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BOSTON (AP) — Boston first baseman Dick Stuart calls his selection as the American League's comeback - player-of-the-year “my first big award in the big leagues. Now f hope next, year it will be most • valuable-player.Tlie most controversial figure to wear a Red Sox uniform since Ted Williams retired, Stuart took full advantage of Fenway Park's short if high left field wall this season after a miserable 1962 at Pittsburgh.The right-handed slugger drew 31? of the 64 votes case by baseball writers in the annual Associated Press poll. Far behind in the runner-up position was Detroit pitcher Frank Lary, who got six votes.Baltimore pitcher Steve Barber, Boston third baseman Frank Mal-lone and Detroit outfielder A1 Kalinc each were named on three ballots.The Red Sox acquired Stuart in an inter-league trade after he hit a meager .229 with only 16 homers and 64 runs batted in’for the Pirates. Transplanted to Boston, Stuart led the American Leaguein KBI with 118, was second to Harmon Killebrewr mhomer* with C and boosted his average to .201.It certainly makes me feel happy,” Sfuart said when informed of the award.“I’m naturally glad for him, said Boston Manager Johnny Pesky. Stop and look at the figures. They're very interesting. The way things turned out Stuart 1 certainly deserved it. iI hope he hits 90 home runs 1 next year. He was responsible for i putting people in the ball park. I He’s quite a guy. He’s contro- : versial.I think he's a nice kid. But he j just has that kind of personality. People either like him or they, 1 don't. Fans didn't talk about Bill J Monbouquette, Carl Yastrzemski,1 or Dick Radatz. They talked about Dick Stuart.Stuart is the first player to hit i TO or more homers and have 100; or more RBI in each major league. He rang up 35 and 117, respectively, at Pittsburgh in 1961.A 23-game winner for Detroit in 1961, Lary bounced back from a sore arm and a minor league assignment to gain four victories and pilch six complefe games.
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Lake Charles American Press
Lake Charles, Louisiana, US
Fri, Oct 11, 1963
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