Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, November 18, 1971 Page Eight THE MiCHIGAN DAILY I I I INSTANT PRINT GO BLUE! BEAT OHIO0 T-SHIRTS at STATE STREET at NORTH UNIV. HAVE A DEVIL ? BANDO SECOND: Blue n NEW YORK (') -- Left-handed pitcher Vida Blue of the Oakland A's was named the winner of the American League Most Valuable Player award yesterday. At 22, Blue is the youngest player ever to win an MVP honor in either league. Blue, who won the Cy Young Award as the AL's outstanding pitcher last month, earned 14 of a possible 24 first place votes and 268 points from the Baseball Writers Association of America committee. Sal Bando, Blue's Oak- land teammate, garnered four first place votes and 182 points to finish second. The Robinson boys of the AL- champion Baltimore Orioles gained the next two places. Outfielder Frank Robinson received 170 points and two first place votes to finish third, while third baseman Brooks Robinson collected 163 points and three first place votes to come in fourth. Detroit pitcher Mickey Lolich, runner-up to Blue in the Cy Young balloting, got the other first place For the student body: FLARES by Levi Farah '~Wright ' Lee IM amed vote and finished fifth with 155 points. A total of 29 players were men- tioned in the MVP voting. Blue was the only player to be named on every ballot. Until Blue received the honor, the youngest player to be named MVP was Cincinnati catcher John- ny Bench in 1970. Bench was just a few weeks shy of his 23rd birth- day when he received his MVP award, while Blue will not turn 23 until next July 28. The hard-throwing left-hander, in his first full season of major league ball, compiled a 24-8 record, led the league with a 1.82 earned run average, completed 24 of his 39 starts and struck out 301 batters. In addition to his 14 first place votes, Blue also received four sec- onds, two thirds and one each for 4L fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth.i Blue is the fifth pitcher to win both the Cy Young and MVP honors. Don Newcombe did it in 1956, the year the Cy Young Award was initiated. The others were Sandy Koufax in 1963, Bob Gibson, 1968, and Denny McLain, also 1968. He is the fifth pitcher to win the American League MCP since the award was first issued 40 years ago. Hal Newhouser won it twice, in 1944 and 1945. The other pitchers to win the MVP were Lefty Grove, 1931; Spud Chandler, 1943; Bobby Shantz, 1952, and McLain, 1968. Blue is the first Oakland player to win the MVP and the first mem- ber of the A's to receive the honor since Shantz won it in 1952, when the twice-transplanted franchise was in Philadelphia. Bando, the Oakland third base- man who hit .271, slammed 24 home runs and drove in 94 runs, was named on all but one of the ballots. Frank Robinson hit .281 with 28 homers and 99 runs batted in, while Brooks Robinson batted .272 with 20 homers and 92 RBI. Lolich, 25- 14, was the winningest pitcher in the major leagues. At the White House last sum- mer, President Nixon called Blue "the most underpaid player in baseball." Blue observed that the Most Valuable Player award coming close on the heels of the Cy Young Award for being the league's out- standing pitcher would not hurt his bargaining position. "Now that the wage-price freeze is over, I think it's just a matter of time," said Blue. "I'm not say- ing that we're going to sign within the next day or two, but now that the freeze is over it makes it legal for everyone to negotiate to get a raise or a new contract or what- ever they're negotiating for." It was suggested the Federal Pay Board probably would be will- ing to exempt Blue from the 5.5 per cent pay raise ceiling. "They're going to have to," Blue said with a grin. "Because I'm going to be begging, man." 'A Most Valuable Playe r I Gridde Pickings 'Typing Assignment Number 67: For Speed and Accuracy Ready ... Begin! The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog in a frantic effort 4 4D of a good dinner at Thano s Lamplighter OUR SPECIALTY: American & Greek Cuisine to deliver his Gridde Picks to Friday at midnight. 