MLB website.

The Marlins finished the 1999 season with the worst record in baseball at 64 – 98, and traded World Series MVP Liván Hernández to the San Francisco Giants.

In a trade considered one of the best in team history, the Marlins acquired Hanley Ramírez and Aníbal Sánchez among others from the Red Sox for World Series MVP Josh Beckett and fan favorite Mike Lowell in a Thanksgiving blockbuster.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

Beckett won the World Series MVP in 2003 and won 41 games as a member of the Marlins, with a 3. 46 ERA.

He went 2 – 0 in the World Series against the Cleveland Indians, winning World Series MVP.

Now back in Houston with two MVP awards and two World Series rings, Morgan wanted to help make the Astros a pennant winner.

In 1957, he won the NL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) Award, while that same year, the Braves won the World Series.

Schmidt, who was the National League MVP that 1980 season, also won the World Series MVP award on the strength of his 8-for-21 hitting (. 381 average ), including game-winning hits in Game 2 and the clinching Game 6.

Hamels was named both NLCS MVP as well as World Series MVP after going 4 – 0 in the postseason that year.

He was also the first Hispanic to win a World Series as a starter ( 1960 ), receive an MVP Award ( 1966 ), and receive a World Series MVP Award ( 1971 ).

In 1986, his 24 wins helped guide the Sox to a World Series berth and earned Clemens the American League MVP award for the regular season.

The Pirates ' Roberto Clemente, who turned into a one-man gang in the Series, became the first Latino player to earn World Series MVP honors.

The deeds of this team, through two seasons and in the two World's Series that followed, have been written and talked about until hardly a word is left to be said.

But there is one small episode that a few New York fans who happened to sit in the cheap seats for one World's Series game in 1926 like best to recall.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

* James Atlas ( born 1949 ), is a founding editor of the Lipper / Viking Penguin Lives Series

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

In Major League Baseball, the American League Championship Series ( ALCS ), played in October, is a round in the postseason that determines the winner of the American League pennant.

In that case, the other team gets home field advantage, because by rule the Wild Card team is never allowed home field advantage in a Division Series or LCS.

There is currently no award for the Most Valuable Player of the Division Series.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

Bundaberg Rum is a major sponsor of the Australian Wallabies rugby union team and also sponsors the Bundaberg Rum Rugby Series.

Baxter is considered an important writer, whose literary work is recognized and highlighted by Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.

The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper.

Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the " Miracle Braves " after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series.

One episode in Series 5 of Steptoe and Son was entitled " Any Old Iron ", for the same reason, when Albert thinks that Harold is ' on the turn '.

In the Superman: The Animated Series episode " The Late Mr. Kent ", wherein Clark Kent is presumed dead, Superman expresses frustration at the idea of not being Clark and having to be someone else instead (" I am Clark Kent.

In the Superman: The Animated Series of the late 1990s, Kent is based on John Byrne's version of him, becoming more assertive and intelligent.

Pride of Bowery, the fourth movie in the East Kid Series is a movie about frienship, trouble and boxing at a Conservation Corps Camp.

In the fourth inning, Jim Bagby hit the first Series home run by a pitcher.

The offseason after their second World Series title, the Marlins made a questionable cost-cutting move as Derrek Lee was traded to Chicago Cubs for Hee Seop Choi and pitcher Mike Nannini.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

* 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.

After the franchise lost its 10, 000th game in 2007, its core of young players, including infielders Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Jimmy Rollins and pitcher Cole Hamels, responded by winning the National League East division title, but they were swept by the Colorado Rockies in the Division Series.

The first no-hitter in postseason history was New York Yankee pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

An 11-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, he won seven Cy Young Awards during his career, the most of any pitcher in MLB history.

In the World Series Clemens became the first ( and only pitcher ) to pitch against the Mets in a World Series while with both the Red Sox and the Yankees, having been with the Red Sox in.

In 1998, Henderson and Valenzuela were gone, but newly acquired ( from the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins ) pitcher Kevin Brown had a sensational year ( his only one with the Padres ) and outfielder / slugger Greg Vaughn bounced back after a poor 1997 season and hit 50 home runs ( overlooked in that season of the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa race ).

* October 2 – Los Angeles Dodgers left-handed pitcher Sandy Koufax sets a World Series record by striking out 15 New York Yankees in a 5-2 victory in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium.

* October 8 – Baseball pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees throws the only perfect game in World Series history in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

* Johnny Podres ( 1932-2008 ), pitcher for Brooklyn Dodgers and 1955 World Series MVP, was born in Witherbee.

* Bruce Kison — Pittsburgh Pirates World Series pitcher

Included in their number are Milt Campbell, the 1956 Olympic Decathlon gold medalist ( the first African-American to earn this title ); and Joe Black, the first African-American pitcher to win a World Series game.

He was the youngest of four sons of a sports-minded family which included Ken, the second oldest, a major league pitcher who had pitched in the 1967 World Series at age 19.

* Tom Browning, former major league pitcher, threw perfect game and while with the Cincinnati Reds, won a World Series.

In 1973, he was named All-American and voted MVP of the College World Series — as a pitcher.

* Dallas Green, Major League Baseball pitcher and manager of the 1980 World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies

Made two appearances as a relief pitcher in the 1964 World Series

Former players for the Dutch Masters include Scott Garrelts, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants ( was supposed to pitch the opener in the 1989 World Series, but an earthquake had other ideas ); Mark Scheiwe, drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1979 ( the same year Scott was drafted by the Giants ), but never making it to the big league because of injury ; and Ernie Westfield, who played in the Negro League and still represents them publicly.

First pitcher to ever appear in all seven games of a World Series.

Taos is also the home of former major league baseball relief pitcher, Tom Henke ( known in his playing days as " The Terminator ") who won the 1992 World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays and, in the final season of his career, pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals.