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National League MVP--This is pretty easy. Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa hit .308 with 66 home runs, 158 RBI, 134 runs, and 18 stolen bases. His team also went 90-73 and made the playoffs...
American League MVP--Unlike in the NL, there are a lot of players who could compete for this. The New York Yankees, the best team in baseball, don't have a single superstar to reward, so you have to look elsewhere...
...most home runs of any other major leaguer, except Mark McGwire (he had 63 to McGwire's 64 at week's end), has ever hit, Sosa has had one of the best offensive years of any other player, any other time. Most sportswriters think that he'll swipe the MVP award from McGwire and that he is starting to cut into his fan base. Give credit to the barrage of four homers in three days that broke Roger Maris' 37-year-old single-season home-run record, just five days after McGwire. And he has made it all such...
...sure, he has had moments where he shone far more brightly than most ever have. Rookie of the Year in 1982. MVP and World Series Champion in 1983. And when criticism mounted after his numbers began to decline in the eighties, he won another MVP...
CYNTHIA COOPER It's a repeat MVP, playoff MVP and championship ring for the WNBA's first great star...