Arthur C. Vance

(1891-1961) lived in Cowles, Webster County, and in Hastings. Baseball pitcher, led National League in strikeouts for seven consecutive seasons, won the initial Most Valuable Player Award in the National League in 1924, became the highest-paid pitcher by the end of the 1920s, was inducted into National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. Consult American National Biography, Vol 22 (1999) 162-163 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 3 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 583-585.

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