'We do it without trying to be recognized': Francisco Lindor's years of quiet giving earn baseball's highest honour for humanity

Francisco Lindor arrived at the World Series in a tuxedo on Monday night — not to play, but to accept the Roberto Clemente Award, the honour Major League Baseball gives each year for character, community work and philanthropy. The New York Mets shortstop, who left Puerto Rico at 12 for school in Florida, has given more than $1 million since 2020 to the school that took him in, building Lindor Hall with its science and technology labs and funding scholarships for children who could not otherwise attend. With his wife Katia he backs children's hospitals and disability advocacy, mentors New York school students through his Lindor's Leaders program, hands out backpacks across Queens each autumn, and helped his hometown of Caguas recover after hurricanes. He is the fifth winner of Puerto Rican descent — following, as he put it, in the footsteps of the men he grew up idolizing.

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