1. Ohio State at MICHIGAN (pick score) 2. Michigan State at Northwestern , 3. Purdue at Indiana 4. Iowa at Illinois 5. Wisconsin at Minnesota 6. California at Stanford 7. Oklahoma State at Iowa State 8. North Carolina at Duke 9. Harvard at Yale 10. Air Force at Colorado the decaying Daily Building before 11. Texas Tech at Arkansas 12. Missouri at Kansas 13. Oregon State at Oregon 14. UCLA at Southern Cal 15. Washington State at Washington 16. Penn State at Pittsburgh 17. Virginia at Maryland 18. West Virginia at Syracuse 19. Notre Dame at Louisiana State 20. Eastern Kentucky at Morehead State AMERICAN LEAGUE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER VIDA BLUE receives a motherly kiss from his mother after getting the news of his triumph yesterday at his home in Mansfield, La. Blue cap- tured the league's Cy Young Award earlier in the month. DEFENSE TOPS Wolverines ride high in stats CHECKMATE 421 E. Liberty 665-7003 rL' State Street at Liberty ~I SEE OUR AD IN THE JOURNAL of ACCOUNTANCY Becker CPA Review Course 313-961-1400 HAIRSTYLING AS YOU LIKE ITI TRIMS-SHAGS J RAZOR CUTS Dascola Barbers 0611 E. University * near Michigan Theatre SCORES NBA Boston 140, Phoenix 121 Baltimore 113, Cincinnati 103 Seattle 112, Atlanta 104 Houston 118, Philadelphia 112 ABA Kentucky 117, virginia 112 Pittsburgh 122, New York 121 Carolina 113, Denver 101 Indiana at Utah, inc. 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It is the Cornhuskers, however, who lead the nation in total defense, as they have given up U-M STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF 9 Days on r SPANISH RIVIERA Rates based on Double Occupancy $249 DEC. 26-JAN. 3 INCLUDES * ROUND TRIP JET TRANSPORTATION 0 WELCOME SANGRIA PARTY " ALL TRANSFERS * MANY TOUR OPTIONS For further information call HELENE BEDNARSH 769-0165 171.7 yards a contest. Michigan- ranks third in this category, be- hind second-place Toledo, with a figure of 183.7 yards. On the offensive side of the coin, Oklahoma r e m a i n s the pacesetter as they lead the na- tion's colleges in three different categories. The Sooners' rushing offense (481.4 yard average) is far ahead of second - place New Mexico's (385.8' yards) as well as the NCAA record of 391 yards per game set by Bud Wilkenson's 1956 Oklahom team. The Wol- verine running game is the third best in the country with an av- erage of 342.5 yards. Oklahoma is also threatening to break the NCAA total offense record. They are currently av- eraging 563.2 yards a game-1.2 yards more than the Houston team of 1966. The Blue offense ranks ninth in this department with an average of 406.2 yards. Michigan is the third-highest scoring team this year with a 39.9 point per game a ve r a g: e. Ahead of them are Oklahoma (45.0) and Penn State (43.1). Turning to some individual categories, Cornell's Ed Mari- naro's 206.4 rushing yards a con- test is good enough .to lead the Watch Repair 1 WEEK SERVICE PLUS 24-HOUR SERVICE ON WATCH CRYSTALS CAMPUS JEWELERS 719 N. UNIV. nation for the umpteenth week in a row. Billy Taylor is now nineteenth in the nationgwith an average of 109.7 r us h in g yards. Among place-kickers, Michi- gan's Dana Coin is part-owner of first place along with Penn State's Italian, soccer-style kick- er Albert Vitiello. Each is av- eraging 7.1 points. Meanwhile, the newly released Big Ten statistics reveal why Michigan has clinched its 23rd conference title, as the Wolver- ines continue to dominate in vir- tually every team department. Defensively, the Big Blue ranks first in every category but pass- ing defense, w h e r e they are seeded third. Likewise, Michi- gan 's offense leads in every de- partment except passing. Individually, Billy Taylor is second in rushing (1097 yards) behind Michigan State's E r i c Allen (1382), and bruising Ed Shuttlesworth is s i x t h (758 yards). In addition, Taylor needs only six more yards to break the Big Ten's all-time three-year rushing record held by ex-Illini Jim Grabowski. In the scoring battle, Billy Taylor (72 points) and Dana Coin (71 points) rank third and fourth. They are, however, far behind Allen's first-place total of 104 points. Finally, Tom Darden and Bruce Elliott are first and sec- ond in punt returns with 10.3 yards a punt and 8.8 yards a p u n t respectively. 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