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2013- Played for Team Italy in the 2013 World Baseball Classic Named National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame Athlete of the Year

On May 12, 2013, Rizzo agreed to a 7-year, $41 million deal. The deal includes two club options that could make the contract 9 years, $73 million. He was named for the Cubs finalist, for the national Heart and Hustle Award. He also, was named the Cubs finalist for the Roberto Clemente Award. He also placed 2nd for the Gold Glove award. Despite having an off-year in 2013, Rizzo showed good power, belting 23 homers and 40 doubles in 606 at bats with a .233 batting average.[28] [29]

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Rizzo started the 2012 season with the Triple-A Iowa Cubs. He again excelled in the minor leagues, batting .342 average with 23 home runs and 62 RBIs before being recalled by the Cubs on June 26.[25] Similar to his call-up in San Diego, he was expected to help a struggling offense.[26]

He became the first player in Cubs history to have three game-winning RBIs in his first five games with the team. He hit seven homers in July, the most by a Cubs rookie in a calendar month since Mel Hall hit nine in August 1983. He also led National League (NL) rookies that month in homers, hits (32), RBIs (17) and total bases (55). He ranked second among NL rookies in runs scored (14), and he was third with a .330 batting average, .375 on-base percentage and .567 slugging percentage. He was named the league's July Rookie of the Month.[27] The months of April and May he was named the Cubs Minor League Player of the month. He also, got named Chicago Cubs Player of the month for September. In July he was named National League Rookie. He received a Proclamation from the of the City of Parkland, by the mayor Michael Udine, declaring December 9th, 2012 as Anthony Rizzo's Day.

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Rizzo was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in April 2008.The survival rates for Hodgkin's lymphoma is about 90%. Anthony went through chemotherapy for six months. His grandma was also battling breast cancer, at the same time. On September 2, 2008, Rizzo's doctor gave him great news he was in "remission". He still had six weeks left of treatment and had some follow up testing. Finally, on November 18, 2008, Dr. Lossos, told Anthony he "could live a normal life" At the point Rizzo knew he wanted to be a role model, and help cancer patients and their families. In 2012, The Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation began. It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, benefiting cancer research and the families fighting the disease. .[2][39] He has an older brother, John, who was a lineman for the Florida Atlantic University footbll team.[2]