PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies chairman David Montgomery has been an important figure in Philadelphia for decades, and the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association is honoring him Feb. 1 at its 112th annual dinner in Cherry Hill, N.J., where he will be presented the Ed Snider Lifetime Distinguished Humanitarian Award.
The PSWA called Montgomery a "catalyst behind Phillies Charities, which … last year [raised] about $2 million in grants awarded to dozens of deserving charitable organizations."
"I don't think of myself as a humanitarian, but I do think of the team as such," Montgomery said in an interview posted at PSWAdinner.