page_title: Rawlings Gold Glove Award
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: Rawlings Gold Glove Award / Winners
caption_attribution_description: Greg Maddux
context_page_description: The Rawlings Gold Glove Award, usually referred to as simply the Gold Glove, is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in both the National League and the American League. Winners are determined from voting by the managers and coaches in each league, who are not permitted to vote for their own players. Additionally, a sabermetric component provided by the Society for American Baseball Research accounts for approximately 25 percent of the vote.
  In 1957, the baseball glove manufacturer Rawlings created the Gold Glove Award to commemorate the best fielding performance at each position. Winners receive a glove made from gold lamé-tanned leather and affixed to a walnut base. In the inaugural year, one Gold Glove was awarded to the top fielder at each position in MLB; since 1958, separate awards have been given to the top fielders in each league. Thus, 18 Gold Gloves are normally awarded annually, one at each of the nine fielding positions for each league.
context_section_description: won as a left fielder
  won as a center fielder
  won as a right fielder
caption: Greg Maddux won 18 Gold Gloves, the most of any player.
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