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...While big-league baseball was reorganizing its rosters, baseball writers were riffling through their memories and replaying the past. Most Valuable Player in the National League, they decided, was Milwaukee Outfielder Hank Aaron. But the vote was as close as the pennant race, and St. Louis' First Baseman Stan Musial, National League batting champion (for the seventh time), finished only 9 points back. Most Valuable Player in the American League: the New York Yankees' bad-legged Outfielder Mickey Mantle (batting average for the season: .365), who limped in 26 points ahead of Boston's Ted Williams...
...brilliant southpass, whose 21 victories were a prime factor in Milwaukee's first National League pennant, received all but one of the votes of the 16-man panel of baseball writers who participated in the annual poll. The other vote went to Dick Donovan, of Quincy, Mass., the Chicago White Sox' big righthander...
...Most Valuable Player Award is often and rightly awarded to a player on the pennant winning team. However, the Yankees had such a huge lead that they could have won the pennant without Mantle; the Red Sox could certainly not have finished anywhere near third without the services of Thumping Theodore...
...with the ice-blue eyes who had come up through their farm system only to fail as a Yankee starter in 1950. The next year they had been only too happy to toss Burdette into a $50,000 deal to get Pitcher Johnny Sain from the Braves as pennant insurance...
...never really found himself until he was sent to the Braves. Pennant-hungry Milwaukee brought out the mean-spirited competitor in him, and he delighted in the sight of an opposing batter sprawling to escape his head-high fast ball. The measure of his success is the list of angry complaints that have scampered across four years of sports pages. Some of his National League opponents insisted-and still do-that he uses the outlawed spitball. "He breaks every rule in the book,'' maintains Cincinnati Manager Birdie Tebbetts. "The umpires tell me it doesn't matter...