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The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to a
Major League Baseball (MLB) player who best exhibits the character and integrity of
Lou Gehrig , both
on the field and off it.
[3] The award was created by the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity in honor of Gehrig, who was a member of the fraternity at
Columbia University . It was first presented in
1955 , fourteen years after Gehrig's death. The award's purpose is to recognize a player's exemplary contributions in "both his community and philanthropy."
[3] The bestowal of the award is overseen by the headquarters of the Phi Delta Theta in
Oxford, Ohio ,
[4] and the name of each winner is inscribed onto the Lou Gehrig Award plaque in the
Baseball Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, New York . It is the only MLB award conferred by a
fraternity .
[3]
Twenty-eight winners of the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award are members of the
National Baseball Hall of Fame .
[5] The inaugural winner was
Alvin Dark .
[6]
Curt Schilling (1995) and
Shane Victorino (2008) received the award for working with the
ALS Association and raising money for
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The disease took Gehrig's life and is eponymously known as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
[7]
[8]
Mike Timlin won the award in 2007 for his efforts in raising awareness and finding a cure for ALS, which took his mother's life in 2002.
[9]
Winners of the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award have undertaken a variety of different causes. Many winners, including
Rick Sutcliffe ,
[10]
Barry Larkin ,
[11]
Mark McGwire ,
[12]
Todd Stottlemyre
[13] and
Derek Jeter ,
[14] worked with children in need. Jeter assisted children and teenagers in avoiding
drug and
alcohol addiction
[14] through his
Turn 2 Foundation ,
[15] while Sutcliffe visited disabled children in hospitals
[10] and bestowed college scholarships to underprivileged juveniles through his foundation.
[16] Other winners devoted their work to aiding individuals who had a specific illness, such as
Albert Pujols , whose daughter suffers from
Down syndrome , and who devoted the
Pujols Family Foundation to helping those with the disorder,
[17] and
Ryan Zimmerman , who established the ziMS Foundation to raise money for
multiple sclerosis , the disease which afflicts his mother.
[18]
[19]
Winners
Alvin Dark won the inaugural Lou Gehrig Memorial Award in 1955.
Cal Ripken Jr. , the 1992 winner, surpassed Gehrig's record for
consecutive games played three years later.
[20]
Derek Jeter , the 2010 winner, broke Gehrig's record for most hits as a member of the
New York Yankees the year before.
[21]
Paul Goldschmidt is the most recent player to win the award.
Key
Year
Links to the article about the corresponding baseball year
Player
Name of the player
Team
The player's team at the time he won the award
Position
The player's
position at the time he won the award
†
Member of the
Baseball Hall of Fame
‡
Player is active
See also
References
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"Paul Goldschmidt named winner of Lou Gehrig Memorial Award for 'giving character' " . Phi Delta Theta. 5 March 2024. Retrieved March 5, 2024 .
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