2021 Roberto Clemente Award Voting Open

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2021 Roberto Clemente Award Voting Open

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Roberto Clemente Award Voting
All 30 nominees for the 2021 Roberto Clemente Award -- one per club, including 18 first-timers -- were announced by Major League Baseball on Tuesday. Considered baseball's most prestigious individual honor for Major Leaguers, the Clemente Award annually recognizes the MLB player who best represents the game through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.

Beginning today, fans can vote for the Roberto Clemente Award via mlb.com/clemente21 (English) and LasMayores.com/clemente21 (Spanish), through the end of the regular season on Oct. 3. The winner of the fan vote will count as one vote among those cast by a blue ribbon panel that will select the league-wide winner of the award.
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Cardinals nominee:

Paul Goldschmidt
This is the sixth time Goldschmidt has been nominated for the Roberto Clemente award and his first time since joining St. Louis, looking to join Adam Wainwright (2020 winner) and Yadier Molina (‘18) among current Cards to have received the honor. Like each of Goldschmidt’s prior nominations, this one is for a potpourri of charitable causes, including several that he’s been able to take off with now that he's fully entrenched in the St. Louis market. Chief among them is his commitment to pediatric cancer patients, with Goldschmidt and his wife, Amy, being dedicated supporters of the Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children. They have continued such efforts with visits to children in St. Louis hospitals and work with the Make-A-Wish foundation. (The Goldschmidts used to visit Phoenix Children’s Hospital so frequently that they received a permanent visitor’s pass.) Last year, Goldschmidt made a donation to Convoy of Hope, a faith-based nonprofit organization that provided a full tractor-trailer of food and supplies to the St. Louis community. He has also been very involved in Wainwright’s nonprofit, Big League Impact, which connects Major Leaguers with charitable causes around the world, as well as Goldy’s Golden Ticket program, which has brought nearly 100 deserving children to Cardinals games so far in 2021.

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