Hank Aaron Award is given to players disregarded as the top hitter as voted on by baseball fans and members of the media.
 In 1915, a baseball instructional manual pointed out that every single pitch, of which there are often more than two hundred in a game, involves an individual, one-on-one contest: "the pitcher and the batter in a battle of wits"
== Contemporary Baseball Era player ballot ==The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee met on December 4 at baseball's winter meetings in San Diego to consider candidates from the era beginning in 1980, players who have been retired at least fifteen years and played most of their careers after 1980

