Gordon Honored for Community Service

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Alex Gordon has emerged as one of the best all-around players in Major League Baseball. He's also working on being one of its best all-around people.

The outfielder -- who helped lead the Kansas City Royals to the club's first American League pennant in 29 years and stood on third base, 90 feet from scoring the tying run, as the Royals lost in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series to the San Francisco Giants -- made more history

Thursday afternoon when he received the 50th Hutch Award for outstanding community service at the annual luncheon at Safeco Field.

The Hutch Award, a national honor presented by the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has been given every year since 1965 in honor of Major League player and manager Fred Hutchinson, who died of cancer a year earlier at the age of 45, and its list of honorees reads like a Hall of Fame roster.

Winners have included Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, Carl Yastrzemski, Pete Rose, Joe Torre, Willie McCovey, Willie Stargell, Lou Brock, George Brett and Johnny Bench.

Now Gordon joins that prestigious list, and the recognition is well-deserved. Gordon, whose mother, Leslie, is a two-time breast cancer survivor, has dedicated much of his time off the field, along with his wife, Jamie, to improving the lives of others. He has been a supporter of Alex's Lemonade Stand for eight years, and with his help, the regional foundation effort has raised more than $1 million for pediatric cancer research and has funded grants at Children's Mercy Hospital, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

 

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Alex Gordon has emerged as one of the best all-around players in Major League Baseball. He's also working on being one of its best all-around people.

The outfielder -- who helped lead the Kansas City Royals to the club's first American League pennant in 29 years and stood on third base, 90 feet from scoring the tying run, as the Royals lost in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series to the San Francisco Giants -- made more history

Thursday afternoon when he received the 50th Hutch Award for outstanding community service at the annual luncheon at Safeco Field.

The Hutch Award, a national honor presented by the Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has been given every year since 1965 in honor of Major League player and manager Fred Hutchinson, who died of cancer a year earlier at the age of 45, and its list of honorees reads like a Hall of Fame roster.

Winners have included Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, Carl Yastrzemski, Pete Rose, Joe Torre, Willie McCovey, Willie Stargell, Lou Brock, George Brett and Johnny Bench.

Now Gordon joins that prestigious list, and the recognition is well-deserved. Gordon, whose mother, Leslie, is a two-time breast cancer survivor, has dedicated much of his time off the field, along with his wife, Jamie, to improving the lives of others. He has been a supporter of Alex's Lemonade Stand for eight years, and with his help, the regional foundation effort has raised more than $1 million for pediatric cancer research and has funded grants at Children's Mercy Hospital, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

 

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Always has been a class act..........