¶ For the third time in his eight-year major-league career as a Brooklyn Dodger, Catcher Roy Campanella was elected Most Valuable Player in the National League. (Campy's other awards were in 1951 and '53.) Only other three-time winner in the National League: the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial (1943, '46, '48). ¶ Statisticians finally finished wading through the columns of figures they kept so carefully all during baseball season, computed the averages and named the Philadelphia Phillies' Center Fielder Richie Ashburn National League batting champion. Ashburn's average: .338. Other National League championships:...
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