Marvin Miller Man Of The Year Award
In order to determine the winner, each MLB team nominates one of their players, who is selected by their teammates to appear on the ballot. An online vote is conducted among baseball fans in order to reduce the number of candidates to six. MLB players then choose the award winner from among the six finalists. In addition to the award, recipients have $50,000 donated on their behalf to charities of their choice by the MLB Players Trust. John Smoltz, Jim Thome, Michael Young, Curtis Granderson, and Marcus Semien are the only players to win the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award on multiple occasions. Five winners – Paul Molitor, Jim Thome, Smoltz, Chipper Jones and Mariano Rivera – are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Winners of the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award have undertaken a variety of different causes. Many winners, including McGwire, Thome, Smoltz, Mike Sweeney, Torii Hunter, Young, Curtis Granderson and Brandon Inge, worked with children in need. McGwire established a foundation to assist children who were physically or sexually abused, while Inge visited disabled children at the Mott Children's Hospital and donated part of his salary to raise money for a pediatric cancer infusion center. 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 disease, and Jones, who has been raising money for cystic fibrosis since 1996, after meeting an 11-year-old fan who suffered from the disease and who died several weeks after meeting Jones through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Winners
![Paul Molitor in a navy blue baseball jersey with "Twins" written across the chest holding a navy blue cap and smiling.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Paul_Molitor_white_house.jpg/220px-Paul_Molitor_white_house.jpg)
![Michael Young, wearing a blue batting helmet and baseball jersey with the lettering TEXAS across it and the Flag of Texas on the left sleeve, clutches a baseball bat in his left hand and looks towards the left after hitting a baseball.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Michael_Young_on_April_25%2C_2009.jpg/220px-Michael_Young_on_April_25%2C_2009.jpg)
![Mariano Rivera, wearing a grey uniform with the lettering "NEW YORK" across it, with his body facing the right as he prepares to throw a baseball.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Mariano_Rivera_allison_7_29_07.jpg/220px-Mariano_Rivera_allison_7_29_07.jpg)
Year | Links to the article about the corresponding Major League Baseball year |
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Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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
- Roberto Clemente Award
- Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
- Branch Rickey Award
- Baseball awards
- List of Major League Baseball awards