Mike Trout of the Angels won his first American League MVP Award on Thursday night, and Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers earned the National League honor, marking only the 11th time that two players from the same market captured the hardware for the same season.
It hadn't happened since the Giants' Barry Bonds and the A's Miguel Tejada were named MVPs in 2002, and it's happened only twice since 1959, with another Bay Area combo -- Giants second baseman Jeff Kent and A's first baseman Jason Giambi -- doing it in 2000.
Before the Dodgers and Giants moved to California for the 1958 season, New York had both MVPs six times in a 20-year stretch. Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees did it in 1936, Dolph Camilli of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Joe DiMaggio of the Yankees in '41, Roy Campanella of the Dodgers and Yogi Berra of the Yankees in '51, Willie Mays of the Giants and Berra in '54, Campanella and Berra in '55, and Don Newcombe of the Dodgers and Mickey Mantle of the Yankees in '56.
The feat was also accomplished by two Philly players in '32 (Chuck Klein of the Phillies and Jimmie Foxx of the A's) and two Chicago players in '59 (Ernie Banks of the Cubs and Nellie Fox of the White Sox).
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