BBWAA Career Excellence Award

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". Template:Infobox sports award The BBWAA Career Excellence Award, formerly the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, is the highest award given by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA). It is given "for meritorious contributions to baseball writing" and voted on annually by the BBWAA.[1] Winners are typically announced in December, with the award presented at the Baseball Hall of Fame in July.

Recipients of the award are not members of the Hall of Fame—they are not "inducted" or "enshrined", they are not "Hall of Fame sportswriters", and there is no "writers' wing" of the Hall of Fame—they are officially "honorees."[2] The award is given at a separate ceremony from the induction ceremony on Hall of Fame weekend.[3] As with recipients of the Ford C. Frick Award for baseball broadcasting, the honorees are permanently recognized in a "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit in the Hall's library.[4]

The award was instituted in 1962 and named after J. G. Taylor Spink, publisher of The Sporting News from 1914 to 1962, and the award's first recipient. In February 2021, the BBWAA voted to remove his name from the award "due to Spink’s troubled history in supporting segregated baseball."[1][5][6]

Eligibility

The honoree does not have to be a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA), but every recipient from the award's 1962 inception through 2013 had been a BBWAA member at some time. The first recipient who had never been a BBWAA member was Template:Bhofy recipient Roger Angell.[7] Despite having written on baseball for more than a half-century, Angell never worked a specific baseball writing beat, thereby making him ineligible for BBWAA membership.

Veterans Committee role

For several years in the early 2000s, honorees became life members of the Veterans Committee, which elects players whose eligibility for BBWAA consideration has ended, and is also the sole body that elects non-players for induction into the Hall. Starting with elections for induction in Template:Bhofy, voting on the main Veterans Committee, which then selected only players whose careers began in 1943 or later, was restricted to Hall of Fame members. After further changes announced for the Template:Bhofy and Template:Bhofy elections, BBWAA Career Excellence Award winners are eligible to serve on all of the era-based voting bodies that succeeded the Veterans Committee (and are still colloquially referred to as such).

Recipients

Through 2006, the BBWAA designated honorees based on the announcement year (typically in December). In the below table, winners through 2006 are listed with both their announcement year, and their induction ceremony year (the ensuing summer). In 2007, the BBWAA changed the year designation for the award to coincide with the induction ceremony. Thus, while the official BBWAA year designations jump from 2006 to 2008, the award has been bestowed annually since inception, except for one year missed due to the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike.

From 1972 through 1981, there were multiple honorees each year. This again occurred in 1988 and 1992. Since that time, there has been a single winner each year.

Through 2010, the award was presented during the actual induction ceremony; since then, it has been presented at the Hall of Fame awards presentation, held the day before the induction ceremony. In recent years, the Hall of Fame has announced the finalists for the award and final vote totals. Previously, such detail was not made public, with only the winner announced.

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1963 recipient Ring Lardner
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1967 recipient Damon Runyon
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1975 recipient Shirley Povich
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2004 recipient Peter Gammons
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2014 recipient Roger Angell
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2019 recipient Jayson Stark
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2022 recipient Tim Kurkjian
Year Honoree Beat Ref.
Name Born Died
1962 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1888 1962 St. Louis [8]
1963 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1885 1933 Chicago [9]
1964 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1873 1945 Chicago [10]
1965 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1860 1931 Chicago [11]
1966 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1880 1954 New York City [12]
1967 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1880 1946 New York City [13]
1968 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1885 1958 Detroit [14]
1969 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1880 1945 New York City [15]
1970 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1888 1939 New York City [16]
1971 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1893 1965 New York City [17]
1972 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1890 1981 New York City [18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1888 1980 New York City [19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1892 1972 St. Louis [20]
1973 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1894 1978 Chicago [21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1891 1979 New York City [22]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1892 1981 New York City [23]
1974 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1902 1986 Chicago [24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1880 1946 Philadelphia [25]
1975 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1903 1964 New York City [26]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1905 1998 Washington, D.C. [27]
1976 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1909 1975 Boston [28]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1905 1982 New York City [29]
1977 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1898 1969 Cleveland [30]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1907 2002 Chicago [31]
1978 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1851 1917 Boston [32]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 1987 New York City [33]
1979 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 2005 St. Louis [34]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1903 1975 New York City [35]
1980 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 1988 New York City [36]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1922 1986 New York City [37]
1981 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916 2003 Philadelphia [38]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1910 1982 Washington, D.C. [39]
1982 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1909 1986 Dayton, Ohio [40]
1983 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1902 1991 New York City [41]
1984 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1926 2006 Kansas City, Missouri [42]
1985 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1923 2003 Cincinnati [43]
1986 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1921 2007 New York City [44]
1987 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1919 1998 Los Angeles [45]
1988 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1913 1993 Los Angeles [46]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1914 1988 Philadelphia [47]
1989 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1926 2008 Chicago [48]
1990 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1925 2001 San Diego [49]
1991 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1921 2001 Dayton, Ohio [50]
1992 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1923 2003 New York City [51]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1920 1989 Philadelphia [52]
1993 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1914 1972 Pittsburgh [53]
1994 (Template:Bhofy) (not presented) — — — Script error: No such module "String".
1995 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1924 2004 New York City [54]
1996 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1924 2014 New York City [55]
1997 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1903 2003 Washington, D.C. [56]
1998 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916 2002 San Francisco [57]
1999 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916 2005 Cleveland [58]
2000 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". Script error: No such module "sort". Los Angeles [59]
2001 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1928 2004 Detroit [60]
2002 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1940 Dayton, Ohio [61]
2003 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1938 New York City [62]
2004 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1945 Boston [63]
2005 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1951 Seattle, Kansas City, Dallas, Denver [64]
2006 (Template:Bhofy) Script error: No such module "Sort". 1946 2023 St. Louis [65]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1937 2007 Kansas City, Milwaukee, Boston [66]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1939 2015 San Francisco [67]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1946 New York City [68]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1934 2014 Philadelphia [69]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1949 Montreal / Toronto [70]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1951 Dallas–Fort Worth / Philadelphia [71]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1920 2022 The New Yorker [72]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1948 Detroit [73]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1953 Baltimore, Boston [74]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1954 New York City [75]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942 Akron, Ohio [76]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1951 Philadelphia [77]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1956 2019 Boston [78]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1939 St. Louis, Kansas City [79]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1956 Dallas, Baltimore, Sports Illustrated, ESPN.com [80]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". c. 1959 Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Detroit [81]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1954 2019 Dallas, Atlanta, The Sporting News [82]
Template:Bhofy Script error: No such module "Sort". 1947 Washington, D.C. [83]

Notes

This award should not be confused with the Topps Minor League Player of the Year Award, which was also known as the "J. G. Taylor Spink Award".

See also

References

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External links

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