Show X f C waner most valuable player I 1 I 1 N t tpaul A L WANER who was elect elected ed the most valuable player in the 5 r national U nal league in 1927 by a committee of baseball writers received f ibis pot of gold and the national league bronze medal before a large crowd at the ritts pittsburgh burgh grounds the other day I 1 C 5 waner had bad an n amazing baseball record behind the winning of Q it ai this valuable player medal and js prize it was his second year in they the 4 y big leagues and he led that league batted in the coast league in p V as batsman without a rival ba ing 1923 he be batted and won his big I 1 H a batting percentage of league trial in 1920 1926 y hornsby his closest contender playing his first year I 1 pt batted waner waller played in for the pirates he bat games missing only one C contest lie ile led his bis league in e wits hits with led I 1 e d in made 41 two bag j gers and led his that year by bressler league in three bag hargraves and christensen and of the reds by 3 gers gera with 13 18 scored runs williams of the phillies earl smith of the pirates t paul was pitchy and stephenson Step benson of er tor for his high fi t school nine at oklay the cubs but none of homa city at the these played in as many 4 I 1 M t age of 0 fourteen as a games waner A Z years at sixteen played in games that v the oklahoma city year and had some tech western league club claim to the bat q i wanted to sign him ting title his very first H but ills his fattier father in paul waner big league year but it y that he attend the state pretty generally decided among mal after three years of school men following the sport clos closely ely A he left in 1021 1921 to pitch tor for the that hargraves of the reds who farisco fF frisco risco club ne he was then nineteen played la in games and batted ayears 5 years old A sore arm ruined his was the champion paul con V pitching career at its very begin finues his great batting stride this t i in he got his chance year although not yet quite up to y X to play regular in the outfield and the highmark high mark he attained tasty last year ear j A 4 |