{"id":6881,"date":"2015-11-12T16:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsspeakers360.com\/blog\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:17:29","slug":"pirates-5-time-all-star-andrew-mccutchen-named-2015-roberto-clemente-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsspeakers360.com\/blog\/pirates-5-time-all-star-andrew-mccutchen-named-2015-roberto-clemente-award-winner","title":{"rendered":"Pirates 5 Time All-Star Andrew McCutchen Named 2015 Roberto Clemente Award Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PITTSBURGH, PA. — On Friday, October 30, 2015 Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen<\/a> was named the 2015 Roberto Clemente Award winner in a ceremony at Citi Field prior to Game 3 of the World Series, joining Willie Stargell as just the second Pirates player to win the award. The Commissioner\u2019s Award, given annually to the player who best represented the game of baseball on and off the field, was renamed in 1973 to honor Clemente. Source: Post Gazette.<\/p>\n

McCutchen learned the Roberto Clemente story many years ago, long before being drafted by Clemente\u2019s former team, the Pirates, in 2005. When he was 11 or 12, McCutchen went to a baseball camp in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the city where Clemente was born and raised. There, McCutchen met Manny Sanguillen, the former Pirates catcher who played alongside Clemente, and heard the story of a Hall of Fame outfielder, the pride of Pittsburgh, who died in a New Year\u2019s Eve plane crash in 1972 while on a mission to deliver supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew McCutchen, you are a great ballplayer both on and off the field, and Roberto would have been proud to see you standing up here today,\u201d Clemente\u2019s widow, Vera \u2014 the league\u2019s goodwill ambassador \u2014 said at the ceremony.<\/p>\n