This Day in Baseball History November 25
1930 Giants first baseman Bill Terry (.401, 14, 117) is selected by the Sporting News as the NL Most Valuable Player and Senators shortstop Joe Cronin (.346, 13, 126) receives the honor for the American League.
1941 With only three years of major league experience, Lou Boudreau is named as the Indian player-manager. At the age of 24 years, four months, and eight days, the Cleveland shortstop becomes the youngest skipper to pilot a team this century.
1944 Baseball's only commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, dies at the age of 74. He served in the baseball's top post for 24 years.
1949 Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams (.343, 43, 159), who barely lost the Triple Crown when his average was .0002 below that of Tiger third baseman George Kell, is selected as the American League MVP by an overwhelming vote.
1970 Thurman Munson is named American League Rookie of the Year. The young Yankee backstop receives twenty-three of twenty-four votes cast as Indian outfielder Roy Foster is also named on a first place ballot.
1980 Gene Michael becomes 25th Yankee manager replacing a resigning Dick Howser. The Yankees will the American pennant in the first of the two seasons 'Stick' will manage the Bronx Bombers.
1981 Brewer hurler Rollie Fingers becomes the first relief pitcher ever to win the American League MVP Award narrowly beating former A's teammate Rickey Henderson by 11 points.
1986 Jose Canseco wins the American League's Rookie of the Year Award. The Cuban-American is the first A's player to win the honor since Harry Byrd accomplish the feat for Kansas City in 1952.
2002 The Red Sox hire the youngest general manager in major league history. Twenty-eight year-year-old Theo Epstein, a life-time Red Sox fan who was grew up about a mile from Fenway Park, becomes the team's11th GM since the club's first established the position in 1933.
2003 The Cubs trade first baseman Hee Seop Choi (.210, 10, 32) and a minor league player to be named later to the World Champion Marlins in exchange for Gold Glove first baseman Derrek Lee (.271, 31, 92).
2004 After spending $67 million to acquire its former president’s shares of the Mariners, the Nintendo's U.S. subsidiary now owns more than 50 percent of the Northwest franchise. Due to the presence Japanese superstar Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle is one of the favorite U.S. major league teams in the Land of the Rising Sun.
2005 The Phillies trade Jim Thome (.207, 7, 30) to the World Champion White Sox for center fielder Aaron Rowland (.270, 13, 69) and a pair of southpaw pitching prospects, Daniel Haigwood and Giovany Gonzalez. The 35-year injury ridden first baseman completed three seasons of a six-year $85 million deal with Philadelphia helping the franchise to establish creditability as the team moved to a new ball park in 2004.
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This Day in Baseball History November 25
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