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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.
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The comparisons are inevitable for anyone who plays in goal for the Milwaukee Wave. The shadow of legendary keeper Victor Nogueira, who won two league most valuable player awards in 11 remarkable seasons in Milwaukee, is always hanging around.
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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...
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The McKean family from Northwestern will need an addition to the trophy case as Brennan and Megan both picked up Most Valuable Player Awards for the Wayne County Athletic League basketball season. Brennan helped the Northwestern boys to a 12-2 league record and a share of the conference crown with Hillsdale. Megan and the Northwestern girls team finished tied with Smithville at 13-1 in the league.
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Just like all those wins, the NFL awards keep rolling in for Tom Brady. The league's Most Valuable Player added The Associated Press 2007 Offensive Player of the Year honors to his collection Tuesday, easily outdistancing his main weapon on the unbeaten New England Patriots, Randy Moss.
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By leading the American League in almost every important offensive category - home runs, runs batted in, runs, total bases, slugging, OPS (on-base plus slugging) - New York's Alex Rodriguez appears to be putting a stranglehold on the circuit's most valuable player award. But, what about the National League MVP? Could it be possible that both awards will go to New York players?
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MILWAUKEE (AP) - It only took Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost a few moments to remember a closer as dominant as Francisco Cordero has been this season. Rollie was pretty good in'81," Yost said of his former Brewers teammate, Rollie Fingers, who became the first reliever in major- league history to win the AL Most Valuable Player and Cy Young Awards in the same season.
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Anybody who saw Ryan Howard play baseball in Evansville shouldn't be surprised that he became a major leaguer -- or even that he's won the National League Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards in his first two seasons. He was scary," said Ryan Miller, the former University of Evansville pitcher.
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A report by former Sen. George Mitchell, which he is set to release today at a 2 p.m. news conference, exposes a "serious drug culture within baseball, from top to bottom," points to MVPs and All- Stars, and calls for beefed-up testing by an outside agency . At least 60 current and former players, including past winners of the league's Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards, are expected to be implicated.
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