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Alfred Bouman Chosen BI's Top Player Friday, March 30th , 1956 What a way to finish off the year -- being honored with the 1956 Most Valuable Player Award in the Baseball Internationale. It had already been a very special season for The Netherlands's Alfred Bouman, but today's announcement really put the icing on his cake. All season long Alfred Bouman gave opposing pitchers fits by hitting .396 as he collected 19 hits, 4 doubles, no triples, 4 home runs and 16 RBIs. He received 6 first place votes out of a possible 24. Mike O'Shea of the The United States finished second in voting with 7 first place votes, while Jin-woo Sima of the China finished third with 5 first place votes. Player - Team - First Place - Total Points Alfred Bouman - The Netherlands - 6 - 201 Mike O'Shea - The United States - 7 - 199 Jin-woo Sima - China - 5 - 197 Lawson Connor - Canada - 0 - 101 Francis Griffiths - England - 4 - 96 Hughie Jones - England - 0 - 75 Frank Hadfield - England - 1 - 72 Oscar Ventura - Cuba - 1 - 70 Brett Ruzic - Australia - 0 - 62 Tim Pond - Canada - 0 - 57 Alfredo Jimenez - Venezuela - 0 - 47 Hervé Deschamps - France - 0 - 38 Romain Larue - France - 0 - 36 Remon Bevelander - The Netherlands - 0 - 31 Alejandro Mejia - Dominican Republic - 0 - 31 Jesus Medina - Mexico - 0 - 17 Kjeld Penders - The Netherlands - 0 - 13 Hiromi Yoneda - Japan - 0 - 12 Walter Drwal - Poland - 0 - 10 Borisav Stambolic - Croatia - 0 - 10 Zaccaria Cartellieri - Italy - 0 - 9 Fedor Mayanov - Russia - 0 - 8 Sadik Sinan - Germany - 0 - 8 Noah McMillan - England - 0 - 7 Glenn Berger - Belgium - 0 - 4 Zuo-qian Lu - China - 0 - 2 Byron Ward - England - 0 - 2 Omer Bloem - Belgium - 0 - 1 |
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