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Date Posted: 11:36:36 10/23/02 Wed
Author: Kathy
Subject: YaY Jimmy!

and... Stay Jimmy!

Thome wins Clemente award

10/23/02

Paul Hoynes
Cleveland Plain Dealer Reporter


San Francisco- Andrea Thome looked at her husband an hour before he received the Roberto Clemente award yesterday at Pacific Bell Park and said, "Jimmy you weren't this nervous before Game 7 of the 1997 World Series."

Thome, the second Indian to win the prestigious award, agreed.

"My father and brother told me when I was young what kind of player Roberto Clemente was," said Thome. "They told me he was the best player who ever lived. But I really didn't know what kind of man he was."

The Clemente award is presented annually to the major-league player who mirrors Clemente's performance on the field and in the community. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Clemente's death. He died when a plane carrying humanitarian supplies to Nicaragua crashed after taking off from his native Puerto Rico.

A panel selected Thome from a field of 30 candidates. Each big-league team nominates a player.

Thome was cited for his community efforts in Cleveland and his hometown of Peoria, Ill. Thome and his wife, Andrea, have spent the last five years collecting and distributing toys to youth groups at Christmas time dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus.

Thome, as co-chairman of the United Way Softball Slam, has helped raise $200,000 for the organization's youth programs. He has helped raise more than $200,000 for Children's Hospital in Peoria, Ill., over the last six years at his annual charity auction of baseball memorabilia.

Thome received $25,000 from sponsor John Hancock Financial Services for winning the award. The money was donated to the Steve Palermo Chapter of the National Paralysis Foundation in Leawood, Kan. Thome put the donation in the name of his nephew, Brandon Thome, who was partially paralyzed in a diving accident two years ago.

John Hancock made another donation of $30,000 in Thome's name to Roberto Clemente Sports City in Puerto Rico.

Andre Thornton is the only other Indian to receive this award. Thornton received his in 1979.

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