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...becoming the first starting pitcher in 15 years to earn the award, the 24-year-old right-hander captured 19 of 28 first-place votes for 339 points. He easily outdistanced Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly and Sox outfielder Jim Rice in the balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roger Clemens Named MVP | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

...thought I did have a pretty good chance even though I was a starting pitcher," said Clemens from his home in Katy, Tex. He conceded, though, that the news still was a bit of a shock. "I guess I did put an exclamation mark in all those writers' minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roger Clemens Named MVP | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

Only seven other major-league pitchers have won the MVP award since the Cy Young Award for outstanding pitcher was instituted in 1956. Two of those seven were relief pitchers. The last starter to take both awards was Vida Blue of the Oakland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roger Clemens Named MVP | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

...first pitcher ever to do strike out 20 in a nine-inning game, and he did so in only his 40th major league peformance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unanimous: Clemens Cops Cy Young | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

...really a nostalgic person at heart," Johnson said two days later, after Lee Mazzilli's pinch hit for Pitcher Sid Fernandez started to restore the manager's public brilliance. "Mazzilli was a hero here in New York before he was shipped to no-man's-land -- Pittsburgh and Texas. I like to see guys come back and be stars again." Tom Seaver, the ultimate Mets' star, sat out the series in the Boston clubhouse. Now and then, in the quiet time after games, Seaver leaned back on a locker and raised a sheet of X rays to the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Only So Much Excitement | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

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