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Awards
TSN Most Valuable Players Winners
By Patrick Mondout
The Sporting News announced League Most Valuable Player awards
following each season from 1930-1945. As they developed separate Pitcher
of the Year and Player of the Awards, they perhaps felt the award was
redundant by the end of World War II.
Al
Simmons is sometimes listed as the NL winner of the award for 1929,
but TSN simply asked the same beat writers who voted for the discontinued League
MVP awards who they would have voted for. Here are the actual winners:
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