The Gordon Cobbledick Golden Tomahawk Award was annually presented from 1962-2002 by the Cleveland Chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, usually to the Cleveland Indians player who was deemed the team's most underrated player. Gordon Cobbledick was a sports editor and journalist and for many years the Sports Editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper. Cobbledick also wrote about world affairs, and in World War II his story The Battle of Okinawa, became a model of reportage by foreign correspondents. Cobbledick, who passed away in 1969, was later posthumously awarded the J. G. Taylor Spinks Award. The Golden Tomahawk Award has been given to players such as Gaylord Perry (1973), Rick Sutcliffe (1989), and Travis Fryman (2000), and the granting of the award to a non-player was an honored exception. John Nagy had been the Cleveland Commissioner of Recreation since 1947. In the 1950s, Nagy created a competitive sports program for girls that became a model for other recreation programs around the country, and in 1968, it helped Madeline Manning Jackson to achieve her Olympic Gold Medal. Nagy was a member of the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame, the National Bowling Hall of Fame, and the National Softball Hall of Fame. The award measures 14.5x21.5". The actual tomahawk connected to the award is 14" long. There is an image of John Nagy on the award above his name, and the verbiage on the award reads, "In recognition of his many years of dedicated service to the people of our community, amateur athletics, baseball, and the Wahoo Club." The award is in excellent condition.