Bert Blyleven Awards

What awards did Bert Blyleven win? This page lists every known baseball award won by Bert Blyleven in chronological order. Click the award name and up comes a comprehensive history of that award along with every winner of that particular baseball award.
"When I started to throw the ball back to the pitcher harder than he was throwing to me, we changed positions." - Bert Blyleven (on switching from catcher to pitcher) in The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations (Wayne Stewart / Roger Kahn, Skyhorse Publishing, October 2007, Page 277)

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Bert Blyleven

Bert Blyleven Autograph on a 1986 Topps (#445)

Bert Blyleven Autograph on a 1986 Topps (#445)
 

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Birth Name:   Rik Aalbert Blijleven
Nickname:   Bert or The Dutchman or The Minnesota Gopher
Born On:   04-06-1951  (Aries)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Zeist, Netherlands
Year of Death Data Died On:   Still Living
Place of Death Data Died In:   Still Living
Cemetery:   n/a
High School:   Santiago High School (Garden Grove, CA)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-03   Player Weight Chart Weight:   207
First Game:   06-05-1970 (Age 19)
Last Game:   10-04-1992
Draft:   1969 : 3rd Round (55th)
Bert Blyleven

Awards
1970 Sporting News Rookie Pitcher of the Year Award
1984 Cleveland Indians Man of the Year Award
1989 Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award
2009 All Metrodome Team
2011 National Baseball Hall of Fame




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