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The Babe Ruth Award is given annually to the Major League Baseball (MLB) player with the best performance in the postseason. The award, created in honor of Babe Ruth by the New York City chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), was first presented in 1949. It continued to be awarded exclusively for performances in the World Series until 2007, when the New York chapter of the BBWAA changed the award to cover the entire postseason. Though it is older than the World Series Most Valuable Player Award, which was not created until 1955, the Babe Ruth Award is considered less prestigious, because it is not sanctioned by MLB and is awarded several weeks after the World Series. Joe Page (pictured) of the New York Yankees was the first winner of the Babe Ruth Award, and Jonathan Papelbon of the Boston Red Sox was the first winner since the award criteria changed to cover the entire postseason. In all, members of the Yankees have won the award sixteen times. Two players, Sandy Koufax and Jack Morris, have won the award twice. (Full list...)

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Nosferatu is a 1922 silent German expressionist horror vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town. Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Orlok. Although those changes are often represented as a defense against accusations of copyright infringement, the original German intertitles acknowledged Dracula as the source. Even with several details altered, Stoker's widow Florence sued over the adaptation's copyright violation, and a court ruling ordered that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, several prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre. Film credit: F. W. Murnau Recently featured: Oxybelis aeneus Le droit d'aînesse Lower Manhattan Archive More featured pictures

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