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Most Valuable Players in Professional Sports
Professional athletes who have received a league-wide Most Valuable Player award or equivalent recognition (such as "Player of the Year") for a season in a professional sports league.
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Name
Years
Other Names
Bucky Walters
1939
baseball
Rogers Hornsby
1942
baseball
Spurgeon "Spud" Chandler
1943
baseball
Milt Schmidt
1961
ice hockey
Maury Wills
1962
baseball
Ebbie Goodfellow
1963
ice hockey
Elston Howard
1963
baseball
Boog Powell
1970
baseball
Yogi Berra
1972
baseball
Thurman Munson
1976
baseball
Chipper Jones
1999
baseball
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
2002
basketball
Ryne Sandberg
2005
baseball
LaDainian Tomlinson
2006
football
Thurman Thomas
2007
football