The Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual

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(MLB) award that is presented to the most outstanding player in each year's

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. Awarded each season since 1962 (two games were held and an award was presented to each game winner in 1962), it was originally called the Arch Ward Memorial Award in honor of

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, who conceived of the All-Star Game in 1933. The award's name was changed to the Commissioner's Trophy in 1970, but this name change was reversed in 1985 when the

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Trophy was renamed the Commissioner's Trophy. Finally, the trophy was renamed the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award in 2002, honoring former

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player

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, who died earlier that year. No award was presented for the 2002 All-Star Game, which ended in a tie. Thus, the

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was the first recipient of the re-named Ted Williams Award in

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. The award winner receives a glass bad engraved with their name and, due to an advertising agreement, a

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car or truck. Currently, the winner is chosen based on a vote, with 80 percent coming from

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and broadcasters on-site at the game and 20 percent from an online fan vote. , NL players have won the award 28 times (including one award shared by two players), and

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(AL) players have won 34 times.

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players have won the most awards for a single franchise (with six); players from the

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and

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are tied for the most in the NL with five each. Five players have won the award twice:

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1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

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(

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

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(

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

Cal Ripken Jr. Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr. (born August 24, 1960), nicknamed "the Iron Man", is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played his entire 21-season career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1981–2001). ...

(

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

), and

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, the only player to win the award in back-to-back years). The award has been shared by multiple players once; Bill Madlock and

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shared the award in

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

. Two players have won the award for a game in which their league lost:

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1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

and

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1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...

. One pair of awardees were father and son ( Ken Griffey Sr. and

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),Ken Griffey
" and and another were brothers (

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and

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).Roberto Alomar
" and Three players have won the MVP award at a game played in their home ballpark (Sandy Alomar Jr. in

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, and

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is the only player to win the All-Star Game MVP and

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in the same season, doing so in 2000. Among MVP winners who are no longer active players, only five won the award in what turned out to be their only All-Star Game appearance;

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, J. D. Drew,

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, and

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. Five teams, the

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, and

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(excluding their predecessor, the

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) have never had a player win the award.

List of winners

Notes

References

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Awards established in 1962

List of winners

See also

Notes

References