MVP

Every year, tens of millions of baseball fans vociferously debate and anxiously anticipate the annual merits of MVP candidates: This fascinating and provocative book covers every era of baseball, supporting the MVP choices or trashing the winners and suggesting alternative players who should have won. Controversial, argumentative and thought provoking, Cohen, a baseball scholar, discusses the award's origin, theorizes on what attributes a Most Valuable Player should possess, and analyzes ev...