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Roger Clemens Award
After sixteen years, it was decided last fall (2003) to
retire the Rotary Smith Award, which honored College Baseball's Player
of the Year. The founders of the award (The Greater Houston Sports
Association) , who had joined forces in 1996 with the Rotary Club to
try to see the award grow, then decided to focus on the creation of a
new award. Given the retirement of Roger Clemens, it only seemed
natural that an award in his name, selecting the finest college pitcher
in the country, was a perfect fit.
In its inaugural year, The Roger Clemens Award will be
presented to the nation's top college pitcher at the conclusion of a
gala dinner in Houston on July 15, 2004. All Division I head baseball
coaches will take part in the voting for the honor, in addition to a
selected panel of national media and all past winners of the Rotary
Smith Award, which was retired after the 2003 dinner by the committee
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"Roger Clemens has become synonymous with excellence
in pitching at the professional level, as evidenced by his six Cy Young
Awards. In addition to being a fabulous baseball player at every level
in which he has participated, his passion for excellence is
unsurpassed. He is mindful of giving back to a sport and a community he
loves. With his college and professional resume, his name is most
worthy and deserving in recognition of the most outstanding college
pitcher. The Roger Clemens Award most certainly will become the college
equivalent of the Cy Young, therefore becoming one of the most coveted
in college baseball." CBPY Board Member Ray Mitchell (February 14, 2004) |
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