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Most Valuable Player Award by The Sporting News

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Listed below in chronological order are the players / pitchers chosen by The Sporting News as recipients of their Most Valuable Player Award. The award, which originally started in 1929, was discontinued in 1945 and never resumed.

"There never was a better left fielder in hustling to the foul line to turn a double into a single." - Joe Cronin on Al Simmons

Most Valuable Player Award by The Sporting News ©
Year	Name	League	Team	Position
1929	Al Simmons	AL	Philadelphia	OF
1929	No Winner	NL	n/a	n/a
1930	Joe Cronin	AL	Washington	SS
1930	Bill Terry	NL	New York	1B
1931	Lou Gehrig	AL	New York	1B
1931	Chuck Klein	NL	Philadelphia	OF
1932	Jimmie Foxx	AL	Philadelphia	1B
1932	Chuck Klein	NL	Philadelphia	OF
1933	Jimmie Foxx	AL	Philadelphia	1B
1933	Carl Hubbell	NL	New York	P
1934	Lou Gehrig	AL	New York	1B
1934	Dizzy Dean	NL	St. Louis	P
1935	Hank Greenberg	AL	Detroit	1B
1935	Arky Vaughan	NL	Pittsburgh	SS
1936	Lou Gehrig	AL	New York	1B
1936	Carl Hubbell	NL	New York	P
1937	Charlie Gehringer	AL	Detroit	2B
1937	Joe Medwick	NL	St. Louis	OF
1938	Jimmie Foxx	AL	Boston	1B
1938	Ernie Lombardi	NL	Cincinnati	C
1939	Joe DiMaggio	AL	New York	OF
1939	Bucky Walters	NL	Cincinnati	P
1940	Hank Greenberg	AL	Detroit	OF
1940	Frank McCormick	NL	Cincinnati	1B
1941	Joe DiMaggio	AL	New York	OF
1941	Dolph Camilli	NL	Brooklyn	1B
1942	Joe Gordon	AL	New Yorn	2B
1942	Mort Cooper	NL	St. Louis	P
1943	Spud Chandler	AL	New York	P
1943	Stan Musial	NL	St. Louis	OF
1944	Bobby Doerr	AL	Boston	2B
1944	Marty Marion	NL	St. Louis	SS
1945	Eddie Mayo	AL	Detroit	2B
1945	Tommy Holmes	NL	Boston	OF
Most Valuable Player Award

Al Simmons, who won the first Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award in 1929, had a very unusual batting stance and when he was traded to the A's he worried that Connie Mack would force him to change it; however, Mack simply told him, "You can hold the bat in your teeth, provided you hit safely and often." — Simmons hit .387 that particular season.

Multiple American League winners include Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx with three while Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg won two each. In the National League no player ever won three times while Carl Hubbell and Chuck Klein were the only ones to win twice.

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