MILWAUKEE -- The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is honoring Brewers general manager Doug Melvin as National League Executive of the Year.

Melvin and his American League counterpart -- Angels GM Tony Reagins -- will receive the Andrew "Rube" Foster Award and will be honored during a ceremony in Kansas City on Jan. 10, 2009, at the Gem Theater, a venue across the street from the baseball museum. Proceeds from the NLBM's Ninth Annual Legacy Awards will benefit the institution, which keeps alive the legacy of men and women who played, coached or owned teams when baseball was a segregated sport.

Melvin was the architect of a 2009 Brewers team that won the National League Wild Card, snapping the franchise's 26-year postseason drought. Melvin spent last offseason stocking the club mostly with veterans, including catcher Jason Kendall, center fielder Mike Cameron and reliever Salomon Torres.

But Melvin waited until July to make his biggest splash, landing CC Sabathia in a blockbuster trade with Cleveland. Sabathia went 11-2 in his 17 Brewers starts and pitched a complete game on the final day of the regular season, a win over the Cubs that helped send Milwaukee into the playoffs.

Melvin, the eighth GM in Brewers history, was named to his post on Sept. 26, 2002. He was formerly GM of the Texas Rangers, winning Baseball America's Major League Executive of the Year award in 1998 and American League Executive of the Year in 1996.