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Babe Ruth Award | |
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![]() The 1958 Babe Ruth Award, won by Elston Howard | |
Description | Most Valuable Player of the Major League Baseball postseason |
Presented by | New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America |
First awarded | 1949 |
Currently held by | David Freese, 2011 St. Louis Cardinals |
The Babe Ruth Award is given annually to the Major League Baseball (MLB) player with the best performance in the postseason. The award, created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) in honor of Babe Ruth, was first awarded in 1949 to the MVP of the World Series, one year after Ruth's death. The award continued to be awarded exclusively for performances in the World Series until 2007, when the New York chapter of the BBWAA changed the award to cover the entire postseason.[1][2] Though it precedes the World Series Most Valuable Player Award, which was not created until 1955, the Babe Ruth Award is considered less prestigious, as it is not sanctioned by MLB and is awarded several weeks after the World Series.[2][3][4]
MLB expanded its postseason to include the League Championship Series (LCS) in 1969 and the League Division Series (LDS) in 1995. The LDS follows a best-of-five playoff format, while the LCS and World Series follow a best-of-seven playoff format.[4][5] The most recent World Series champions are the St. Louis Cardinals, who won in 2011. David Freese, the most recent recipient of the Babe Ruth Award, also won the NLCS and World Series MVP awards in 2011.[6]
Ruth was a noted slugger who batted .326 with 15 home runs and three wins in three games started as a pitcher during World Series play.[7] However, the Babe Ruth Award does not only go to sluggers or pitchers. Dick Green won the award for the 1974 World Series, in which he batted 0-for-13, but helped the Oakland Athletics win the series with his defense.[8][9]
Joe Page of the New York Yankees was the first winner of the Babe Ruth Award. In all, members of the Yankees have won the award sixteen times. Luis Tiant is the only winner of the Babe Ruth Award to play for the World Series-losing team. Two players, Sandy Koufax and Jack Morris, have won the award twice.[10]
Key
Year | Links to the article about that corresponding World Seriesnsass |
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Player (X) | Denotes winning player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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Indicates multiple award winners in the same year |
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Indicates player did not win the World Series Most Valuable Player Award (1955–present)[11] |
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Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame |
* | Denotes player who is still active |
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Indicates losing team in the series |
Winners
![A black-and-white picture of Sandy Koufax smiling in a Los Angeles Dodgers uniform.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Sandy_Koufax.jpg/180px-Sandy_Koufax.jpg)
![A side-view of Reggie Jackson wearing sunglasses.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Reggie_Jackson_at_Dodger_Stadium_2010.jpg/180px-Reggie_Jackson_at_Dodger_Stadium_2010.jpg)
![Orel Hershiser, with the Los Angeles Dodgers, in the middle of his pitching delivery](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Orel_Hershiser_1993.jpg/180px-Orel_Hershiser_1993.jpg)
![Derek Jeter and Dave Winfield standing together in a dugout.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Derek_Jeter_and_Dave_Winfield.jpg/180px-Derek_Jeter_and_Dave_Winfield.jpg)
![Paul Molitor in a Twins uniform, holding his cap.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Paul_Molitor_white_house.jpg/180px-Paul_Molitor_white_house.jpg)
![Cole Hamels standing on a pitchers mound, preparing to throw a pitch.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Cole_Hamels_pitching_2010.jpg/180px-Cole_Hamels_pitching_2010.jpg)
See also
Notes
- ^ For 1949–2006, statistics are for the World Series only. As the award was changed in 2007 to encompass the entire postseason, statistics from 2007 through the present represent the entire postseason.
References
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- ^ a b c "Rodriguez chokes up during speech". ESPN.com. ESPN. Associated Press. January 24, 2010. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
- ^ Purdy, Dennis (2006). The Team-By-Team Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball. Workman Publishing. p. xv. ISBN 0761139435.
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- ^ a b Goold, Derrick (November 7, 2011). "Freese to receive Babe Ruth Award as postseason MVP". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved November 8, 2011.
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