2011 Golden Spirit Award Nominees
by Gen on Nov.11, 2011 @ 2:42 am, under NPB
Nominees for the 2011 Golden Spirit Award (Japan's version of the Roberto Clemente Award) were posted by Sports Hochi on Wednesday. The final winner will be announced on 11/15.
Golden Spirit Award Nominees
| Player ENG | Player JPN | Team | |
| 内海 哲也 | Utsumi, Tetsuya | YOM | Has been donating backpacks to kids since 2008. |
| 村田 修一 | Murata, Shuichi | YOK | Has been donating money for each HR he hits to help sick kids and their families. Has also invited families with kids currently in NICUs, or kids that were in NICUs in the past, to games at Yokohama Stadium. |
| 桧山進次郎 | Hiyama, Shinjiro | HAN | Has invited 300 kids to games at Koshien for the last 10 years. Has also spent time visiting various children's care facilities. |
| 石井 琢朗 | Ishii, Takuro | HIR | Has been visiting kids at various hospitals each year. |
| 宮本 慎也 | Miyamoto, Shinya | YAK | Has been donating money towards facilities that raise guide dogs since 2008. |
| 嶋 基宏 | Shima, Motohiro | RAK | Has been involved in a number of projects to help support the rebuilding of northern Japan after the March 11 earthquake / tsunami. |
| 山崎 武司 | Yamasaki, Takeshi | RAK | Has donated money to social welfare programs based on HR totals since 2007. Also donated money to Miyagi prefecture and Kurihara, Miyagi after the Iwate-Miyagi Nairuku earthquake in 2008. Has also been visiting kids at hospitals since 2010. |
| 今江 敏晃 | Imae, Toshiaki | LOT | Has been involved with the Gunma Atom, a baseball team for disabled players since 2006. Has also been visiting kids at a hospital since 2009, invited families with sick kids to games at QVC Marine since 2009, and donated money to a children's cancer fund for every RBI he collects since 2010. |
| 田中 賢介 | Tanaka, Kensuke | HAM | Has been involved with the pink ribbon campaign (breast cancer awareness) by donating one exmanation for each fielding opportunity he records since 2008. Has also donated money to the March 11 earthquake / tsunami relief efforts. |
| 稲葉 篤紀 | Inaba, Atsunori | HAM | Has been donating medical supplies for children in Hokkaido. Has also donated relay race batons to schools in Hokkaido and donated his 2011 All-Star MVP Award money to a children's sports group in Miyagi. |
| 石井 裕也 | Ishii, Yuya | HAM | Invites 120 people that have the same kind of hearing impairment he has to games each year. |
| 小久保裕紀 | Kokubo, Hiroki | SOF | Has been providing support for relief / reconstruction efforts in northern Japan. |
| 西 勇輝 | Nishi, Yuki | ORI | Has started donating polio vaccines for every pitch he throws beginning this year. |
| 栗山 巧 | Kuriyama, Takumi | SEI | Has helped round up donations for relief / reconstruction efforts in northern Japan using various methods. |
