Show U f I 1 t 1 1 Greenberg Gets Most Valuable Player By GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK Nov 6 UP UP- UP The baseball writers today confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed what everyone in the trade already recognized as known fact that fact that Hank Greenberg Greenberg Greenberg Green- Green berg was the guy who made the Detroit Tigers go Greenberg who risked his career by shifting from first case base to left field for fox the good goodof of the Tigers was named the most valuable player in the American league f for or the second time by a c committee of 24 baseball baseball baseball base base- ball writers three from each of the eight cities in the circuit Driving in runs and cracking cracking cracking crack crack- ing out 41 home runs Greenberg Greenberg Greenberg Green- Green berg led the league in both those departments He batted highest mark of his ca ca- ca reer The big big- Tiger slugger who first won won the most valuable player award in 1935 repeated 1 this year with points Bob Feller who won 27 games for forthe forthe forthe the Cleveland Indians was second second sec see ond with points Joe DiMaggio DiMaggio DiMaggio Di- Di Maggio Yankee center fielder who won the award in 1939 was third with p points ints Buck Newsom Tigers' Tigers pitching ace who won 21 games came fourth with points nosing out Lou Boudreau Cleveland's brilliant young shortstop by one point Greenberg received 16 first place votes seven seconds and andone andone andone one sixth Feller was named first six times and received 12 seconds one third one fourth two fifths and one eighth New- New spill and Boudreau also received I Ione one first place vote each Anyone who would have predicted predicted predicted pre pre- last winter that Greenberg Greenberg Greenberg Green Green- berg would be crowned the most valuable player in his league at the end of the 1940 season would have been ridi- ridi Bob Feller J. J DiMaggio Place Second Third as wacky Things were far from bright for the tall lanky Bronx boy when the Tigers' Tigers front office called him to Detroit for a chat The Detroit Detroit Detroit De De- De- De troit officials offered Greenberg Greenberg Greenberg Green Green- berg his choice of taking a sharp salary slash or shifting from first base to the outfield in order to make a place for forthe forthe forthe the misfit Rudy York Tough Decision After playing first base for or seven years and establishing himself as a star at that position position position tion Greenberg had a tough decision to make York had failed as an outfielder a third baseman and a catcher and it was either one of two things play him at first or trade him Greenberg agreed to make the switch and no player in Florida worked longer or more earnestly earnestly earnestly earn earn- I estly than did Hank to learn how to play his new position He not only developed himself into a good outfielder but he did so without allowing his batting to suffer The only kick Greenberg has over the shift is the fact that he gets lonesome out In the out out- field After b being ing in the middIe middle middle mid mid- dle dIe of all those conferences for seven years Hank says I kind of wish I could be back up there hearing what the shortstops shortstop's shortstops shortstop's shortstops shortstop's short short- stops stop's saying to te the pitcher and what the catcher is telling the I third baseman Complete Voting The votes were counted on the basis of 14 H points for each first place nine points for each second eight for e each ch third and so on down the line The complete complete com corn list follows 1 I Hank Greenberg Tigers 2 Bob Bob Feller Indians 3 Joe Joe- DiMaggio DiMaggio DiMaggio Di- Di Maggio Yankees 4 Buck Newsom Tigers 5 Lou Boudreau Indians 6 Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my Foxx Red Sox 7 Schoolboy Rowe Tigers 62 8 Rudy York Tigers 61 9 Rip Radcliff Browns 55 1 10 Luke Appling White Sox 54 11 Weatherly Indians 34 Vi 12 D Bartell Tigers TIgerS' 26 i 13 Kuhel White Sox L J 18 13 ti tied d I j fourteenth Sid Hudson S c tors and Ted Williams Willians Sox each with 16 points points' R POints Barney McCosky Tiger i 17 Ernie Bonham Yanke 18 Walter Judnich h Brow 19 John Babich Athletics tied for twentieth th Mike Tr Ira White S Sox x Frank Ha Hayes and Ray Mack I t diar At each with 4 points tied I twenty-third twenty Joe Gordon Y Val kees Cecil Travis Senat Seia Senator Bob Kennedy White Sox SOT Charlie Gehringer Gehring r Tigers at with 3 points points' tied bed for seventh Rollie Rollie RoUie Hemsley j and Ted Lyons Lyon w Sox each with 2 points to tiE for twenty-ninth twenty Lou F Finn Red Sox and Elden Auker ea eat with 1 point j I |