Baseball's most baffling MVP ballots / Jeremy Lehrman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehrman, Jeremy, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Most Valuable Player Award (Baseball)--History.

Most Valuable Player Award (Baseball).

Baseball--United States--Statistics.

Baseball.

Baseball players--Rating of.

Baseball players.

Baseball--Statistics.

Statistics.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Baseball's most baffling Most Valuable Player [Award] ballots

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]

Summary:

"Examining the most controversial ballots, this book attempts to settle some arguments and answer some compelling questions: Which of the so-called "worst MVPs" holds up to modern statistical analysis? Who cast the single worst vote in MVP history? Does racial bias influence the vote? Who really deserved the award in a given year?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 A Firm Believer in Advertising: The History of the MVP Award 7

2 The Crab Performs Miracles in Boston 16

3 Establishing a Pecking Order 24

4 Out by a Mile 35

5 Revisionist History 101 50

6 Black Mike and the Triple Crown 74

7 The Octopus 84

8 Sticking It to the Splinter: Most Career MVP Snubs 94

9 The Gym Teacher Who Came in from the Cold 103

10 Curiouser and Curiouser 107

11 "What are we going to do? Break it in half?" 119

12 MVP Mosts (and Leasts) 124

13 A Certain Kind of Logic 130

14 Out of Character: MVP Flukes 141

15 Meet the Mets, Greet the ... Team That Has Never Had an MVP 150

16 The Greatest Season That Never Was 158

17 Never Mind, Juan Gone-It's the 90s 164

18 Are MVP Voters Racist? 173

19 Fun with Arbitrary Endpoints: MVPs of the Decade 180

20 The Wonderful Argument 191

21 The Last Worst MVP: The Future of the Award 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476666754

147666675X

OCLC:

958497988