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Albert Pujols Wins Phi Delta Theta's Lou Gehrig Award
 Albert
Pujols, of the St. Louis Cardinals, has won this year’s Lou Gehrig
Memorial Award, sponsored by the Phi Delta Theta International
Fraternity, headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. The award is presented
annually by Phi Delta Theta to a Major League Baseball player who best
exemplifies the giving character of Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig, a member
of the Fraternity’s Columbia University chapter. The award was first
presented in 1955 and is permanently maintained at the National Baseball
Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
A team of representatives from the Phi Delta Theta Association will
present the award to Pujols at Busch Stadium on September 28th when the
Cardinals take on the Pittsburgh Pirates at 7:15 PM.
“While the list of Lou Gehrig Award winners has always read as the who’s
who of baseball, in recent history I don’t believe there has been a
winner such as Albert who truly embodies Lou Gehrig on and off the
field,” says Sean Wagner, spokesman for the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
Committee and Associate Executive Vice President of Phi Delta Theta,
“They both played first base, were All-Stars, league MVPs, and World
Series Champions while also serving as a champions for their
communities. We are proud to honor Albert and to have his name added to
a plaque in Cooperstown well in advance to his sure-fire induction into
the Hall of Fame.”
Pujols’s Gehrig Award win comes amidst another all-star and MVP-quality
season in the midst of the Cardinals pennant chase. With 39 homers and
104 RBIs already this year, he has extended his record of 30 homers
& 100 RBIs to a tenth consecutive season, a feat only matched by two
other players in history. He is currently the active league leader in
career batting average (.331) and slugging percentage (.625). In only
ten seasons of play, Pujols ranks 47th in all-time home runs and
recorded his 400th career home run earlier this year.
While Pujols is an MVP on the field, he is also revered as one off the
field. Pujols, whose daughter Isabella has Down syndrome, created the
Pujols Foundation in 2005 to support individuals with the disease and
their families. Since then, the foundation has served more than 500
families affected by Down syndrome in the greater St. Louis area, and
through its “High Five” program, the Pujols Foundation has enabled
adults with the disease to become more active members of the St. Louis
community. The Pujols Foundation also has an international outreach,
providing dental care and improving living conditions for children in
Haiti and in his home country, the Dominican Republic.
Pujols is the 6th member of the Cardinals to win the Gehrig Award, more than any other club in Major League Baseball.
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