That was 1981 when Ron Cey, Pedro Guerroro, and Steve Yeager of the Los Angeles Dodgers shared the award.
Each team are allowed only 23 players.
In 2009, Hideki Matsui won his only World Series championship with the Yankees. He was also named the World Series MVP.
Not only do they have 27 World Series titles, but throughout their history they have had the best players. Even to this day great players like Derek Jeter are making it to the Hall of Fame.
Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series to defeat the New York Yankees and Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies.
Only four players have had three-homer games in World Series competition -- Babe Ruth (who did it twice), Reggie Jackson, Albert Pujols and Pablo Sandoval.
Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series MVP award in 1964. He also won the award in 1967. Sandy Koufax, Reggie Jackson and Gibson are the only players to win the World Series MVP award twice.
Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series against the New York Yankees and Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
Actually, Cano was named after Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson, whose only connection to the Yankees was playing them six times in the World Series.
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1. Jim Thome -- 589 home runs. Appeared in 1995 and 1997 World Series. 2. Vladimir Guerrero -- 436 home runs. Has never played in a World Series. 3. Jason Giambi -- 415 home runs. Appeared in the 2003 World Series. 4. Andruw Jones -- 407 home runs. Appeared in the 1996 and 1999 World Series.
Livan Hernandez of the Florida Marlins won the World Series MVP award in 1997. He also won the the NLCS MVP award that year. Willie Stargell, Darrell Porter and Orel Hershiser are the only other players to win the league championship MVP and World Series MVP awards in the same season.
if i counted correctly of the 208 players in the baseball hall of fame only 129 actually won a world series 29 played in a world series but never won one