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Hickok Belt

The S. Rae Hickok Belt was a trophy awarded to the top professional athlete of the year. It was awarded in honor of the founder of the Hickok Manufacturing Company of Rochester, New York, which made belt

Belt (clothing)

A belt is a flexible band, typically made of leather or heavy cloth, and worn around the waist. A belt supports trousers or other articles of clothing, and it serves for style and decoration....
s, hence the choice of a belt as a trophy.

The trophy was an alligator

Alligator

An Alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The name alligator is an anglicization form of the Spanish language el lagarto , the name by which early Spain explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator....
-skin belt with a solid gold

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
buckle, an encrusted 4 carat (800 mg) diamond

Diamond

In mineralogy, diamond is the Allotropes of carbon where the carbon atoms are arranged in an isometric-hexoctahedral crystal lattice. After graphite, diamond is the second most stable form of carbon....
, and 26 gem chips. It was valued at over $10,000 in the currency of the time.

For the first 21 years, from 1950 to 1970, it was awarded in Rochester.

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Tandy Corporation

Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas, which is best known for purchasing and giving its name to the Fort Worth, Texas-based RadioShack....
, the award was made in larger cities such as Chicago or New York.

Sandy Koufax

Sandy Koufax

Sanford Koufax is an United States left-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Los Angeles Dodgers, from to ....
was the only two-time winner. The last award was made in 1976.

