Ted Williams is said to lose an MVP award for a Boston voter left him off the ballot

Ted Williams is said to lose an MVP award for a Boston voter left him off the ballot

In the career of the player in ted williams jersey, he had several chanced to win the AL MVP. However, he lost them again and again. It is said that he lost our on the 1947 AL MVP because a voter from Boston left him off of the 10-person ballot entirely, according to one the player who is famous for his outstanding performance in cal ripken jersey.

With the Major League Baseball season coming to a close, thoughts of players in montreal expos jerseys begin to turn to who will win the major individual player awards in each league like the Cy Young, the Rookie of the Year and, most importantly, the Most Valuable Player Award, the player in david ortiz jersey said. Ted Williams, Fame Hall of Fame hitter of the Boston Red Sox, won a pair of American League MVPs during his career. However, one league officer, who got one jacoby ellsbury jersey as birthday gift, said that Williams id perhaps t\more famous for the MVPs he did not win. It is said that in the year of 1941, Williams hit .406, the last person to hit over .400 in a season. However, Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees, who is the ideal of the player in john lackey jersey, had his 56-game hitting streak that season and the Yankees won the American League pennant, so DiMaggio won the MVP.

In the following year, Williams won the Triple Crown in the American League (leading the league in home runs, runs batted in and batting average), but the voters, fans of the player in kevin youkilis jersey, went with Joe Gordon of the Yankees, who once again had won the AL Pennant. In the year of 1947, Ted Williams once again won the Triple Crown in the American League, but he still managed to lose the closest MVP race in the history of Major League Baseball. It is said to be unequal by the player in dustin pedroia jersey. However, it did happen again and again. This time, he came short by a single point to the eventual winner, Joe DiMaggio's, 202-201. As a result, the player in carlton fisk jersey said that was really pity for Williams.

Williams' poor showings in the MVP voting has often been attributed to his poor relationship with the media (who vote for the award), according to one reporter who is said to be on good terms with the player in carl yastrzemski jersey. Williams had been left off the ballot completely by Boston sportswriter Melville Webb and that had Webb simply given Williams a 10th place vote, Williams would have won the award, according to one MLB officer who is said to be step-father of the player in jonathan papelbon jersey. This story has become part of baseball history.

However, Williams got other honor again and again and he was respected by baseball fans greatly. The player in jason bay jersey said that Ted Williams would be the legend in MLB all the time. I wonder, what would happen if Ted Williams won the AL MVP?