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...YORK--Second baseman Ryne Sandberg, who led the Chicago Cubs to their first championship in 39 years, was named the Most Valuable Player in the National League yesterday, gaining 22 of the 24 first-place votes cast by the Baseball Writers Association of America...
Sandberg, who also had two second-place votes, totaled 326 points in the balloting, easily outdistancing first baseman Keith Hernandez of the New York Mets, who finished with 195. Batting champion Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres was third with 184 points. Hernandez and Gwynn each had one first-place vote...
Hernandez received 16 of the 28 first-place votes and totaled 306 points in outdistancing Minnesotn first baseman Kent Hrbek, who had five first-place votes and 247 points. Hrbek batted .311 with 27 home runs and 107 runs batted in, leading the Twins into surprising pennant contention last season...
Baltimore first baseman Eddie Murray finished fourth in the balloting, receiving the other two first-place votes and 197 points...
...spectacle of a designated hitter who bats ninth (.200) is at least as funny as a cleanup batter who hits .228 (Padres Third Baseman Graig Nettles). However, on an impulse, Williams decided to upgrade Bevacqua to the sixth slot for Game 2, and his three hits included a three-run homer, just his second of the year. "I'll do anything to get in the papers," he had proved before, but never so conventionally. (Larry Herndon, the silent Tiger who had an equally telling homer the day before, does anything to stay out of them.) After blowing kisses around...