Sport: Scoreboard, Nov. 23, 1959

¶ Scrappy, chaw-jawed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, whose slick fielding (.988) and slap-hitting (.306; two home runs, 149 singles) led the Chicago White Sox to their first pennant in 40 years, won the American League's most-valuable-player award of the Baseball Writers' Association. The National League's MVP: Slugging Shortstop Ernie Banks, 28, of the fifth-place Chicago Cubs, who led the majors in runs batted in (143), finished second in the majors in home runs (45), set a league fielding record for shortstops (.985), became the first player ever to win the award two years running.

¶ They dropped three men back on him when he got a pass, stalled when they got the ball, but no trickery tried by the champion Boston Celtics could stop the Minneapolis Lakers' agile, husky (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.) Elgin Baylor from pouring in 64 points to give his team a home-court 136-115 victory, break by one point the scoring record of the National Basketball Association set in 1949 by Philadelphia's jump-shooting Joe Fulks.