by Tom KrasovicFiled under: Reds, MLB Awards
Grab your moonshine jars, Reds fans, and raise a toast from Southern Ohio across Kentucky and into West Virginia. Your guy Joey Votto is Most Valuable Player of not only Flyover Land but the entire National League.
Let's hear it, Canada. A peppy rendition of "Oh, Canada" is in order. True, citizen Votto is no lover of puck. (Look, children, he still has all of his teeth.) Yet he is only the third Canadian to win the best of baseball's individual awards, which was first issued in 1911.
Take a bow, Kasey McKeon. When you drafted Votto eight years ago for Cincinnati, the critics clucked their disapproval. How could you? A second-round pick on a high school player from Toronto? Listen to the critics now -- silence.
Hal McCoy, light up a cigar. After 37 years as a beat reporter covering the Reds, you moved off the beat and were summoned to Votto's locker in 2009 expecting to hear that he was upset over something you'd written. Instead Votto handed you a box of cigars and thanked you. "For what I'd written about him and what I'd done for baseball," McCoy said.
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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/11/22/joey-vottos-triumph-stretches-far-wide/
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