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2008 As a result of being the top finishers among approximately 30,000 contestants in an Indian reality TV show called the "Million Dollar Arm," Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel sign free-agent deals to pitch for the Pirates, becoming the first players from India to sign a contract with a major league organization. The pair of 20-year-old cricket players, who have never have thrown a baseball until earlier this year, will have a Disney movie made about their experience.

2009 Albert Pujols (.327, 47, 135), the writers' unanimous choice, wins his third National League MVP award, copping the honor for the second consecutive year. The Cardinals' first baseman joins Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Mike Schmidt, and Barry Bonds, who won the award seven times, becoming the Senior Circuit's fifth player selected three times as the recipient of the prestigious prize.

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2010 The commissioner's office announces Vladimir Guerrero has won the Edgar Martinez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award. The Rangers' DH, who hit .306, with 25 homers, along with 106 RBI for the American League Champions, beat out Boston's David Ortiz and Minnesota's Jim Thome for the honor.

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2010 After designating him for assignment last week, the Pirates trade left-hander Zach Duke to the Diamondbacks for a player to be named later, right-hander Cesar Valdez. Beginning with an 8-2 mark, the 27-year-old southpaw has compiled a 37-68 record since his impressive debut with the Bucs in 2005.

2015 Hall of Famers Yogi Berra and Willie Mays become the 10th and 11th major leaguers to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Barack Obama honored the baseball icons in a White House ceremony, praising the recently deceased Yankee catcher and the Giants superstar outfielder for inspiring generations of Americans.

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On November 24 in Baseball History...

• • 1953 - The Dodgers sign the relatively unknown Walter Alston to a one-year pact as their manager for 1954.
    
  • 1964 - Third baseman Ken Boyer of the Cardinals is voted National League Most Valuable Player, with 243 votes to 187 for Philadelphia outfielder Johnny Callison.
    
  • 1971 - Catcher-infielder Earl Williams, with 33 home runs and 87 RBI for the Braves, wins the National League Rookie of the Year honors. Williams gets 18 of 24 votes, with the others going to Willie Montanez of the Phillies.
    
  • 1976 - Joe Morgan outpoints Reds teammate George Foster to win his second straight National League Most Valuable Player Award. Morgan led with a .576 slugging average, and hit.320, scored 113 runs, knocked in 111, and stole 60 bases.
    
  • 1982 - Cal Ripken, Jr., who hit .264 with 28 home runs as a shortstop and third baseman for the Orioles, is named American League Rookie of the Year.
    
  • 1986 - Cardinals reliever Todd Worrell, who led the National League with 36 saves, is named National League Rookie of the Year. Worrell had helped St. Louis to the 1985 World Series as a late-season call-up but was still a rookie the next season as defined by the BBWAA.
    
  • 1997 - Tim Johnson is hired as manager of the Blue Jays. He succeeds Cito Gaston, who was fired in September after having led the Blue Jays to World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. Johnson, a former bench coach with the Expos and Red Sox, managed the Iowa Cubs of the Triple-A American Association in 1997 and beat out three others for the job: Buck Martinez, Larry Bowa, and American League Manager-of-the-Year Davey Johnson, who interviewed in Toronto after leaving the Orioles.
    

Baseball Birthdays on November 24...

• • 1855 - Knight, George
  • 1857 - Smith, Frank
  • 1858 - Alexander, Nin
  • 1872 - Chapman, Fred
  • 1873 - Doheny, Ed
  • 1876 - Bailey, Harvey
  • 1878 - Smith, Fred
  • 1881 - Noonan, Pete
  • 1888 - Miller, Ed
  • 1889 - Burns, George
  • 1890 - Comstock, Ralph
  • 1890 - Wolfe, Harry
  • 1902 - Mattox, Cloy
  • 1904 - Rogell, Billy
  • 1909 - Winsett, Tom
  • 1911 - Medwick, Joe
  • 1912 - Giuliani, Tony
  • 1913 - Wilson, Walter
  • 1915 - West, Dick
  • 1919 - Reyes, Nap
  • 1930 - Friend, Bob
  • 1931 - Phillips, Dick
  • 1939 - Northrup, Jim
  • 1942 - Beene, Fred
  • 1943 - Harris, Billy
  • 1948 - Yeager, Steve
  • 1950 - Throop, George
  • 1950 - Balaz, John
  • 1955 - Santo Domingo, Rafael
  • 1959 - Dunbar, Tom
  • 1962 - Velarde, Randy
  • 1964 - Malloy, Bob
  • 1965 - Plympton, Jeff
  • 1967 - McDonald, Ben
  • 1967 - Martin, Al
  • 1967 - Eldred, Cal
  • 1968 - Hansen, Dave
  • 1968 - Mintz, Steve
  • 1970 - Jacome, Jason
  • 1976 - Moss, Damian

