Sports Trivia: Names of the Pro Sports Awards

DonkeyKongSr · #1 11-30-2007, 06:04 PM

Answers below. Correct me if I'm wrong on any. There's a few that I couldn't find anything on, but believe they must have a name (with ??? after them). I may have mixed up Trophy and Award a few times. And yes, this is ridiculously hard on a lot of these.

MLB
Champion – Commissioner’s Trophy
NL Champion - National League Championship Trophy???
AL Champion - American League Championship Trophy???
MVP - Baseball Writers Association of America's Most Valuable Player
World Series MVP – World Series MVP
NLCS MVP – Warren Giles Trophy
ALCS MVP – William Harridge Trophy
Defensive Player by Position – Rawlings Gold Glove Award
Hitter by Position – Silver Slugger Award
Top Hitter in the League – Hank Aaron Award
NL/AL ROY – Jackie Robinson Award
NL/AL Manager - BWAA Manager of the Year Award
NL/AL Pitcher – Cy Young Award
NL/AL Relief Pitcher – Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award
Left Handed Pitcher – Warren Spahn Award
Designated Hitter – Edgar Martinez Award
Exceptional Community Service – Branch Rickey Award
Character & charitable Contributions to the Community – Roberto Clemente Award
Broadcaster Making Major Contributions to Baseball – Ford C. Frick Award
Amateur Player – Golden Spikes Award

NBA
Champion – Larry O’Brien Trophy
Western Conference Champion – Western Conference Championship Trophy???
Eastern Conference Champion – Eastern Conference Championship Trophy???
MVP – Maurice Podoloff Trophy
Finals MVP – NBA Finals MVP???
Coach – Red Auerbach Award
ROY – Eddie Gottlieb Award
Defensive POY – Defensive Player of the Year Award
Sixth Man – Sixth Man Award
Most Improved – Most Improved Player Award
Citizenship – J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award
Sportsmanship – Joe Dumars Award

NFL
Champion – Vince Lombardi Trophy
NFC Champion – George Halas Trophy
AFC Champion – Lamar Hunt Trophy
MVP – Main one is Associated Press MVP but also many other such as NFL/Miller Lite POY, Pro Football Writers Association MVP
Super Bowl MVP – Pete Rozelle Trophy
Offensive Player – AP
Defensive Player – AP
Coach – AP
Kicker – Pro Football Weekly Golden Toe Award
Comeback Player – AP

NHL
Champion – Stanley Cup
Western Conference Champion – Clarence S. Campbell Bowl
Eastern Conference Champion – Prince of Wales Trophy
Best Regular Season Record – Presidents Trophy
MVP – Hart Memorial Trophy
NHLPA Most Outstanding Player – Lester B. Pearson Award
Playoff MVP – Conn Smythe Trophy
Top Point Scorer – Art Ross Trophy
Top Goal Scorer – Maurice Richard Trophy
ROY – Calder Memorial Trophy
Defensive Forward – Frank J. Selke Trophy
Defenseman – James Norris Trophy
Goalie – Vezina Trophy
Goalies on Team with Least Goals against – William M. Jennings Trophy
Coach – Jack Adams Award
Qualities of Perseverance & Sportsmanship – Bill Masterson Trophy
Gentlemanly Conduct – Lady Byng Trophy
Leadership & Humanitarian Contribution – King Clancy Memorial Trophy

Needle77 · #2 11-30-2007, 06:12 PM

Damn, all I got was Rawlings Gold Glove, Silver Slugger, Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Rolaids Relief(hank aaron, Rolaids, and rawlings thanks to MLB The Show), Roberto Clemente(delgado won it last year), Lombardi Trophy, Pete Rozelle Trophy, Stanley Cup, and Venzia(thanks Brodeur).

So yeah, Video games led to me knowing about 1/3 of what I actually knew.

tuq · #3 11-30-2007, 06:19 PM

I always found the NHL nice guy one easy to remember because it's named after a chick, and nice guys are pussies.

g-bebe · #4 11-30-2007, 09:09 PM

I haven't looked at DKSr's answers, though I'm pretty sure I could do all the hockey ones. The other sports, with the exception of the real common ones (i.e. Lombardi trophy), are all frickin' tough for me

kidcolin · #5 11-30-2007, 09:37 PM

some of them, like sixth man and most improved, were really frickin' dumb to list if they're really just "Sixth Man Award" and "Most Improved Player Award".

Also, I knew way more baseball ones than I gave myself credit for. For some reason I was thinking just of trophy names.

MicroBob · #6 11-30-2007, 10:14 PM

Quite a few names among the college sports awards too. Beginning with Heisman obviously.