Complex sentence: Snider finished second to teammate Roy Campanella in the 1955 Most Valuable Player balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America by just five points, 226-221, with each man receiving eight first place votes.
Split into simpler sentences: Snider finished second to teammate Roy Campanella in the 1955 Most Valuable Player balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America. He trailed Campanella by just five points, 226-221, with each man receiving eight first-place votes.