Editing Most valuable player (section)

==History==

The first most valuable player award given in North American sports can be traced back to professional [[baseball]] in the early 1900s. A group of sportswriters met after the 1911 baseball season to determine the "most important and useful players to the club and to the league". These athletes would receive The Chalmers Award, named for Hugh Chalmers, a car manufacturer seeking to increase sales of his Chalmers Model 30 automobiles. The first recipients were Ty Cobb, playing for the Detroit Tigers, and Frank Schulte of the Chicago Cubs. The award was discontinued in 1955, after it failed to result in higher car sales.  From 1922 to 1928 in the American League and from 1924 to 1929 in the National League, an MVP award was given to "the baseball player who is of the greatest all-around service to his club". Prior winners were not eligible to win the MVP award again during this time. The MVP award, as it is known today in Major League Baseball, was first established in 1931.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Five Traits of an MVP: How All-Stars Maximize Their Value |date=November 1, 2018 |website=Monitordaily |url=https://www.monitordaily.com/article-posts/five-traits-mvp-stars-maximize-value/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220827062633/https://www.monitordaily.com/article-posts/five-traits-mvp-stars-maximize-value/ |archive-date=2022-08-27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=MLB Most Valuable Player MVP Award Winners|website=Baseball-Reference.com|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/mvp.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506154720/https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/mvp.shtml |archive-date=2022-05-06 }}</ref>