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PREGAME: Biggio wins Roberto Clemente Award

By JOE McDONALD
Journal Sports Writer

DENVER -- Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros has been named the recipient of the Roberto Clemente Award for outstanding play and devoted work in the community. Major League Baseball began presenting this award in 1971, but renamed it in honor of Clemente in 1973. The legendary Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder died in a plane crash on his way to assist earthquake victims in Nicaragua on New Year's Eve 1972.

Biggio became the national spokesperson for the Sunshine Kids Foundation in the early 1990s and he has helped the organization raise nearly $2.5 million for the non-profit organization dedicated to children with cancer.

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