page_title: Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: Lou Gehrig Memorial Award / Winners
caption_attribution_description: American professional baseball player Cal Ripken practices his swing before a game at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, in 1993; by Rick Dikeman.
context_page_description: The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to a Major League Baseball player who best exhibits the character and integrity of Lou Gehrig, both on the field and off it. The award was created by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity in honor of Gehrig, who was a member of the fraternity at Columbia University. It was first presented in 1955, fourteen years after Gehrig's death. The award's purpose is to recognize a player's exemplary contributions in "both his community and philanthropy." The bestowal of the award is overseen by the headquarters of the Phi Delta Theta in Oxford, Ohio, and the name of each winner is inscribed onto the Lou Gehrig Award plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. It is the only MLB award conferred by a fraternity.
  Twenty-four winners of the Lou Gehrig Memorial Award are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The inaugural winner was Alvin Dark. Curt Schilling and Shane Victorino received the award for working with the ALS Association and raising money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The disease took Gehrig's life and is eponymously known as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
caption: Cal Ripken, Jr., the 1992 winner, surpassed Gehrig's record for consecutive games played three years later.[18]
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