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Votto Wins Lou Marsh Award

OTTAWA- The awards and accolades continue to pour in for Joey Votto (Etobicoke, ON). The 2010 National League MVP has been given the Lou Marsh Award for Canadian Athlete of the Year. Votto becomes the second baseball player to win the award joining Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, BC) who won in 1998.

The award is decided on by a panel of sports writers, reporters and broadcasters and handed out each year by the Toronto Star.

Votto’s MVP season saw him hit .324 with 37 homeruns and 113 RBI’s. He led the Cincinnati Reds to the post season for the first time since 1995 as they won the National League Central division.

Votto beat out an exceptional group of Canadian athletes which included the likes of Sidney Crosby, Georges St. Pierre and Olympic medallists Joannie Rochette, Christine Nesbitt and Alexandre Bilodeau.

In addition the Lou Marsh and MVP awards, Votto also received the Tip O'Neill Award, given to Canada's top baseball player, the Hank Aaron Award which recognizes the top offensive performer in the National League and the George Gross/Toronto Sun Sportsman of the Year award which goes to the athlete that has the most impact on the city of Toronto. Former Blue Jay Roy Halladay is the only other baseball player to win the award.


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