 Johnny Podres, inaugural winner in 1955 for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |
| Sport | Baseball |
|---|---|
| League | Major League Baseball |
| Awarded for | Annual most valuable player of the World Series |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Presented by | Major League Baseball (since 1985) |
| History | |
| First award | 1955 |
| Most recent | Freddie Freeman (Los Angeles Dodgers) |
The Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is given to the Major League Baseball (MLB) player deemed to have the most impact on his team's performance in the World Series,[1] which is the final round of the MLB postseason. The award was first presented in 1955 by Sport magazine,[2] but since 1985 has been officially presented by MLB.[3] The winner is determined during the final game of the World Series by a committee of reporters and officials present at the game.
On September 29, 2017, the award was renamed in honor of Willie Mays in remembrance of the 63rd anniversary of The Catch, which occurred the year before the award's debut;[4] Mays never won the award himself.
- ^ Rand, Michael (September 3, 2009). "Thursday (Derek Jeter over Joe Mauer for MVP?) edition: Wha' Happened?". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Retrieved September 12, 2009.
- ^ Dickson, Paul (2011). The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. p. 945. ISBN 9780393073492. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
The SPORT Magazine Award, an annual award presented since 1955, originally by SPORT magazine in cooperation with the Chevrolet Motor Co. (the magazine ceased publication in 2000 and is no longer involved with the award).
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saberhagenwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Adler, David (September 29, 2017). "World Series MVP Award renamed for Mays". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Archived from the original on October 1, 2017. Retrieved September 30, 2017 – via Wayback Machine.