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Back then, the award was given to whom the writers thought was truly most valuable to their team's success.If you look at historical award voting, there are a lot of these type of situations that really don't make any sense. I was curious about Musial when he passed and found that he could have easily had at least one or two more MVPs himself.
The year you bring up is especially bad...Gehringer who finished 2nd place in 1934 was better than Cochrane in literally every stat they have listed. Gehrig's season was even better than Gehringer's, and he finishes 5th. And what about Jimmie Foxx who puts up .334/44/130 and comes in 10th?? No idea how that happens.
World Series is important...and always has been.