NEW YORK (AP)—Josh Hamilton(notes) thought back to the days when his career was derailed by drugs and alcohol.
“I would say a 99 percent chance that this would never happen,” he said. “I mean, honestly, I think a lot of people would agree with that.”
In one of baseball’s most inspirational turnarounds, the Texas Rangers outfielder was a runaway winner of the American League’s Most Valuable Player award Tuesday. Hamilton received 22 first-place votes and 358 points from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Former Cincinnati Reds teammate Joey Votto(notes)was voted the NL MVP a day earlier.
