New York, NY (My Sportsbook) - San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds and Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez have won the 2002 Hank Aaron Award for the National and American Leagues. The award recognizes the best overall hitter in each league as voted on by the play-by-play broadcasters and color analysts of each team's radio and television rightsholders.

Both players also won the honor for the 2001 season.

The Hank Aaron Award was first given out in 1999 to recognize the 25th Anniversary of Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home run record.

Bonds, 38, hit .370 this season to become the oldest player ever to win a National League batting title. He set single-season records with 198 walks, 68 intentional free passes and a .582 on-base percentage. Bonds was second in the NL with 46 homers and sixth with 110 RBI.

Vladimir Guerrero of Montreal, Lance Berkman of Houston, Sammy Sosa of the Cubs, Albert Pujols of St. Louis, Colorado's Larry Walker and Todd Helton, and Brian Giles of Pittsburgh also received votes for the National League award.

Rodriguez led the major leagues in home runs (57), RBI (142) and total bases (389). He also was second in the majors with 125 runs scored and fourth with a .623 slugging percentage.

Manny Ramirez of Boston, the Yankees' Alfonso Soriano and Jason Giambi, Magglio Ordonez of the White Sox, Jim Thome of Cleveland, Miguel Tejada of Oakland, Mike Sweeney of Kansas City, Garret Anderson of Anaheim and Ichiro Suzuki of Seattle also received votes for the American League award.