Ron Santo becomes the first player to invoke the new 10 and 5 rule. The Cubs want to trade Santo to the Angels for two pitchers, but he vetoes the deal.
The Dodgers trade OF Willie Davis to the Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall. Marshall will win the Cy Young Award for the Dodgers next season.
For the New York Mets to stay with the Oakland A’s in the 1973 World Series surely would require an amazing effort by the National League champions. The ’73 Mets, it turned out, were downright amazin’. Manager Yogi Berra’s Mets had won the National League pennant in a fiercely contested five-game Championship Series against a…
1973 – Pete Rose wins the National League MVP Award in a controversial vote, edging out Willie Stargell. Rose led the NL with 230 hits and won his third batting crown with a .338 mark. Stargell led the league with 44 home runs, 119 runs batted in, and a .646 slugging percentage while batting .299.
Oakland Athletics outfielder Reggie Jackson wins the American League MVP Award in unanimous fashion. The future Hall of Famer led the AL with 32 home runs, 117 RBI, 99 runs and a .531 slugging percentage, in helping the Athletics to their second straight World Series title.
Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer is named the 1973 American League Cy Young Award winner. Palmer collected 22 victories and led the circuit with a 2.40 ERA.
November 13, 1973 – Reggie Jackson is named AL MVP after hitting .293 and leading the league in home runs (32), RBI (117) and runs scored (99). The World Series MVP also led the A’s to their second consecutive World Series Championship in 1973.Jackson recieved all 24 first place votes, with Jim Palmer coming in…
October 30, 1973: Tom Seaver wins his second Cy Young Award (19-10, 2.08 ERA, 18 complete games and 251 Ks). Seaver said: “Sandy Koufax won the award three times and I’ve won it twice and have a chance to win it a third time.” Seaver will win his 3rd Cy Young in 1975….
October 25, 1973 at the ripe old age of 47, Gene Mauch has won another National League Manager of the Year award. “That’s a long period, of time” Mauch said manager of the Montreal Expos, said at his suburban Hacienda Heights home, and he added with a chuckle: It’s just like my career…
1973 – The Chicago Cubs trade six-time 20-game winner Ferguson Jenkins to the Texas Rangers for third baseman Bill Madlock and utility man Vic Harris. Meanwhile, the San Francisco Giants trade three-time home run champion Willie McCovey, a Giant since 1959, together with minor leaguer Bernie Williams,to the San Diego Padres for pitcher Mike Caldwell.
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