THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 17, 1936

• Lou Gehrig voted American League MVP
• New York Yankees icon - MLB baseball

The top of page 13 has a banner  heading: "Second 'Most Valuable' Player Award Bolsters Gehrig's All-Time star Rating" with subheads and nice photo of Gehrig. (see images) Best to have in this NYC publication.
Complete with all 36 pages, rag edition, a little spine wear, nice condition.

Background: Lou Gehrig’s selection as the American League Most Valuable Player on October 16, 1936, stands out as a historic milestone, reflecting both peak-era athletic dominance and an exceptional award output from an iconic season. Gehrig powered the New York Yankees to a World Series title while putting up monstrous numbers—.354 batting average, 49 home runs, 152 RBIs, and a major-league-leading 167 runs, .478 on-base percentage, and .696 slugging percentage—yet the ultimate rarity of this triumph lies in its historical rarity within his career. Despite producing one of the most consistently dominant offensive runs in baseball history, this marked only Gehrig’s second and final official AL MVP award (his first coming in 1927). His individual trophy count was severely constrained by strict rules in the 1920s that barred former winners from repeated recognition, coupled with stiff competition from teammates like Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, making this 1936 honor one of the exceptionally rare instances where voters officially crowned "The Iron Horse" at the absolute apex of his legendary career.