sentences:  He was 16th in the 1948 AL MVP voting.He had another good year in 1949, batting .290 with a .382 on-base percentage and finishing 22nd in the AL MVP voting.The Browns' attendance dropped to 270,000 in 1949 (compared with more than 2 million in New York and Cleveland), and the team was forced to sell their best players to raise $200,000 to make ends meet.