The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is a award created by the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity to recognize the former Major League Baseball player Lou Gehrig. It is giving to players who best similarise the former Yankee great. Since when the award was created in 1955, the name of each person who won it has been placed on a Lou Gehrig Award plaque, located at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. ... Phi Delta Theta (ΦÎÎ) is an international fraternity founded in 1848 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ... Henry Louis Gehrig (born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig; June 19, 1903 â June 2, 1941) was a Major League first baseman who played his entire career for the New York Yankees. ... See also: 1954 in sports, other events of 1955, 1956 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Auto Racing NASCAR Championship - Tim Flock AAA Racing: Bob Sweikert won the Indianapolis 500 Bob Sweikert won the season championship Formula One Championship - Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina 24 hours of... The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, United States, is a semi-official museum operated by private interests that serves as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in North America, the display of baseball-related... Cooperstown is a village located in Otsego County, New York and is the County Seat. ...