page_title: Texas League Player of the Year Award
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: Texas League Player of the Year Award / Winners
caption_attribution_description: Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers, cropped from a posed picture of 1937 Major League Baseball All-Stars in Washington, DC.
context_page_description: The Texas League Player of the Year Award is an annual award given to the best player in minor league baseball's Texas League. In 1931, Dizzy Dean won the first ever Texas League Player of the Year Award.
  First basemen, with 21 winners, have won the most among infielders, followed by third basemen, second basemen, and shortstops. Two catchers have also won the award. Thirty-one outfielders have won the Player of the Year Award, the most of any position. A total of five pitchers have won the award. The Texas League established a Pitcher of the Year Award in 1933. The five pitchers who won Player of the Year Awards won the honor before its creation and during two periods in which the pitcher's award was not given.
  Nine players from the St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball organization have won the Player of the Year Award, more than any other, followed by the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim origanizations; the Houston Colt .45's/Astros organization; the St.
caption: Hank Greenberg, 1932 Texas League Player of the Year
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