Brilliant 2nd Baseman Wins American League Honour New York, Nov. 2.
The Baseball Writers Association of America voted to-day that Charley Gehringer, brilliant second-baseman of the Detroit Tigers, was the most valuable player to his club in the American League season just finished.
Gehringer, a dazzling fielder and one of the fastest double-play pivot then in baseball, led the league in patting. In the poll, he received 78 out of a possible eighty points. In second place was Joe Dimaggio, outfielder of the New York Yankees and major league home run king, with 74 points, followed by Hank Greenberg, Tigers' first baseman, with 48, and Lou Gehrig, Yankees' first basemans with 42 points—United Press.
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