Lou Gehrig Memorial Award on Baseball Almanac

Lou Gehrig Memorial Award

The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award was established by Lou Gehrig's college fraternity, Phi Delta Theta at Columbia University. The award is presented annually to the Major League baseball player who both on and off the field best exemplifies the character of Lou Gehrig.

"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season." - Lou Gehrig in Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference (Cal Ripken, Jr. & Donald Thomas Phillips, Gotham Press, 2007, Page 67)

Lou Gehrig Memorial Award In Chronological Order
Year	Name(s)	Team	League	Position	PR
1955	Alvin Dark	New York Giants	NL	SS	--
1956	Pee Wee Reese	Brooklyn Dodgers	NL	SS	--
1957	Stan Musial	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	1B	--
1958	Gil McDougald	New York Yankees	AL	2B	--
1959	Gil Hodges	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	1B	--
1960	Dick Groat	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	SS	--
1961	Warren Spahn	Milwaukee Braves	NL	P	--
1962	Robin Roberts	Baltimore Orioles	AL	P	--
1963	Bobby Richardson	New York Yankees	AL	2B	--
1964	Ken Boyer	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	3B	--
1965	Vern Law	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	P	--
1966	Brooks Robinson	Baltimore Orioles	AL	3B	--
1967	Ernie Banks	Chicago Cubs	NL	1B	--
1968	Al Kaline	Detroit Tigers	AL	RF	--
1969	Pete Rose	Cincinnati Reds	NL	RF	--
1970	Hank Aaron	Atlanta Braves	NL	RF	--
1971	Harmon Killebrew	Minnesota Twins	AL	1B	--
1972	Wes Parker	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	1B	--
1973	Ron Santo	Chicago Cubs	NL	3B	--
1974	Willie Stargell	Pittsburgh Pirates	NL	LF	--
1975	Johnny Bench	Cincinnati Reds	NL	C	--
1976	Don Sutton	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	P	--
1977	Lou Brock	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	LF	--
1978	Don Kessinger	Chicago White Sox	AL	SS	--
1979	Phil Niekro	Atlanta Braves	NL	P	--
1980	Tony Perez	Boston Red Sox	AL	1B	--
1981	Tommy John	New York Yankees	AL	P	--
1982	Ron Cey	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	3B	--
1983	Mike Schmidt	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	3B	--
1984	Steve Garvey	San Diego Padres	NL	1B	--
1985	Dale Murphy	Atlanta Braves	NL	CF	--
1986	George Brett	Kansas City Royals	AL	3B	--
1987	Rick Sutcliffe	Chicago Cubs	NL	P	--
1988	Buddy Bell	Cincinnati Reds	NL	3B	--
1989	Ozzie Smith	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	SS	--
1990	Glenn Davis	Houston Astros	NL	1B	--
1991	Kent Hrbek	Minnesota Twins	AL	1B	--
1992	Cal Ripken, Jr.	Baltimore Orioles	AL	SS	--
1993	Don Mattingly	New York Yankees	AL	1B	--
1994	Barry Larkin	Cincinnati Reds	NL	SS	--
1995	Curt Schilling	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	P	--
1996	Brett Butler	Los Angeles Dodgers	NL	CF	--
1997	Paul Molitor	Minnesota Twins	AL	DH	--
1998	Tony Gwynn	San Diego Padres	NL	RF	--
1999	Mark McGwire	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	1B	--
2000	Todd Stottlemyre	Arizona Diamondbacks	NL	P	--
2001	John Franco	New York Mets	NL	P	--
2002	Danny Graves	Cincinnati Reds	NL	P	--
2003	Jamie Moyer	Seattle Mariners	AL	P	--
2004	Jim Thome	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	1B	--
2005	John Smoltz	Atlanta Braves	NL	P
2006	Trevor Hoffman	San Diego Padres	NL	P
2007	Mike Timlin	Boston Red Sox	AL	P
2008	Shane Victorino	Philadelphia Phillies	NL	CF
2009	Albert Pujols	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	1B
2010	Derek Jeter	New York Yankees	AL	SS	--
2011	Ryan Zimmerman	Washington Nationals	NL	3B
2012	Not Yet Announced^(06-2013)	--	--	--	--
Year	Name(s)	Team	League	Position	PR
Lou Gehrig Memorial Award

Did you know that this was the first & only "officially" sanctioned Major League Baseball award given to ballplayers by a fraternity? Too easy you say? Did you know that the 1995 recipient, Curt Schilling, named his son after Gehrig (Gehrig Schilling)?

Gehrig Award spokesman Sean Wagner has provided Baseball Almanac with the 2010 Press Release — download it today and read exactly why Pujols won.

A breakdown by position for the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award: fourteen pitchers, twelve first basemen, eight shortstops, eight third basemen, four right-fielders, two center-fielders, two left-fielders, two second basemen, one catcher & one designated hitter.

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