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Willie Stargell was named MLB MVP, LCS MVP, and World Series MVP in 1979. Six pitchers have won the Cy Young Award and the World Series MVP in the same season: Bob Turley (1958), Whitey Ford (1961), Koufax (1963, 1965), Bret Saberhagen (1985), Orel Hershiser (1988), and Johnson (2001). The Cy Young Award was initiated in 1956, as one award for ...
1998 – Commissioner's Trophy (World Series) 1998 – Baseball America Organization of the Year [7] 1999 – Commissioner's Trophy (World Series) 1999 (1998 New York Yankees) – Outstanding Team ESPY Award; 1999 – Sporting News Sportsman of the Year; 1999 (1927 Yankees) – "ESPN" Number 1 greatest sports team (in 20th century, of the 4 ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
It was officially called the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award until 2020, following complaints from past MVP winners about Landis's role in stonewalling racial integration. [20] The most recent award winners are Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees in the American League and Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National ...
This World Series was the start of the 'Will Smith' World Series victory streak. From 2020-2024, either catcher Will Smith or relief pitcher Will Smith won the World Series. Pitcher Will Smith won in 2021, 2022, 2023 (all with three separate teams), while catcher Will Smith would win in 2020 and 2024. [101]
Since the creation of the Cy Young Award in 1956, he is the only pitcher to win an MVP award without winning a Cy Young in the same year (Don Newcombe, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Willie Hernández, Roger Clemens, Dennis Eckersley, Justin Verlander, and Clayton Kershaw all won a Cy Young award in their MVP ...
The Yankees lost the 1957 World Series to the Milwaukee Braves when Lew Burdette won three games for the Braves and was awarded World Series MVP. [136] [137] Following the Series, the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers both left for San Francisco and Los Angeles, respectively. [138] This left the Yankees as New York's only baseball team.
From 1903 to 2024, the franchise has won more than 10,000 games and 27 World Series championships. [2] The list below documents players and teams that hold particular club records. Outfielder Babe Ruth holds the most franchise records, with 16, including career home runs , and career and single-season batting average and on-base percentage .