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Joe DiMaggio (1914-1999)Hall of Fame center fielder (13 × MLB All-Star; 9 x World Series; 3 x AL MVP; MLB record 56-game hitting streak; NY Yankees), born in Martinez, California


1951 Bucky Dent, all star shortstop (Chicago White Sox, NY Yankees)


1966 Mark Whiten, American MLB baseball outfielder (4 home runs in one game 1993; St. Louis Cardinals), born in Pensacola, Florida, Player Pensacola State College

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1930 The Sporting News selects Giants' first baseman Bill Terry (.401, 14, 117) as the NL's Most Valuable Player, and Senator shortstop Joe Cronin (.346, 13, 126) receives the American League honor. The Associated Press also names Joe Cronin as its unofficial AL MVP, with the BBWAA choosing Hack Wilson, who gets a $1000 bonus from the Cubs for receiving the award, as its Senior Circuit honor.

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1941 The Indians name Lou Boudreau, with only three years of major league experience, the team's new manager, replacing Roger Peckinpaugh, who moves up to the front office. The 24-year-old shortstop is the youngest skipper of this century but is a year older than Jim McCormick, a right-handed pitcher who managed the Cleveland Blues in 1879 at the age of 23.

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1944 At Chicago's St. Luke's Hospital, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's only commissioner, dies surrounded by family five days after his 78th birthday. After the former federal judge served in the national pastime's top post for 24 years, the owners renewed his contract on November 17th for another seven-year term.

1949 The BBWAA selects Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams (.343, 43, 159), the American League MVP. The 'Splendid Splinter,' who barely lost the Triple Crown when his batting average was .0002 below that of Tiger third baseman George Kell, wins the award with an overwhelming margin, easily outpointing runners-up Phil Rizzuto and Joe Black of the Yankees.

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1970 Thurman Munson (.302, 6, 53) is named American League Rookie of the Year. The 23-year-old Yankee backstop, who threw out 52% of would-be base stealers, received twenty-three of the twenty-four first-place ballot votes cast, with Indian outfielder Roy Foster named on the other.

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1980 Gene Michael becomes the 25th Yankees' manager, replacing Dick Howser, who led New York to a first-place finish in the American League East after compiling a 103-59 record. The tall, thin skipper called 'Stick' will be fired in September but rehired by the Bronx Bombers' Boss George Steinbrenner at the end of April of the following season, only to be dismissed once again in August.

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1981 Brewer hurler Rollie Fingers becomes the first relief pitcher to win the American League MVP Award. The 34-year-old right-hander, also this season's Cy Young Award recipient, narrowly beats former A's teammate Rickey Henderson by 11 points.

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1986 Jose Canseco (.240, 33, 117) wins the American League's Rookie of the Year Award, narrowly outpointing Angels' first baseman Wally Joyner, 110-98. The 22-year-old Cuban-American is the first Oakland A's player selected for the freshman honor, becoming the first to accomplish the feat for the franchise since right-hander Harry Byrd (15-15, 3.31) copped the award in 1952 when the team played in Philadelphia.

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2002 The Red Sox hire the youngest general manager in major league history. Twenty-eight-year-old Theo Epstein, a lifetime Red Sox fan who grew up about a mile from Fenway Park, becomes the team's eleventh GM since the club first established the position in 1933.

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2003 The Cubs trade first baseman Hee Seop Choi (.210, 10, 32) and a minor league player to be named later (Mike Nannini) to the World Champion Marlins in exchange for Gold Glove first baseman Derrek Lee (.271, 31, 92).

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2004 After spending $67 million to acquire its former president's shares of the Mariners, the Nintendo U.S. subsidiary now owns more than 50 percent of the Northwest franchise. Due to Japanese superstar Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle is one of the favorite U.S. major league teams in the Land of the Rising Sun.

2005 The Phillies trade Jim Thome (.207, 7, 30) to the World Champion White Sox for center fielder Aaron Rowand (.270, 13, 69), and a pair of southpaw pitching prospects, Daniel Haigwood and Gio Gonzalez. The 35-year-old injury-ridden first baseman completed three seasons of his six-year $85 million deal with Philadelphia, helping the franchise establish creditability when the team moved to a new ballpark in 2004.

