Athletic Club Sports Personality of the Year (2015) 6× National League Central division title winner (2000, 2002, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2015) 2× National League pennant winner (2004, 2013) 4× Rawlings Gold Glove Award at catcher (2000, 2003–05) Willie Mac Award (2005) Personal life Matheny's wife, Kristen, is a former field hockey player at the University of Michigan. They have five children together. Their oldest son, Tate, played college baseball at Missouri State University and was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 4th round of the 2015 MLB Draft. Their daughter, Katie, played ice hockey at Ohio State,. To date, two of the younger Matheny sons have played baseball collegiately—Luke for Saint Louis University and Blaise for Missouri State University. Matheny majored in sports management and communications with an emphasis in Spanish. Matheny routinely chronicles his life experiences and maintains a blog of which topics includes leadership and changing the culture of youth sports. He is a devout Christian, often including Bible verse citations when he signs autographs. Charity work Matheny organized and created Catch-22, a charitable organization (named for his playing position and uniform number) which donated tickets for Cardinals games between 2002 and 2004. In 2005, Matheny opened the Catch-22 Miracle Field at the Chesterfield Valley Athletic complex in Chesterfield, Missouri. The field has a completely flat and firm rubber surface and other features to allow children with a wide array of physical and mental handicaps to participate. Real estate Unprofitable real estate transactions left Matheny heavily in debt. In 2005, Matheny founded MPD Partnership with two former professional indoor soccer players, Daryl Doran and Brett Phillips. They purchased a block of the WingHaven development in St. Charles and realized a $2.4 million profit in six months. After Doran left the partnership to start a gym, Matheny and Phillips used their money to secure an $11.8 million loan from the Business Bank of St. Louis for an 11-acre tract near Interstate 64. That investment lost money, at least partially due to the financial crisis of 2007–08, and Matheny wound up more than $4 million in debt. In May 2010, he wrote to the Business Bank to say that he would not repay the remainder of the loan. The bank sued him one month later. In 2010, he lost a 17-room house in Wildwood, Missouri, following insolvency on two commercial plots in near Chesterfield Valley. Matheny's attorney, Robert