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Nineteen players have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame—Robinson, seven AL players, and eleven others from the NL. The award has been shared twice: once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the NL in 1976; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the AL in 1979. Members of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers have won ...
Ray Culp (Philadelphia NL, P) Pete Rose (Cincinnati NL, 2B) 1964. Wally Bunker (Baltimore AL, P) Tony Oliva (Minnesota AL, OF) Billy McCool (Cincinnati NL, P) Dick Allen (Philadelphia NL, 3B) 1965. Marcelino López (California AL, P) Curt Blefary (Baltimore AL, OF) Frank Linzy (San Francisco NL, P) Joe Morgan (Houston NL, 2B) 1966. Jim Nash ...
The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL). The award was introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford C. Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.
Hall of Famer Frank Robinson is the first player to win the award in both leagues (NL in 1961 and AL in 1966). Barry Bonds' seven MVPs are the most for any individual player. Alex Rodriguez won the award with two different teams at two different positions.
The National League president was the chief executive of the National League of professional baseball until 1999, when the NL and the American League merged into Major League Baseball. [ 1 ] National League presidents
The NL first awarded the honor during the 1958 season, when league president Warren Giles conducted a poll of media members covering the then-eight NL teams and awarded winners an engraved desk set. [1] [a] The AL did not issue its own award until 1974. The NL created a Pitcher of the Month Award in 1975 and the AL did likewise in 1979.
Brooks Robinson won 16 Gold Gloves, leading all third basemen, and is tied for the second-highest win total in the history of the award. The Gold Glove Award is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), as voted by the ...
In 1957 he saved 10 games for the first time, finishing fifth in the NL, and started his last game. [8] In 1958 the team finished in second place, the first time in his five years they had placed better than seventh. [10] Face led the NL with 20 saves, [7] and posted his best earned run average to date with a 2.89 mark, finishing 17th in NL MVP ...