Scarsdale Little League Names Recipient of 2013 Michael H. Ludwig Sportsmanship Award

The Scarsdale Little League presented Mattingly (Mattie) Weirl, a Fourth Grader on the Rock Hounds with the Michael Ludwig Sportsmanship Award on Thursday June 20 at Crossway Field. The award was created by Scarsdale Little League in memory of fourth grade Little Leaguer Michael H. Ludwig who died from an undetected cardiac condition in 2007. Michael's parents, Ed Ludwig and Lisa Nelson, present the award to a 4th grade player who, like Mattie, shows a love for the game, great sportsmanship, and excellent skills. This year, Mattie displayed all of these qualities on the field. When being nominated by his coaches they highlighted Mattie's always-positive attitude, complete commitment, encouragement of his teammates, solid level of performance on the field with his mind in the game, and dedication to improve himself and the team by way of discipline.

Mattie's strong qualities go beyond the field. For the past three years Mattie and friends at his grade level have played a pick up baseball game at Edgewood school. The objective of playing the game is to raise money for Mattingly Charities, which was created to serve underprivileged youth by supporting programs, which promote baseball and softball participation in conjunction with other developmentally related activities.
Scarsdale Little League also would like to recognize Alex Almeida (Iron Pigs), Hudson Lafayette (Thunder), Shiv Mehra (Thunder) and Ethan Abraham (River Cats), who were also nominated by their coaches this year for the award.

The award was given to Mattie prior to the start of the 4th grade Championship Game, between the Sand Gnats and the Bats. The Sand Gnats won the 4th grade championship with a score of 3 to 1 over the Bats. Congratulations to Mattie, his family, his coaches and teammates on receiving the Michael Ludwig Sportsmanship Award.

Pictured at top: (from left to right)
Ivan Rodriguez, Scarsdale Little League Board member and 2013 4th grade
coordinator;
Lisa Nelson, Michael Ludwig's mother;
Mattie Weirl, Michael H. Ludwig Sportsmanship Award 2013 recipient;
Ed Ludwig, Michael Ludwig's father; and
Mike Greenberg, Scarsdale Little League Board Co-President.

To learn more about the Michael H. Ludwig Memorial Foundation go to:
http://www.michaelludwigfoundation.org
To learn more about Mattingly Charities go to:
http://www.mattinglycharities.org