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Expert: - 10/3/2007


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any player to win league mvp who was not on the all star team that season?


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Martin,

  Good question! It's rare, but it's not unheard of for this to happen. It happened more often than I would have thought.

MVPs Who Did Not Make the All Star Team

Don Newcombe     1956
Dave Parker           1978
Willie Stargell         1979
Kirk Gibson            1988
Robin Yount           1989
Terry Pendleton     1991
Juan Gonzalez      1996
Chipper Jones       1999

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