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This day in baseball: Mr. Cub is MVP again

Posted: November 4, 2019 | Author: | Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: , , , , , , , |Leave a comment

Ernie Banks won his second consecutive MVP award on November 4, 1959.  Mr. Cub finished the season with a .304 batting average and 143 RBIs, including 45 home runs.  Banks collected ten of the writers’ 21 first-place votes, with Eddie Mathews (5) and Hank Aaron (2) of the Braves and Dodger Wally Moon (4) dividing the rest of the first-place votes.

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