Winners

Year	Winner	Sport
1950 1950 in sports Athletics...	Phil Rizzuto Phil Rizzuto Philip Francis Rizzuto , nicknamed "The Scooter", was an United States shortstop in Major League Baseball who spent his entire career from 1941 to 1956 with the New York Yankees....	baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score run by hitting a thrown Baseball with a baseball bat and touching a series of four markers called base arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against...
1951 1951 in sports 1951 in sports saw Joe DiMaggio's retirement from major league baseball and Ben Hogan win back-to-back majors in golf....	Allie Reynolds Allie Reynolds Allie Pierce Reynolds was a pitcher in Major League Baseball.He was born in Bethany, Oklahoma, the son of a strict preacher. His nickname of the Superchief came because he was one quarter Creek Native Americans in the United States ....	baseball
1952 1952 in sports Auto racingNASCAR Championship - Tim FlockCART:Troy Ruttman won the Indianapolis 500Chuck Stevenson won the season championship*Formula One - Alberto Ascari of Italy...	Rocky Marciano Rocky Marciano Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit , remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career....	boxing Boxing Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
1953 1953 in sports Athletics...	Ben Hogan Ben Hogan William Ben Hogan was an United States professional golfer, and is generally considered one of the greatest golfers in the history of the game....	golf Golf Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
1954 1954 in sports Artistic Gymnastics1954 World Artistic Gymnastics ChampionshipsMen's all-around champion: Viktor Chukarin, USSR*Women's all-around champion: Galina Rud'ko, USSR...	Willie Mays	baseball
1955 1955 in sports Athletics...	Otto Graham Otto Graham Otto Everett Graham, Jr. was a professional American football and basketball player who played for the Cleveland Browns in both the All-America Football Conference and National Football League, as well as the Sacramento Kings in the National Basketball League ....	football American football American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
1956 1956 in sports Athletics...	Mickey Mantle Mickey Mantle Mickey Charles Mantle was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.He played his entire 18-year major-league professional career for the New York Yankees, winning 3 American League MVP titles and playing for 16 Major League Baseball All-Star Game teams....	baseball
1957 1957 in sports Athletics...	Carmen Basilio Carmen Basilio Carmine Basilio, born April 2 1927 in Canastota, New York, better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is a former boxer of Italy-United States origin....	boxing
1958 1958 in sports Artistic gymnastics1958 World Artistic Gymnastics ChampionshipsMen's all-around champion: Boris Shakhlin, USSR*Women's all-around champion: Larissa Latynina, USSR...	Bob Turley Bob Turley Robert Lee Turley was a Major League Baseball pitcher.Turley was signed as an amateur free agent by the Baltimore Orioles#St. Louis Browns in ....	baseball
1959 1959 in sports Athletics...	Ingemar Johansson Ingemar Johansson Jens Ingemar Johansson was a Swedish people Boxing and former List of Heavyweight Champions. He defeated Floyd Patterson to win the World Heavyweight Championship....	boxing
1960 1960 in sports Athletics Marathon * December 4 — Fukuoka Marathon, Japan*Men's Winner: Barry Magee 2:19:04Auto racingStock car racing:...	Arnold Palmer Arnold Palmer Arnold Daniel Palmer is an United States professional golfer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golfer....	golf
1961 1961 in sports Athletics...	Roger Maris Roger Maris Roger Eugene Maris was an United States right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record , in 1961 Major League Baseball season, a record that would stand for 37 years....	baseball
1962 1962 in sports Artistic Gymnastics1962 World Artistic Gymnastics ChampionshipsMen's all-around champion: Yuri Titov, USSR*Women's all-around champion: Larissa Latynina, USSR...	Maury Wills Maury Wills Maurice Morning Wills is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and switch-hitter batter who played most prominently with the Los Angeles Dodgers , and also with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Montreal Expos ....	baseball
1963 1963 in sports Athletics...	Sandy Koufax Sandy Koufax Sanford Koufax is an United States left-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Los Angeles Dodgers, from to ....	baseball
1964 1964 in sports Athletics...	Jim Brown Jim Brown James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an United States former professional American football player who has also made his mark as an actor and social activist....	football
1965 1965 in sports Auto racingStock car racing:Fred J. Lorenzen wins the Daytona 500NASCAR Championship - Ned JarrettIndianapolis 500 - Jim Clark *CART - Mario Andretti...	Sandy Koufax Sandy Koufax Sanford Koufax is an United States left-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Los Angeles Dodgers, from to ....	baseball
1966 1966 in sports Artistic Gymnastics1966 World Artistic Gymnastics ChampionshipsMen's all-around champion: Mikhail Voronin, USSR*Women's all-around champion: Vera C?slavsk?, Czechoslovakia...	Frank Robinson Frank Robinson Frank Robinson , is a former Major League Baseball player. He was an outfielder, most notably with the Cincinnati Reds and the Baltimore Orioles....	baseball
1967 1967 in sports Athletics...	Carl Yastrzemski Carl Yastrzemski Carl Michael Yastrzemski...	baseball
1968 1968 in sports Athletics...	Joe Namath Joe Namath Joseph William Namath , also known as Broadway Joe or Joe Willie, is a former United States American football quarterback. He played for the University of Alabama under legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his assistant, Howard Schnellenberger, from 1962?1964, and in the American Football League and National Football League duri...	football
1969 1969 in sports Athletics...	Tom Seaver Tom Seaver George Thomas Seaver is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher who broke into the major leagues in and retired in . He played for four different teams in his career, but is primarily associated with the New York Mets....	baseball
1970 1970 in sports Artistic Gymnastics1970 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships:Men's all-around champion: Eizo Kenmotsu, Japan*Women's all-around champion: Ludmilla Tourischeva, USSR...	Brooks Robinson Brooks Robinson Brooks Calbert Robinson, Jr. is an United States former third baseman in Major League Baseball. He played his entire 23-year career with the Baltimore Orioles ....	baseball
1971 1971 in sports Athletics...	Lee Trevino Lee Trevino Lee Buck Trevino is an American professional golfer. He is an icon for Mexican Americans, and is often referred to as "The Merry Mex" and "Supermex"....	golf
1972 1972 in sports Athletics...	Steve Carlton Steve Carlton Steven Norman Carlton is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, from to . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in . He was affectionately known to Philadelphia fans as "Lefty"....	baseball
1973 1973 in sports Athletics...	O.J. Simpson	football
1974 1974 in sports Artistic Gymnastics1974 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships:Men's all-around champion: Shigeru Kasamatsu, Japan*Women's all-around champion: Ludmilla Tourischeva, USSR...	Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....	boxing
1975 1975 in sports Athletics...	Pete Rose Pete Rose Peter Edward "Pete" Rose, Sr. , nicknamed Charlie Hustle, is a former player and Manager in Major League Baseball. Rose played from to , best known for his many years with the Cincinnati Reds....	baseball
1976 1976 in sports Athletics...	Ken Stabler Ken Stabler Ken "Kenny" Michael Stabler , nicknamed "The Snake", is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Oakland Raiders , the Tennessee Titans , and the New Orleans Saints ....	football

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