Commissioner\'s Historic Achievement Award

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Commissioner\'s Historic Achievement Award is awarded by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball to a group or person who has made a "major impact on the sport" of baseball. It is not an annual award; rather, the Commissioner presents the trophy at his discretion. The trophy is a gold baseball sitting atop a cylindrical silver base, created by Tiffany & Co. The award has been presented twelve times by Commissioner Bud Selig: ten times to players, once to a team, and once to a non-player. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were the first to receive the award for their parts in the 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase. The most recent recipient is Ken Griffey, Jr. (2011), who received the award in part for his role as an ambassador of baseball. The 2001 Seattle Mariners won the award as a team for posting a 116-46 record one season after losing Alex Rodriguez to the Texas Rangers. Roberto Clemente, the 2006 awardee, is the only player to receive the award posthumously; his award was accepted by his wife, Vera. Dannoe izdanie predstavlyaet soboj kompilyatsiyu svedenij, nahodyaschihsya v svobodnom dostupe v srede Internet v tselom, i v informatsionnom setevom resurse "Vikipediya" v chastnosti. Sobrannaya po chastotnym zaprosam ukazannoj tematiki, dannaya kompilyatsiya postroena po printsipu podbora blizkih informatsionnyh ssylok, ne imeet samostoyatelnogo syuzheta, ne soderzhit nikakih analiticheskih materialov, vyvodov, otsenok moralnogo, eticheskogo, politicheskogo, religioznogo i mirovozzrencheskogo haraktera v otnoshenii glavnoj tematiki, predstavlyaya soboj isklyuchitelno faktologicheskij material. This book was created using print-on-demand technology.