page_title: Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award / Winners
caption_attribution_description: Mariano Rivera
context_page_description: The Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball player "whose on-field performance and contributions to his community inspire others to higher levels of achievement." The award was created by the Major League Baseball Players' Association and was presented to the inaugural winner – Mark McGwire – in 1997 as the "Man of the Year Award". Three years later, it was renamed in honor of Marvin Miller, the first executive director of the MLBPA. The award forms part of the Players Choice Awards.
  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, and Curtis Granderson are the only players to win the Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award on multiple occasions.
caption: Mariano Rivera won the award in 2013, the final year of his career.[21]
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