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Boston Red Sox first baseman Mo Vaughn edged Cleveland's Albert Belle to take the American League's Most Valuable Player Award in a vote that may have been determined as much by personality as statistics. Although Belle arguably had the better stats, hitting .317 with 50 home runs to Vaughn's .300 and 39, Belle's reputation as being surly to reporters may have cost him when the reporters did the voting. The voters may also have been swayed by the fact that Belle was just one of many sluggers on a powerful Indians team, while Vaughn...
There were other nice stories in baseball this year: the arrival from Japan of Nomo, the revival of the franchise in Seattle, the retiring of the Detroit Tigers' longtime double-play combination of Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell. The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs, who between them have 164 years without a world championship, teased their fans for a while. Even the death of Mantle in August had a sweetness to it, as people called him up to mind the way the Yankees called...
...Here in Boston, when the Celtics are playing, you don't leave at half-time," he said. "And when the Red Sox are playing you don't leave after the fifth inning...
...Albert Belle and Tony Pena, with two swings of their bats, brought the Curse of the Bambino crashing down on Fenway. And by the end of the series the Red Sox had another number to haunt them at night--13--thirteen straight post-season losses, dating back to games six and seven of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets...
...other American League series, the Red Sox had the imagination of Beantown fans running wild in the first game, taking an 11th inning lead against the heavily favored Indians...