Associated Press

===Baseball===
The AP began its [[Major League Baseball]] Manager of the Year Award in 1959, for a manager in each league.<ref name=APManagerOfYr>[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_mgy2.shtml AP Manager of the Year Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201204555/http://baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_mgy2.shtml |date=February 1, 2010 }}. Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved 2009-09-29. Although the award began in 1959, AP gave a "manager of the year" award in 1950 to Eddie Sawyer of the Philadelphia Phillies.{{Cite news|title=Eddie Sawyer Honored in Baseball Vote|work=Prescott Evening Courier|date=November 8, 1950|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502|page=Section 2, Page 1|access-date=2010-09-16|archive-date=February 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227110618/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502}}</ref> From 1984 to 2000, the award was given to one manager in all of MLB.<ref>In 1959, when the AP began its Manager of the Year Award for a manager in each league, [[The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award|''The Sporting News'' Manager of the Year Award]] (begun in 1936) was for one manager in all of MLB. In 1983, MLB began its own [[Manager of the Year Award]], for a manager in each league. The following year (1984) the AP changed its award to one in all of MLB. In 1986, ''The Sporting News'' changed its award to one for each league.</ref> The winners were chosen by a national panel of AP baseball writers and radio men. The award was discontinued in 2001.<ref name=APManagerOfYr/>