League Most Valuable Player

• Hoying Learning More About Baseball After Mvp Season ; 2007 Fort Loramie High School Grad Was Named Most Valuable Player of the Northwest League.

FORT LORAMIE -- Jared Hoying, a rookie playing for the Spokane (Wash.) Indians, recently was named Most Valuable Player of the Northwest League (Rookie A). Hoying, a 2007 graduate of Fort Loramie High School, hit .326 this season with 75 hits including 10 home runs, 12 doubles, five triples and 50 RBIs in just 55 games. He also stole 19 bases, tying him for second in the NWL.

• Dayton Daily News
• September 30, 2010

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National League MVP voting Voting for the National League Most Valuable Player Award, with first-, second- and third-place votes and total points based on a 14- 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis:

• Charleston Gazette
• November 23, 2011

• Boston Second Baseman Named Al Mvp: ; Major League Baseball; Most Valuable Player

NEW YORK - The next time someone doubts him, Dustin Pedroia will have a pretty good answer. He can just hold up his AL MVP award.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• November 19, 2008

• Brewers' Braun Named Mvp -- Outfielder Was Key to Milwaukee's Surge

Baseball NEW YORK - Milwaukee's Ryan Braun won the National League Most Valuable Player Award on Tuesday after helping lead the Brewers to their first division title in nearly 30 years.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• November 23, 2011

• La. Drops Extradition Try On Mclain

DETROIT - Louisiana authorities on Monday dropped a bid to extradite former Detroit Tigers star Denny McLain, major league baseball's last 30-game winner, for trial in a dispute over a scrap metal sale. McLain won the 1968 American League Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards after winning 31 games and leading Detroit to the World Series. He had six losses that season.

• Charleston Gazette
• October 04, 2011

• Pujols to Cards: No Dealslugger Rejects Latest Extension Offer, Raising Free Agency Likelihood

JUPITER, Fla. - What St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa described Sunday as "a spectacular distraction potentially" came into sharper focus as a source familiar with negotiations confirmed first baseman Albert Pujols recently rejected the team's offer regarding a contract extension. A week after the parties were described as "nowhere close" to an agreement, it appears increasingly likely Pujols will enter camp Wednesday morning with no deal in place. If so, talks would halt because of a Feb. 15 deadline put in place by Pujols' agent, Dan Lozano. And the likelihood of the three-time National League Most Valuable Player reaching free agency after the upcoming season would increase.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• February 18, 2011

• Mvp Walking the Walk

FORT WORTH, Texas - The American League Most Valuable Player, his wife and three daughters woke Saturday morning to a new Christmas tradition. Mom and Dad were to give their girls only one gift each. They would all hop in a car and head to a homeless shelter later in the day to visit with those who would be lucky to receive anything at all.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• December 27, 2010

• Major Lrague Baseball: ; Milwaukee's Braun Wins Nl Mvp Award

NEW YORK - Milwaukee's Ryan Braun won the National League Most Valuable Player Award on Tuesday after helping lead the Brewers to their first division title in nearly 30 years. The Brewers left fielder and former West Virginia Power third baseman received 20 of 32 first-place votes and 388 points in voting announced by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• November 23, 2011

• Minoso Honored at Negro League Museum

White Sox legend [Minnie Minoso], the late Hall of Fame sportswriter Larry Whiteside, National League Most Valuable Player Jimmy Rollins of the Philadelphia Phillies and American League Most Valuable Player Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees were among those receiving Oscar Charleston Legacy Awards during ceremonies this past weekend in Kansas City, Mo. The Legacy Awards is the only baseball event of its kind that unites baseball's past and present," said Bob Kendrick of the Negro League Museum. "We believe that by honoring Major League Baseball's very best in the name of these legendary Negro Leaguers, that fans world-wide will gain a greater appreciation for just how talented the likes of Charleston and the other greats of the Negro Leagues were "As long as I'm able to talk," Mi...

• Chicago Defender
• August 22, 2009

• Best Cardinal: Stan the Man, El Hombre or Rajah?

ST. LOUIS - When the Baseball Writers Association of America announced that St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols won the National League Most Valuable Player Award last week, it wasn't a surprise. It was the second consecutive MVP honor for Pujols and third overall. The MVP hat trick pulled him alongside St. Louis baseball icon Stan Musial, the only other Cardinals player to win the award three times. Musial won in 1943, 1946 and 1948.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• November 30, 2009