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From: pete@umcp-cs.UUCP (Pete Cottrell)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: AL MVP - Its Gotta Be...
Message-ID: <1910@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 03:07:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 03:07:39 1985
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Reply-To: pete@maryland.UUCP (Pete Cottrell)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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>In article <4500060@hpmtla.UUCP> roy@hpmtla.UUCP (roy) writes:
>>>   Carlton won the MVP
>>> when he won 27 for the lowly Phils in the early 70s.  
>>
>>How many games did the Phils win that year, and which year was it?
>>It seems to me they lost in excess of 100. 
>
>It was 1972, and the Phillies won 59 games.  Carlton did NOT win the
>MVP that year, just the Cy Young.  He won 15 straight at one point, until
>beaten by Phil Niekro and the Braves.
>
>I believe (someone check this!) that Johnny Bench won the MVP that year, 
>as well as in 1970.

Johnny Bench was indeed the MVP for both 1970 and 1972.


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