How Many Second Basemen Are in Baseballs Hall of Fame?
When Dustin Pedroia, the slick-fielding second baseman for the Boston Red Sox, was voted the Most Valuable Player Award in the American League by the Baseball Writers of America in 2008, he was only the ninth keystone sacker to win the award in the 78 years that the BBWA has offically been maing MVPs. Of all the positions in baseball, second basemen have received the fewest MVP awards. Pedroia was the first keystone sacker to be named MVP in the American League since Nellie Fox turned the play back in 1959, the year the ” Go-Go White Sox ” won the A.L. pennant. The Go-Go Sox interrupted the New York Yankees’ dominace of the American League from 1955 through 1964, when they won the pennant every year except for 1959. (The Yanks also dominated the era 1947 through 1954, when they lost the A.L. pennant to the Cleveland Indians in ’48 and ’54.) Nellie Fox, who racked up over 2,600 hits in his 19-year career, was voted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in
