2017 S.I. Sports Person of the Year

Tuesday morning Sports Illustrated revealed its choices for their 2017 Sports Person of the Year, and baseball is front and center with World Series Champion and America League MVP Jose Altuve.

Altuve is Co-Person of the Year with Houston Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt.

Altuve and Watt were vital to the City of Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated the City to the tune of $200 plus million dollars in damage when it hit the coast of Texas in late August.

Altuve led the Astros to the 1st Series Championship in the franchise's 55 years of existence, helping bring together the Houston community when they needed it most.

Altuve is the 17th big league baseball player to be selected as the S.I. SOTY, starting in 1955 when World Series MVP Johnny Podres of the Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1st championship for the Borough of Brooklyn.

Altuve joins Podres, Stan Musial(1957), Sandy Koufax(1965), Carl Yastzemski(1967), Tom Seaver(1969), Pete Rose(1975), Willie Stagell(1979), Dale Murphy(1986), Oreo Hershiser(1988), Cam Ripken(1995), Mark McGwire/Sammy Sosa(1998), Randy Johnson/Curt Schilling (2001), Derek Jeter(2009), and Madison Bumgarner(2014).


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