1961 Major League Baseball Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

1960 MLB / 1962 MLB / 1961 AL / 1961 NL Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

League Awards

Batting stats are G BA/OBP/SLG Pitching stats are W-L ERA, SO.

Award-Winners Complete Voting Results

Cy Young Award	Whitey Ford NYY 25-4, 3.21, 209 SO
World Series MVP	Whitey Ford - S
TSN Major League Player of the Year	Roger Maris NYY 161 G .269/.372/.620
Lou Gehrig Memorial Award	Warren Spahn

MLB Other Leaders

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Wins Above Replacement--all s c a p y
1.	Mantle (NYY)	10.2
2.	Aaron (MLN)	9.1
3.	Cash (DET)	8.9
4.	Mays (SFG)	8.4
5.	Kaline (DET)	8.2
6.	Boyer (STL)	7.6
7.	Colavito (DET)	7.4
8.	Robinson (CIN)	7.3
9.	Pinson (CIN)	7.2
10.	Mathews (MLN)	7.0

Oldest s c a p y
1.	Boyd (MLN)	born 1919-10-01
2.	Wynn (CHW)	born 1920-01-06
3.	Philley (BAL)	born 1920-05-16
4.	Staley (KCA)	born 1920-08-21
5.	Musial (STL)	born 1920-11-21
6.	Valo (PHI)	born 1921-03-05
7.	Crowe (STL)	born 1921-03-22
8.	Spahn (MLN)	born 1921-04-23
9.	Rivera (KCA)	born 1921-07-22
10.	Fowler (LAA)	born 1922-07-03

Youngest s c a p y
1.	Krausse (KCA)	born 1943-04-25
2.	DeGerick (CHW)	born 1943-04-01
3.	McDowell (CLE)	born 1942-09-21
4.	Murphy (CHC)	born 1942-08-23
5.	Dotter (MIN)	born 1942-08-07
6.	Heiser (WSA)	born 1942-06-22
7.	Buchek (STL)	born 1942-05-09
8.	Fregosi (LAA)	born 1942-04-04
9.	Hubbs (CHC)	born 1941-12-23
10.	Brinkman (WSA)	born 1941-12-08

For batting rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/G, 1.0 IP/G, 0.5 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), and 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/G for single-season leaderboards generally needed for rate statistics. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1954, so all leaders are since 1954. Explanation of min. requirements

1960 MLB / 1962 MLB / 1961 AL / 1961 NL Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

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