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At the beginning of the 2000 OTB season, the OTB board established
the "Dr. Frank Meisel Sportsmanship Award". This is an award which will
be given to one OTB player each year at our annual banquet. The
recipient will be the player who has received the most acknowledgments
during that season as the "Sportsman Of The Game".
The "Sportsman Of The Game" acknowledgments will be noted for two
players after every game. Each team will choose a player from the
opposing team's bench, and report this after each week's game. An
additional acknowledgment is being solicited, for one player per In this
way, players will be acknowledged in each game while their actions are
fresh in everyone's mind.
Sportsmanship will be judged using Frank Meisel as our example.
Unselfish play, hustle, congratulations to others (either team) for good
play and placing teammates' needs before his own are the typical
qualities we would acknowledge. The team player who shows up to the game
for his teammates' fun above his own is probably the greatest example of
Frank's spirit.
Thanks to Cardinal manager Steve Prutzer for putting all of this
together. Each team reporter/scorekeeper that inputs game summaries into
OTB will note the game selections for this award, and will not be
advertised during the course of the year, and the award will be
presented at this year's annual banquet.
Thanks, Steve for this wonderful tribute to Frank. A
tribute to Frank is available on this website.
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