NEW YORK (AP) – Adam Wainwright, long-time pitcher of st. Louis Cardinals, won the Roberto Clemente Award, awarded through the major leagues for his participation in the network and his philanthropy.
Wainwright’s Big League Impact Foundation and artist Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation have partnered with Texas pitcher Kyle Gibson on a Home Plate project and raised the budget for more than 150 primary league players who have donated approximately $5. 8 million to 9 four charities. more than four million foods to prevent starvation in young people of the coronavirus pandemic and nearly 8 million foods in total.
Wainwright also built Ferrier Village High School in Haiti, which opened for the 2019-2020 school year while partnering with Water Mission to build a drinking water formula for the community; financed the structure of a drinking water formula that serves more than 15,000 people in Honduras; bought 11 acres in Ethiopia for the site of a clinic and a dairy and farm; partnered with Crisis Aid International to feed young people in Africa and help victims of sex trafficking; and works with Crisis Aid to provide weekly food to 3,000 families, adding two hundred families consistent with the year in South St. Louis. Louis.
“This is the greatest honor of my entire career and it will be when I rest my head for the last time,” Wainwright said at a conference call. “That doesn’t stop me now. These players are going to hear more from me. “I’ll be in his ear: “Hey, let’s do this. Let’s do that, come on.
Wainwright, a 39-year-old right, is a lazy agent after spending 15 seasons in his league with the Cardinals. He is three times All-Star with a 167-98 record and 3. 38 ERA.
“Sometimes you have to tell other people what you’re doing to motivate others to do other things too,” Wainwright said. “That’s not why we do it, to win a prize or a trophy of some kind, but it’s great to be identified by it. ‘
The Cardinals’ previous winners come with Lou Brock (1975), Ozzie Smith (1995), Albert Pujols (2008), Carlos Beltron (2013) and Yadier Molina (2018).
The award was announced in the World Series, but this year was postponed until Monday due to the pandemic.
Wainwright’s idea of donor collection at the base level in 2013, when the base is just beginning.
“We’ve noticed it affects, see how food has helped people. We’ve noticed how water has replaced people’s lives and how medical services have replaced people’s lives,” he said. “And to see him in person, he’s powerful. “
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