After four near misses, St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols won his first National League Most Valuable Player Award. Ozzie Guillen, who piloted the Chicago White Sox to their first World Series title since 1917, won his first American League Manager of the Year Award.

Chris Carpenter won the National League Cy Young Award for the first time, and Bartolo Colon became the first Angel to win the AL Cy Young Award in 31 years.

Not all of the winners were first-timers, however. The familiar figures of Alex Rodriguez and Bobby Cox walked off with some autumn hardware, but they had to withstand close races at the ballot boxes first.

Here's a look at how it all played out.

NL MVP: After a Rookie of the Year trophy in 2001, numerous other citations and finishing fourth or better in four previous MVP ballots, Pujols finally broke through to win the MVP Award.

Pujols received 18 of the 32 first-place votes and 14 second-place votes for 378 points. Atlanta's Andruw Jones picked up 13 first-place votes, 17 seconds and two thirds for 351 points, while Derrek Lee of the Cubs finished third with one first-place vote, one second and 30 thirds for 263 points.

AL MVP: Rodriguez picked up his second American League Most Valuable Player Award, edging David Ortiz of Boston for the honor. Rodriguez earned 16 first-place votes and 331 points, while Ortiz received 11 first-place votes and 307 points.

NL Cy Young: Carpenter, the Cardinals' first Cy Young Award winner since Bob Gibson in 1970, received 132 points in the 5-3-1 voting system used by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Out of 32 ballots, the right-hander received 19 first-place votes and 12 second-place mentions, with just one voter placing him third.

Florida's Dontrelle Willis, the league leader in wins, finished second and was the only other pitcher named on every ballot. The Marlins lefty received 112 points on 11 first-place votes, 18 second-place and three third-place tallies. Houston's Roger Clemens, who paced the league in ERA (1.87), was a distant third, with 40 points (two first-place, two second-place, 24 third-place).

AL Cy Young: Colon was named on all 28 ballots with 17 first-place votes and 11 second-place votes to easily distance himself from Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera. Twins left-hander Johan Santana finished third. Rivera secured eight first-place votes, with Santana getting three. Cliff Lee, Mark Buehrle, Jon Garland and Kevin Millwood rounded out the voting.

NL Manager of the Year: Cox became the first manager to win the award in consecutive years. The BBWAA has selected Cox as Manager of the Year four times, including the 1985 season, when he was with the Toronto Blue Jays. Despite having led Atlanta to 14 consecutive division titles, his only election with the Braves before last year came in 1991.

Cox received 28 of the 32 first-place votes that were cast, easily outdistancing St. Louis' Tony La Russa, who finished as the runner-up for the second straight season. The two are the winningest active managers in the game. Houston's Phil Garner finished third, while Frank Robinson of Washington came in fourth.

AL Manager of the Year: Guillen, in only his second season as manager, topped Cleveland's Eric Wedge, 105-71. Guillen received 17 first-place votes, five second-place votes and five third-place votes, en route to becoming the first manager from Venezuela to win the award. Tony Pena (2003) and Felipe Alou (1994) are the only other managers from Latin America to win the award.

New York's Joe Torre finished third, followed by Oakland's Ken Macha and Mike Scioscia of the Angels.

NL Rookie of the Year: Philadelphia's Ryan Howard captured the National League Rookie of the Year Award after taking over first base full-time for the injured Jim Thome in early July. Howard finished the season strong, batting .292 with 11 homers and 27 RBIs in 28 games throughout September and October.

AL Rookie of the Year: Huston Street, who emerged as the closing reliever for the Oakland Athletics in the second month of the 2005 season, was named the American League winner of the Rookie of the Year Award.

TOPPS All-Rookie team: Street was one of five unanimous choices, joining Oakland first baseman Dan Johnson, Colorado third baseman Garrett Atkins, Toronto shortstop Russ Adams and Blue Jays lefty Gustavo Chacin.

Others cracking the lineup included White Sox second baseman Tadahito Iguchi, Atlanta outfielder Jeff Francoeur and catcher Brian McCann, Tampa Bay outfielder Jonny Gomes and Houston center fielder Willy Taveras.

Players Choice Awards: Andruw Jones was selected by his peers as the Player of the Year and National League Outstanding Player.

Other honorees included Kansas City's Mike Sweeney, Boston's Ortiz, Colon, Carpenter, Street, Taveras, Jason Giambi of the Yankees and Cincinnati's Ken Griffey Jr.

NL Gold Gloves: Chicago's Greg Maddux won his 15th, while San Francisco's Mike Matheny and Omar Vizquel, Chicago's Lee, Luis Castillo and Mike Lowell of Florida, Andruw Jones of Atlanta, Jim Edmonds of St. Louis and Bobby Abreu of Philadelphia were the other NL winners.

AL Gold Gloves: AL winners included Mark Teixeira and Kenny Rogers of Texas, Jason Varitek of Boston, Orlando Hudson and Vernon Wells of Toronto, Derek Jeter of the Yankees, Eric Chavez of Oakland, Torii Hunter of Minnesota and Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki.

NL Silver Sluggers: Chicago's Lee and Michael Barrett, Jeff Kent of the Dodgers, Morgan Ensberg of Houston, Cincinnati's Felipe Lopez, Atlanta's Andruw Jones, Miguel Cabrera of the Marlins, Carlos Lee of the Brewers and Jason Marquis of St. Louis were winners.

AL Silver Sluggers: Teixeira and Alfonso Soriano of Texas, Rodriguez and Gary Sheffield of the Yankees, Baltimore's Miguel Tejada, Vladimir Guerrero of the Angels, Manny Ramirez, Ortiz and Varitek of Boston were selected.

NL Hank Aaron Award: Andruw Jones of the Braves was the winner.

AL Hank Aaron Award: Ortiz of the Red Sox was honored.

NL Comeback Player of the Year Award: Reds slugger Griffey Jr. was the winner.

AL Comeback Player of the Year Award: New York's Giambi was selected.

Atlanta's John Smoltz was honored as the 2005 Clemente Award winner, and Arizona's Luis Gonzalez was voted the Branch Rickey Award winner.

The DHL Delivery Man of the Year went to Mariano Rivera of the Yankees.