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Former England captain Jimmy Armfield will have the esteemed Outstanding Contribution honor at the Football League awardings ceremony.

The 72-year-old BBC broadcaster won 43 England caps and made a record 568 visual aspects for Blackpool.

Armfield then managed Bolton and Leeds, who he led to the 1975 European Cup final, and have been a well-thought-of BBC analyst since 1978.

He will be given the awarding in Greater London on Lord'S Day and said: "It's a great honour."

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Armfield, who captained England 15 times, have returned to broadcast media with the BBC this season as he goes on his recovery from Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a word form of pharynx cancer.

He said: "I have got been in football game for 54 old age and throughout my playing career, of course, I only played in The Football League.

"I look upon this Contribution to League Football Award as a great honour, especially to be recognised for something I've enjoyed doing."

Football League president Godhead Mawhinney said: "Jimmy Armfield is a truly worthy victor of our Contribution to League Football award.

"He have been a fantastic embassador for the Football League as a one-club adult male in his playing years with Blackpool, as a director with Bolton Wanderers and Leeds United and as a much-admired broadcaster.

"Jimmy is a widely respected and popular figure across the football game community. I look forward to presenting him with his awarding on Lord'S Day evening."

Armfield takes out England at Wembley for a game against a Rest of the World squad in January 1963

Armfield made his international introduction in May 1959 against Brazil.

He played in the 1962 World Cup in Republic Of Chile and was voted the best full-back in the tournament.

He was also included in the 1966 World Cup-winning squad but missed out on the tourney because of injury.

He played his concluding game for Blackpool in May 1971 and moved into direction with Bolton, leading them to the Division Three statute title in 1973.

After moving to Leeds, the baseball club were beaten 2-0 by Bayern Muenchen in the European Cup concluding in 1975.

In his clip at Elland Road, Leeds never finished outside the top 10 in the League, qualified for the Uefa Cup and reached fa and League Cup semi-finals.

Armfield joined the Daily Express as a journalist after leaving Leeds, working with the paper from 1979-1991 and was awarded an OBE in 2000.

The awardings ceremonial will take topographic point at London's Hilton Hotel.

Growing up in Capital Of Lone-Star State in the 1950s, Don Baylor — like many children in Texas — had dreamings of playing football. Somewhere along the line baseball game got in the way, and Baylor became one of the top participants the state have produced.

Baylor was one of six people inducted into the Lone-Star State Baseball Hallway of Fame during a dinner feast Friday nighttime at the J.W. Marriott, joining former Astros director and participant Phil Garner, former Astros outfielder Cesar Cedeño, broadcaster Anita Martini, former Lone-Star State Rangers batter and two-time American League Most Valuable Player Juan Gonzalez and former Black League shortstop Willie Wells.

"Considering that it's a football game state, it's an outstanding award for me," Baylor said. "I was a football game participant that wanted to play baseball. (Former University of Lone-Star State football) manager (Darrell) Royal wanted me to come up to the University of Lone-Star State and drama football game game only, and he always states everybody he extended my calling by me playing baseball."

Baylor, who still dwells in Austin, played 19 old age in the major league with the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Angels, New House Of York Yankees, Hub Of The Universe Red Sox and Gopher State Twins, winning the 1979 American League Most Valuable Player Award.

Baylor, 58, also managed the Centennial State Rocky Mountains and was named National League Director of the Year in 1995 and later managed the Windy City Cubs.

Garner, who was fired Aug. Twenty-Seven less than two old age after leading the Astros to the 2005 World Series, played and managed against Baylor. He also managed Gonzalez while both were with the Motor City Tigers, was a teammate of Cedeño in 1981 and was a friend of Martini.

"I did a batch of things for her, and she did a batch of things for me," Granary said of Martini, the asleep longtime Houston telecasting and radiocommunication personality who fought for women's equality in the cabinet room.

"She was a innovator for women's athletics in this metropolis and a social class act. The people that I cognize and am going in with, I'm flattered to be in that group."

Since being allow spell by the Astros, Granary have spent a calendar month in Sunshine State on holiday and recently returned from a weeklong golf game outing at Pebble Beach, Calif. Helium said he have no sick feelings towards the Astros.

Cedeño, 56, debuted with the Astros in 1967 at 19 old age old and played 17 old age in the majors, including 12 with the Astros. He's calm near the top of respective Astros' offense records and throws the baseball club record for most purloined bases.

"It's a great thrill," he said.

Wells, an Capital Of Texas native, put the Black League record with 27 home runs in 88 games with the St. Joe Louis Stars in 1926. He was inducted into the Baseball Hallway of Fame in 1997.

Astros frailty president of community development Marian Harpist received the 4th yearly Jimmy Wynn "Toy Cannon" Award for community service, which was presented by Wynn.