Shane Victorino, of the Philadelphia Phillies, has won this year’s Lou Gehrig Memorial Award, sponsored by the Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity, headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. The award is presented annually by Phi Delta Theta to the Major League Baseball player who best exemplifies the giving character of Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig, who was a member of the Fraternity’s Columbia University chapter. The award was first presented in 1955 and is permanently maintained at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

A team of representatives from Phi Delta Theta and the Philadelphia Chapter of the ALS Association presented the award to Victorino at Citizens Bank Ballpark on July 4th when the Phillies took on and won against the New York Mets. The presentation was a part of “4ALS”, a day celebrated throughout Major League Baseball to honor the 70th anniversary of Gehrig’s “Luckiest Man” speech and to raise awareness for ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.