​Every MLB All-Star Game MVP by year: Complete list of winners, from Mike Trout to Derek Jeter originally appeared on The Sporting News.
Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Every summer, MLB pauses action in July, giving the majority of the league a break to rest up for the second part of the season. The league’s best, however, get less time off because they participate in the annual MLB All-Star Game and related festivities. Unlike the NFL’s Pro Bowl, but similar to the NBA’s All-Star Game, MLB holds its All-Star Game during the regular season. The Midsummer Classic pits the best of the American League against the best of the National League. Historically, the league that won the All-Star Game earned home-field advantage for that year’s World Series. That was changed in 2017, and now the winners of the All-Star Game just get a nice bonus check. The best player in the All-Star Game is awarded the All-Star Game MVP Award. In its history, it was known as the Arch Ward Memorial Trophy, honoring the inventor of the MLB All-Star Game, and the Commissioner’s Trophy, although that became the name of the World Series Trophy in 1985. Since 2003, the MLB All-Star Game Trophy has been named the Ted Williams Trophy. Here is a list of every player who has won the MLB All-Star Game MVP Award. MORE:The longest homers in Home Run Derby historyEvery MLB All-Star Game MVP by yearWhen it was first awarded in 1962, a player from each league won the award; however, since then, there has been only one winner per year, except for 1975. Five players — Willie Mays, Cal Ripken Jr., Gary Carter, Steve Garvey and Mike Trout — have won the MLB All-Star Game MVP Award more than once. Only one player — Derek Jeter — has won the All-Star Game MVP the same year that he won the World Series MVP Award. The White Sox, Tigers, Diamondbacks and Cardinals have never had an All-Star Game MVP. The Nationals technically haven’t, but did when the franchise was still in Montreal as the Expos.Here is a complete list of every player to win the MLB All-Star Game MVP Award, sorted by year. YearPlayerTeamLeaguePosition1962Maury WillisDodgersNationalShortstop1962Leon WagnerAngelsAmericanOutfield1963Willie MaysGiantsNationalOutfield1964Johnny CallisonPhilliesNationalOutfield1965Juan MarichalGiantsNationalPitcher1966Brooks RobinsonOriolesAmericanThird Base1967Tony PerezRedsNationalThird Base1968Willie MaysGiantsNationalOutfield1969Willie McCoveyGiantsNationalFirst Base1970Carl YastrzemskiRed SoxAmericanOutfield/First Base1971Frank RobinsonOriolesAmericanOutfield1972Joe MorganRedsNationalSecond Base1973Bobby BondsGiantsNationalOutfield1974Steve GarveyDodgersNationalOutfield1975Bill MadlockCubsNationalThird BaseJon MatlackMetsNationalPitcher1976George FosterRedsNationalOutfield1977Don SuttonDodgersNationalPitcher1978Steve GarveyDodgersNationalFirst Base1979Dave ParkerPiratesNationalOutfield1980Ken Griffey Sr.RedsNationalOutfielder1981Gary CarterE