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Legacy Awards honor present and past
- Updated: December 29, 2016
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum announced its annual Legacy Award winners Wednesday, honoring the Major Leagues’ top 2016 performers with awards named for Negro Leagues legends.
The Red Sox’s Mookie Betts and the Cubs’ Kris Bryant took home the Oscar Charleston Legacy Award, given to each league’s Most Valuable Player. Charleston played from 1915-41 and was called “Willie Mays before there was ever a Willie Mays” by Buck O’Neil, MLB’s first African-American coach. Charleston was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976.
Betts was one of the most exciting young players in baseball last season, batting .318/.363/.534 with 31 home runs, 26 stolen bases, 113 RBIs and 122 runs for the American League East champs. He became the first player aged 23 or younger with 200 hits, 30 homers and 100 RBIs in a season since Albert Pujols in 2003.
Bryant, aged 24 last season, was just as explosive in the National League. He …
