The 2007 Major League Baseball season should have been one of the ages. There were broken records, Canadian firsts, historic comebacks and epic collapses .

Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals unanimously won his third National League Most Valuable Player award, joining a group of players that includes seven Hall of Fame members.

Albert Pujols was unanimously voted National League MVP on Tuesday, becoming the first player to repeat since Barry Bonds won four in a row from 2001-04. NL MVP Voting By unanimous vote, Albert Pujols became the first player since Barry Bonds to win back-to-back NL MVP awards.

It might be a good idea for Tim Lincecum to hold onto the key to the Giants franchise trophy case.

John pulls no punches in his coverage of the Giants and his support of Barry Bonds.

Most home runs by a player in one World Series: Five x-Chase Utley, PHILLIES, 2009 Reggie Jackson, New York Yankees, 1977 Four Babe Ruth, N.Y. Yankees, 1926 Lou Gehrig, N.Y. Yankees, 1928 Duke Snider, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1952 Duke Snider, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1955 Hank Bauer, N.Y. Yankees, 1958 Gene Tenace, Oakland Athletics, 1972 Barry Bonds, San ...

Sean Forman is the creator of Baseball-Reference.com , an on-line baseball encyclopedia containing statistics for every player and team in major league history, and box scores, splits and gamelogs back to 1954.

Notice how it ended the way it began, the World Series' first decade of the 21st century? The New York Yankees with a championship, now looking for the next.

A prodigious power show doesn't always equate to World Series victory. A look at the top home run performances since Reggie Jackson raised the bar in 1977, and whether they resulted in a winning effort: Player Year, team Power display Outcome Reggie Jackson 1977 Yankees Five HR, including three in Game 6 Yankees defeat Dodgers in six games Willie ...

Sort of an easy one, no? He makes his World Series debut with 583 career homers.

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa giving first baseman, Mark McGwire a hug after the Cardinals defeated the Cubs 2-1 at Busch Stadium.

Scientists at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service report the development of a successful method for storing frozen budwood from ash trees and thawing the delicate buds for later use in propagation.

The last couple of weeks have been downright brutal for Dodger fans. Not only did the team get booted for the second consecutive year by the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League championship series, but now fans are learning about the front-office infighting during the season between owner Frank McCourt and his wife and former Dodger chief ...

25 seemed inevitable for Johnny Damon . On Aug. 30 against the White Sox at Yankee Stadium, he hit his 24th home run, tying his single-season high set in 2006.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Like any other tourists, the Angels will be in the city this weekend to see a show.

Which of these players had the best postseason performance of all time? Alex Rodriguez, 2009: .407 avg, 5 HRs, 11 RBI* David Ortiz, 2004: LCS-record 11 RBI , 3 HRs Carlos Beltran, 2004: 8 HRs, 14 RBI, .434 avg, record 21 runs Barry Bonds, 2002: .356 avg, record 8 HRs , 16 RBI, 27 walks Derek Jeter, 2000: .409 with two homers vs.

Will he or won't he? Baseball commissioner Bud Selig apparently is still dithering.

"Things get magnified" is a popular phrase at this time of year in "the baseball bidness," as Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel likes to say.

With runners on first and second in the 12th inning early Sunday, the "A-Rod!" chants started swelling at Yankee Stadium.

When Barry Bonds blasts home run 756 sometime in the coming days or weeks, will it be with an SSK bat or the Ottawa-born and bred Sam Bat, the one that helped him set a major-league single-season record of 73 homers in 2001? It's true.