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2008 Chase Utley, expecting to need four to six months to recover, undergoes arthroscopic hip surgery at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery. Despite battling the injury for much of the year, the All-Star Phillies' second baseman played a pivotal role in the team's World Championship this season.

2008 The Marlins will endure a one-year delay in building their 37,000-seat, retractable-roof stadium, now set to open in 2012. Club president David Samson cites recent litigation slowed down the start of construction, and now it would not be cost-effective to keep to the original timeline.

2009 Citing his age and the lack of stamina needed to do the job well, legendary Yankee public address announcer Bob Sheppard indicates he will not be returning to the Bronx to do any games. The 99-year-old 'Voice of Yankee Stadium' spent more than 50 seasons behind the microphone introducing lineups that have included Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter.

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On November 25 in Baseball History...

• • 1930 - The Sporting News, acting to fill the Most Valuable Player void, announces its selection of Bill Terry as the Most Valuable Player in the National League, and Joe Cronin in the American League.
  • 1941 - Lou Boudreau is named player-manager of the Cleveland Indians. Boudreau, at 24 years, four months, and eight days, is the youngest manager appointed this century. Scotland-born Jim McCormick managed Cleveland in 1879 at age 23.
  • 1944 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner, dies of a heart attack at age 78 in Chicago. Landis had ruled over baseball since November 1920 in the wake of the Black Sox scandal, and wielded authority perhaps unparalleled in any other industry. Landis had entered the hospital on October 2. He will be named to the Hall of Fame on December 9 by a special committee that he formed on August 4.
  • 1949 - Ted Williams, who lost the Triple Crown when his batting average was.0002 below that of George Kell, wins the Most Valuable Player vote in a landslide. Phil Rizzuto and Joe Page finish second and third in the voting.
  • 1966 - Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted National League Rookie of the Year.
  • 1969 - Kansas City outfielder Lou Piniella is voted American League Rookie of the Year.
  • 1970 - Yankees catcher Thurman Munson receives twenty-three of twenty-four votes and is named American League Rookie of the Year. Munson batted .302 in 132 games.
  • 1972 - Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente wins his 12th straight Gold Glove, and Dodgers first baseman Wes Parker captures his sixth Gold Glove in a row. Neither will play in 1973.
    
    
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  • 1974 - Mike Hargrove of the Rangers takes American League Rookie of the Year honors.
  • 1981 - Rollie Fingers becomes the first relief pitcher ever to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award, edging Oakland's Rickey Henderson, 319-308.
  • 1985 - White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, who hit .273 with just 12 errors in 150 games, is named American League Rookie of the Year. Milwaukee lefty Teddy Higuera finishes second.
  • 1986 - Jose Canseco wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award, becoming the first A's player to do so since Harry Byrd in 1952.

Baseball Birthdays on November 25...

• • 1848 - Wright, Sam
  • 1858 - McCaffery, Harry
  • 1859 - Woulfe, Jimmy
  • 1865 - Cunningham, Bert
  • 1866 - Hughes, Bill
  • 1872 - Moore, George
  • 1875 - Parent, Freddy
  • 1880 - Corridon, Frank
  • 1882 - Brouthers, Art
  • 1889 - Vernon, Joe
  • 1889 - Crutcher, Dick
  • 1893 - Bailey, Gene
  • 1895 - May, Jakie
  • 1903 - Weaver, Jim
  • 1914 - Handley, Gene
  • 1914 - DiMaggio, Joe
  • 1915 - Finley, Bob
  • 1916 - Georgy, Oscar
  • 1917 - Perme, Len
  • 1922 - Wells, John
  • 1923 - Wilson, Archie
  • 1928 - Narleski, Ray
  • 1931 - Pyecha, John
  • 1933 - Waugh, Jim
  • 1934 - Naranjo, Cholly
  • 1935 - Duffalo, Jim
  • 1940 - Aust, Dennis
  • 1941 - Ryan, Mike
  • 1942 - Etheridge, Bobby
  • 1945 - Redmond, Wayne
  • 1946 - Leshnock, Don
  • 1946 - Ford, Wenty
  • 1951 - Dent, Bucky
  • 1957 - Brewer, Tony
  • 1957 - Walker, Chico
  • 1957 - Baker, Dave
  • 1964 - Davis, Mark
  • 1965 - Veres, Randy
  • 1966 - Whiten, Mark
  • 1968 - Johnstone, John
  • 1971 - Alvarez, Tavo
  • 1972 - Fermin, Ramon
  • 1975 - Dotel, Octavio

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