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Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals received the 2008 Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to the player that excels on the field and in community service.
“It doesn’t matter what you do on the field, it’s what you do off the field and the lives you touch,” he said. “It takes a lot of hard work, but it comes from the heart.”
Each major league team nominates one player. The winner is chosen from a committee that includes Vera Clemente, Roberto’s widow.
The Pujols Family Foundation assists young adults with Down syndrome. His interest began with the birth of a daughter with Down syndrome. He also works with the Boys & Girls Club of America and the Ronald McDonald House.
Previous Clemente Award winners include Hall of Famers Ozzie Smith, Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn. Craig Biggio won the award last year.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
From The Houston Chronicle's World Series Notes:
