Gardner takes home 2009 Dawson Award
ByVia PeteAbe, new center fielder Brett Gardner was named this year’s winner of the James P. Dawson Award, given annually to the most outstanding rookie in Yankees’ Spring Training camp. He’ll be honored before tomorrow’s game against the Phillies, the Yanks’ final game in Florida of the preseason. Let’s hope things go better for Gardner than they have for the previous winners, which includes Shelley Duncan, Kei Igawa, Eric Duncan and Bubba Crosby.
Update by Ben: While we’re on the subject of Spring Training awards, MLB announced today that the Yankees along with the Astros have captured the Bobby Murcer Award. The Yanks earned these honors by donating the most money in the A.L. to the Baseball Assistance team, an organization devoted to ensuring the financial security of former baseball players and coaches. B.A.T. raised $1.5 million this spring, an increase of nearly seven percent over last year. For more on B.A.T., check out its website.
Nick Johnson was also a former winner.
Congrats to Brett
They give out awards for games that don’t count?
BUB-BA CROS-BY! CLAP, CLAP, CLAP-CLAP-CLAP!!!
Dude was a beast even if he sucked. I wish he still had a job in the majors.
He has a chance.
http://www.ehow.com/how_206963.....eball.html
If they ever allow aluminum bats, he might be able to make a comeback (although I’m not sure comeback is the right word because it assumes that the player had reached a level that he might be able to achieve again).
Previous winners include Willie Randolph, Don Mattingly, Al Leiter, Jorge Posada, Alphonso Soriano and tommiesmithjohncarlos himself, Gerald Williams.
http://thunderbaseball.wordpre.....n-award-2/
99 & 00 none selected….you know the farm is terrible when they can’t come up with a winner for this award.
Thank you for recognizing my awesomeness.
Sincerely,
“Ice”
Mark Hutton! That’s a good one. Some kid named Derek Jeter was also in camp in 1996. He never amounted to much though. Hutton went on to fame and fortune.
Looking at previous award winners, someone might say that you don’t want to win that award.
What is bubba up to these days anyways?
What is bubba up to these days anyways?
[Insert resounding silence here.]
http://tinyurl.com/cs3g8r
From that link…http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_n7HmxKmZkXk/SFXZgA_Ud4I/AAAAAAAAA-E/bjnYv9_d6YQ/s400/homeplate.jpg
look at what Jorge is trying to do and look at the sinister smile on his face.
What a dick!! lol
Can you actually retire from something when no one will employ you in the first place?
That’s one of those imponderables, like if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound.
yes, i am officially announcing my retirement from the world of male modeling.
sorry ladies.