Joey Votto named Canada's top athlete
Major League Baseball player Joey Votto(notes) has been named the recipient of the 2010 Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s top athlete.
The Cincinnati Reds first baseman had 37 home runs, 113 runs batted in and a .324 batting average this season, and was named the National League’s most valuable player. He’s the third Canadian to win baseball’s MVP award, after Larry Walker and Justin Morneau(notes).
Other finalists for the award, which was established in 1936, were Sidney Crosby (who won last year and in 2007), Jonathan Toews, Scott Virtue and Tesse Moir, Georges St-Pierre, Alexandre Bilodeau, Christine Nesbitt and Joannie Rochette.
Silken Laumann chairs the Lou Marsh Award committee, which is made up of journalists and broadcasters representing the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Sun, Canadian Press, TSN, Rogers Sportsnet, CBC Sports, La Presse, Fan 590 and Yahoo! Canada Sports.
